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Date:         Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:08:54 -0800 (PST)
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From:         "Tobin T. Copley" <tobin@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca>
Subject:      Re: searching for potable water pump

On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Mark M. Schirmer wrote:

> [I] found a 2.5 amp 500gpm bilge pump at a hardware store... > and smaller ones, too (150, and 300 gpm)...

Hoo boy! *500* GALLONS per minute!! The potabe water tank is, what, 6 gallons or so? That sucker'd drain the tank in... 1.2 seconds!!

'Course, you could hook it up to a water-pistol kinda thing and bore holes right through people with it...

Seriously, I have a 1.5 gpm electric pump I installed in my westy after the DPO had left the water to freeze with a full tank (cracked the pump), and 1.5 gpm is uncomfortably high output. I'd love to find an elagant little rheostat so I could control the speed of the pump and keep splashing down. Even with 1.5 gpm, the usual way of using the sink is to do a space invaders type trigger button finger twitch: onoff, onoff.

IMHO, even 150 gpm has great potential for physical humour, but not much else.

Tobin

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