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02-01-2021, 06:16 PM #301
Another video update / garden waffle for you all.
https://youtu.be/Z8ahHpXsm5ALast edited by GadgetBazza; 02-01-2021 at 09:24 PM.
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02-01-2021, 06:21 PM #302
And today I spent some time making a Frankenstein of an airlift...
video in 3 parts.
https://youtu.be/3WkouwNI5iM
https://youtu.be/8cxKXU6Dr4c
https://youtu.be/vLkjGCL0pvgLast edited by GadgetBazza; 02-01-2021 at 09:25 PM. Reason: Added YouTube hyperlinks
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02-01-2021, 06:32 PM #303
And a couple of pictures of the drill hole process with a 1mm drill bit.
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02-01-2021, 07:09 PM #304
Air lift ??? Can’t work out what that means lol seriously I can’t. Looks like it’s going to provide air to your bio chamber ??
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02-01-2021, 07:11 PM #305
Hi Bazza, vids link are not linking
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02-01-2021, 08:55 PM #306
I just checked the videos on my wife’s computer and they showed up? Do the embedded YouTube links not work on TapaTalk?
Airlifts are a way of pumping water using air rather than pumps. If you google it or you tube it you’ll see better versions than mine I’m sure!
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02-01-2021, 09:16 PM #307
All your others have worked, probably just my phone. Thanks Bazza
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02-01-2021, 09:18 PM #308
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02-01-2021, 09:23 PM #309
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02-01-2021, 09:29 PM #310
Links added
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02-01-2021, 09:32 PM #311
Brilliant
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02-01-2021, 10:37 PM #312
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02-01-2021, 10:42 PM #313
Yeah it is. Cant really work on the garden part really. But we’re trying to work around it where we can, but it is frustrating when you keep caking stuff in mud!
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02-01-2021, 11:15 PM #314
Hi Bazza.
I had the same issue trying to find the right materials to create an air chamber for an air lift.
Looks like you have a solution now, but if you want other ideas...
I used 110mm waste for the air lift pipe, as you suggest to do. I had 4 rows of holes, each row 1cm apart and each hole 1cm apart around the pipe. All with a 1mm drill bit.
I then got a 125mm pressure pipe straight coupler from here: https://www.gasandwaterpipelines.co....7/G105125.html
And two clay to pvc rubber boots from Toolstation .https://www.toolstation.com/flexible...-to-pvc/p54240
I drilled a hole in the straight coupler (using trial and error on scrap pressure pipe, like you did) then glued a 1" pressure elbow into it.
Then it was just a case of pushing the wider end of the rubber boots over each end of the socket (it was tight, so left the jubilee clips off and put the boots in hot water first to help get them on). They sit very snuggly and no air leaks.
The pro to this approach means the air chamber can be taken off the air lift pipe if you need to tweak it, add more holes, swap the pipe out etc. The only real con is the boots will need replacing at some point, but should be easy enough to do and cheap enough.
Having run an airlift for a while, what I would suggest is make sure the airlifts go all the way down to the bottom of the chamber they sit in, to avoid muck settling out in it.
Secondly, I found the best way to sit the airlift on the chamber bottom without restricting flow into the bottom of the pipe, is to just cut the bottom of the airlift at a 45 ISH degree angle. So the pipe will sit on the peak cut, leaving the opening clear to suck water in.
Finally, I'd suggest having dedicated air pumps for your air lifts. I use a hi blow 80xp to run the air lift and a bio chamber but find it difficult to tweak flows.
I find around 40w per airlift is enough. Anything more powerful and you are probably just wasting power.
Hope that helps and keep us posted on progress.
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04-01-2021, 12:07 AM #315
Thanks for the updates this is one of those projects we all wish we could be in with
Not just pond but the pool, garden, decks and patios
will look great when finished can't wait
Keep up the good work and here's hoping 2021 is better to you
By the way that is a proper Man cave /shed, all the toys
1000 gal
2 x Hozelock 6000ltr 9W UV
Allpond Spin Filter 8000 11W UV
Blagdon pond oxy 640 ltr/hr
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04-01-2021, 12:54 AM #316
Thanks @Wain
We have to be on the home stretch now, although home stretch is probably about 5 months for this project!
Apart from sorting the drainage issues on the east side of the garden - the area not really tackled thus far, I think we have most things under control. The guys are away for 2-3 weeks so just me doing bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks and then we will pick up again. Just hope the weather is good to us really.
Must admit, I love having the tools in the shed. It’s been a godsend from the early days for storing materials and the digger. Ideally it would be more useable throughout the project but still there is very little usable working space as you can see because it’s so full of “stuff” (if you can include a 3 ton digger under stuff?!) which does of course include a nice selection of toys/tools. I’m no woodworker, but I would love to spend some time making some bits and pieces, so since we’ve needed some various bits during the project I’ve gotten a bit carried away at times and splashed out on tools in the hope that I will have time to play with them at some point in the future!
My uses are better driven at how to go about doing something, eg the materials and design of how to build something rather than actually building stuff as my DIY skills are pretty crap, hopefully they will be better by the time I’m finished here!
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04-01-2021, 01:06 AM #317
Practise makes perfect
Give it a go I say you may find a dormant skill . . . or NOT but you will definitely have fun on the way
I have built Three of the large Technic LEGO cars over Xmas / New year and now wanna be a mechanic found them really good fun
as H & S man I just walk around criticising people no skills as such pmsl
I dont really HONEST I encourage and chat1000 gal
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Allpond Spin Filter 8000 11W UV
Blagdon pond oxy 640 ltr/hr
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05-01-2021, 12:25 PM #318
This is the best Air Lift video I've found if anyone is interested, Part one and two below with sub titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGaYHJSVLM&t=34s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Lywn8fAgc
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06-01-2021, 12:46 AM #319
I agree those videos were the first ones I saw that explained the concept of an air lift and how to build one.
So Bazza have got one up and running yet? Will you be getting flow meters to see how much water they'll shift?
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06-01-2021, 11:18 PM #320
So I watched similar videos, same presenter and building the same lift, but it was the presenter and the guy next to him at the start of the second video. So the one I saw was on Aquatechnobel channel and they were speaking in English. Otherwise exactly the same for the airlift piece. I hadn't seen the second video with them forming collars, but I have seen that presentation of the airlift pump running and his reverse sieve.
I have in fact built my first air lift, it is a chunky monkey by comparison because of the size of the air chamber I have made. I have a bigger chamber and more holes than they do, but I'm not sure if that will impact anything.
However, I haven't had a chance to try it yet as yet. Unfortunately (and for those of you who have followed the thread from the outset will know), I have had a pretty fair share of bad luck thus far on this project.
Following our issue 2 weeks ago with excess water nearly entering the basement that the fire brigade supported us in, on Monday, a burst water main 200 yards up the road filled the ditches in the night, overwhelmed my pumping station and I spent Monday with the fire brigade defending my basement from flooding. Unfortunately we weren't completely successful, the basement has been compromised again after the original significant flood from over 4 and a half years ago. Fortunately because of all the hands on site, we have had no more than a few millimetres of water inside at any time and as such only really got wet carpets which I have had dried by a professional cleaning company this morning.
Since we live fairly remotely, no one else was affected by the water main and it was actually me that discovered it when we were trying to ascertain why there was so much water as there hadn't been an overnight downpour. The burst water main being the obvious problem. In addition to that, the ditched seem to have filled very easily and it looks like we have now identified a blockage in the piped ditch section on the property next door which is preventing the water in the ditch from flowing freely, so that has to be investigated, and replaced. It looks like an old 8 inch clay pipe with a load of trees over it, so it's probably crushed to bits as it's a very old house next door.
So although I already knew 2021 wasn't going to be a great start with lockdown but I wasn't expecting this.
Im actually knackered at the moment, I was woken up by the pump alarms in the early hours of Tuesday morning and despite my best efforts with extra pumps etc it was clear that I was just circulating water back to the ditch, so I called the fire brigade in. I worked solid with help from some friends keeping water out of the basement until 9:30pm which was basically a relay race of us sucking up water with vax machines into buckets and carrying them outside. The fire brigade left around 6pm after they had moved all the ditch water to the other side of the road and the water board had shut the mains off.
Ive then spent all of today with my digger driver ripping up the ground where the sunken ditch pipes are to discover that the problem its not on my property but next door.... This does at least explain why we were so nearly impacted after heavy rainfall two weeks ago. Maybe it played a part 4 years ago too as that was after heavy rain too.
What a shite couple of days
Running heater at low temp?
Covering the pond with polycarb should be enough to stop water temps dipping below 6C for the most...