Clean It Up
UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: *Derek* on February 16, 2012, 12:05:39 pm
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Well lads,
I have a job coming up where i must pump dirty water out of a tunnel. I have done it before using industrial hoover but we had to keep emptying it so i'm wanting something faster. Would a water pump be suitable and if so can they run dry for long. We also used a subermissable pump but it kept clogging or else water was too shallow..
Any suggestions or experience to share?
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Hi mate, thats always a prob with submersibles as they need a min hd...
sounds like you need a vac incorporating a submersible that way its not a problem when its dry, plus you can vac & pump out continiously ;D shame ur not local one off would lend u ours!
Why not modify your industrial vac to incorporate submersible ? we did that to an old numatic wd900 worked ok for one offs.
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Puddle pump will snore down to virtually nothing - about £80 from machine mart
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or you could get a mud suck attatchment for your pressure washer -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gXVtIcqKY
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or you could get a mud suck attatchment for your pressure washer -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gXVtIcqKY
Well never seen one of them b4! how the ... does the washer run dry ? or is there still water flow from the washer ??
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it works like a venturi, similar to a chemical intake on your pressure washer, your pressure water puts water through it and the venturi part sucks the water up, I think it's runs at your litres per minute x 10, ie if you have a 15 litres per minute machine the water it can take up is 150 litres per minute - 15lpm x 10 = 150lpm
great bit of kit for draining blocked manholes etc
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it works like a venturi, similar to a chemical intake on your pressure washer, your pressure water puts water through it and the venturi part sucks the water up, I think it's runs at your litres per minute x 10, ie if you have a 15 litres per minute machine the water it can take up is 150 litres per minute - 15lpm x 10 = 150lpm
great bit of kit for draining blocked manholes etc
Would I be right in thinking .....if you used the washer initially and then turned it off the water would then syphon at a slower rate obviously ;D ??? or would it suck into machine (must / maybe has a return valve to stop this mmm) ...mmm questions questions ;D
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There is no non return valve and it would only act as a syphon if the source you were drawing from was equal higher than the source your draining it to.... ie you couldn't syphon a pond below ground level into a source above ground level.... i think....??
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I'll have one of them! :o
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anybody got a link cant find them on ebay
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PRESSURE-WASHER-DIRTY-WATER-PUMP-INTERPUMP-LAVOR-WESLEY-/170549016095?pt=UK_Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item27b583761f
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Yeah I got one of them, work really well, will drain a puddle on a surface down to about an inch, and very quickly too, excellent bit of kit to have in your van.
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Just spotted this... look at the price... do you think this is the same, it says drain cleaner on the listing
http://www.northerntooluk.com/pressure-washer-accessories/nozzles/1_4-3x08-drain-cleaner-nozzle_22363E.html?fhsearchterm=pressure+washere
unfortunately they're out of stock :(
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Awater pump can be use but they cannot run for long time.
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Try these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140538780973&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
;D ;D ;D
Kev
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Try these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140538780973&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
;D ;D ;D
Kev
Very nice piece of kit mate