[L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner]

Just a further thought about us fella`s who`s remote controls don`t work as good as they might.
What Ian Giles has mentioned is a good idea perhaps,but taking it further what about this.
Does anyone know of or could reccomend some kind of very strong clamp or `pinch valve perhaps
that could be carried in your pocket or somewhere on your person that  could be used when needed.
A very sophisticated bull dog clip comes to my  immeadiate mind. Because most pumps can be run dry
without damage etc.Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,I just thought I`d enquire,,,,,,,any takers???



Lewis  Doubtfire,
Gleem Clean  ( Blade  Runner )

[WavieDavie]

Lewis,

I don't know what diameter hose you use, and I haven't done much of a search, but how about putting something like this  . . . http://www.garden4less.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=2704  in the hose at just about where it would match up with the bottom of the pole?

[silverfox]

using something like that sounds like a really good idea!! just one thing..with the pump still running would still cause it any damage??

[dave_carroll]

silverfox,
              i've got peters system and if i'm right the flow lever isn't actually a flow lever but a restrictor, (being prepared to be shot down in flames  ) the water is picked up & pumped out and it wants to find the easiest way out so if the lever is wide open the water goes to the brush head but as he has cleverly put a loop in the circuit when the lever is shut off (pipe bent or clipped)then the water goes round the other part of the circuit back into the pump and round and round etc. so i think that the pump would run as normal without damage.
 does that make sense to anyone?
        hope so
                      dave carroll

[Ian_Giles]

Sure does to me Dave, Peter told me the same thing (or similar) as the pump is demand feed, even when you have it pumping flat out and pinch of the supply, the pump stops altogether, with the flow restricted by the valve it continues to pump the water in a circuit, I think back to its source if I understood Peter correctly.

Now I'm going to check out that link in an earlier posting

Ian

[Ian_Giles]

Ahh, checked out link, was exactly what I was thinking off in a reply to the other posting, but I love the idea of an external clamp, you wouldn't be restricted to a fixed point in your hoseline.
I have my invention head attached, currently being fueled and fortified by a bottle of rosé wine : :
Unfortunately this gives your invention head the equivalent 'beer goggles' Your fantastic ideas, scrawled on a post it pad, and looking like a rock solid way of making your first of many millions, turns into complete garbage when you crack open a bleary, bloodshot eye in the morning, peel the post it off your wife's  a s s and attempt to read your stunning idea. (When you have managed to decypher it of course :-/ :-/)

Ian

[L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner]

Andy and Ian,good thinking.Those crocadile clips sound a good idea.A clamp system is the way
to go I recon.Inline connectors are no good because they are fixed,this is something Jeff Brimble
mentioned some time ago.Those web sites Willie Davie mentioned as they illustrate pipe clampers,
they look oaky but are American.


Lewis Doubtfire, Gleem Clean ( Blade Runner )

[WavieDavie]

Those web sites Willie Davie mentioned as they illustrate pipe clampers, they look oaky but are American

Ahem, cough cough. . .  

http://www.garden4less.CO.UK/proddetail.asp?prod=2704  

Garden4Less.co.uk,
140 Main Street,
Repton,
Derbyshire,
DE65 6FB,