Jeff95531
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- Feb 10, 2013
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It's been awhile since I've contributed much here. Those who know me know that 2015 has been one of "those" years. The "sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes the bug" years. I'm slowly winning the war but $$$ just keeps flying out and I'm constantly playing defense...just waiting for the next calamity. The kind of time you could use a friend...
And then... I get a pm from a member. We chat back and forth then he texts that he'll be scouting out some new territory and wanted to share some of his diggins with me on the way back. I say sounds good.
The next afternoon (yesterday) while I'm grabbing a late lunch, Karen says she hears a truck outside. I keep eating and I get a text. I keep eating (I was HUNGRY OK?) when Karen says there's someone out at our picnic table. I go out to find none other than Mike (AKA delnorter) dropping off a bag of goodies like a Santa in July. He mentioned the general vicinity and what to expect if I go and with that he turned and in a blink of an eye he was gone.
Fade to Today...
I don't tend to run around much on weekends. We have most places to ourselves during the week so we hang close to home. So, I was outside scoping out my new bag of dirt and web covered sluice. (The last time I had worked on the sluice, the truck was in the shop in town and the LeTrap was locked up in the back.) As I went to get the LeTrap, I noticed I had all the materials I needed to make a filter for my 2200 GPH pump...something that was on the to do list from last year.
So I built it and here it is:
(BTW, the "other Jeff" GoldenIrishman gave me the idea for the filter...tyvm
)
You'll need some 1/2" hardware cloth and some window screen. Package of strap ties too.
And add a set of needle nose pliers to this
I used a plastic coffee container as a template as it was slightly larger than the pump. (I used it because my workbench was my tailgate and I didn't want to drop the pump.)
Rough cut your hardware cloth
I originally was going to cover the entire pump but the outlet was in the way. That's when I realized only the part below the outlet needed to be filtered...so I cut again, leaving extra at the bottom to keep the pump off the bottom.
On my pump, there is a heavy duty tab on the side. All I had to do was remove one wire, wrap it around the pump, cut another wire and it was together
Strap tie the ends, pull everything tight and trim the excess. Note how long the bottom wires are...there's a reason.
Now flip the pump upside down, grab your window screen, pull it tight and push down on those sharp little legs. Fold in each one (PITA) and as you do, the screen tightens even more.
Flip the pump upright, gather up the excess screen and cut to fit
Once I was happy with the size, i was unhappy with the little alum shreds of screen falling off the edges. So I Gorilla taped all around.
Flip the pump, squeeze the screen down tight around the pump and strap tie the screen to the top row of the hardware cloth.
Flip it over and begin work on the other side
I chose to fold the excess like a present and strap tied it again.
And done!
Pretty? No. Functional? We'll see.
Stay tuned for more great things to come...
And then... I get a pm from a member. We chat back and forth then he texts that he'll be scouting out some new territory and wanted to share some of his diggins with me on the way back. I say sounds good.
The next afternoon (yesterday) while I'm grabbing a late lunch, Karen says she hears a truck outside. I keep eating and I get a text. I keep eating (I was HUNGRY OK?) when Karen says there's someone out at our picnic table. I go out to find none other than Mike (AKA delnorter) dropping off a bag of goodies like a Santa in July. He mentioned the general vicinity and what to expect if I go and with that he turned and in a blink of an eye he was gone.
Fade to Today...
I don't tend to run around much on weekends. We have most places to ourselves during the week so we hang close to home. So, I was outside scoping out my new bag of dirt and web covered sluice. (The last time I had worked on the sluice, the truck was in the shop in town and the LeTrap was locked up in the back.) As I went to get the LeTrap, I noticed I had all the materials I needed to make a filter for my 2200 GPH pump...something that was on the to do list from last year.
So I built it and here it is:
(BTW, the "other Jeff" GoldenIrishman gave me the idea for the filter...tyvm
)
You'll need some 1/2" hardware cloth and some window screen. Package of strap ties too.
And add a set of needle nose pliers to this
I used a plastic coffee container as a template as it was slightly larger than the pump. (I used it because my workbench was my tailgate and I didn't want to drop the pump.)
Rough cut your hardware cloth
I originally was going to cover the entire pump but the outlet was in the way. That's when I realized only the part below the outlet needed to be filtered...so I cut again, leaving extra at the bottom to keep the pump off the bottom.
On my pump, there is a heavy duty tab on the side. All I had to do was remove one wire, wrap it around the pump, cut another wire and it was together
Strap tie the ends, pull everything tight and trim the excess. Note how long the bottom wires are...there's a reason.
Now flip the pump upside down, grab your window screen, pull it tight and push down on those sharp little legs. Fold in each one (PITA) and as you do, the screen tightens even more.
Flip the pump upright, gather up the excess screen and cut to fit
Once I was happy with the size, i was unhappy with the little alum shreds of screen falling off the edges. So I Gorilla taped all around.
Flip the pump, squeeze the screen down tight around the pump and strap tie the screen to the top row of the hardware cloth.
Flip it over and begin work on the other side
I chose to fold the excess like a present and strap tied it again.
And done!
Pretty? No. Functional? We'll see.
Stay tuned for more great things to come...
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