Got the drum opened as plan and it was quite easy after getting some experience opening the big drum for the fish tank. Incidentally, the 2 pieces of hack saw broke while I was cutting the fish tank, they were really brittle and snap real easy. I took the blade from my hack saw and used it ..... have to make a note to get another for spare.
After having done that, there was about another two hours to dinner and not wanting to do weeding, I started going through my old stuffs to look for pipe fitting. I guess the itching was too great to be suppressed.
After digging around for awhile, I found my old surf-casting fishing rod holder which I made from pipe fittings and broom handle. Since I had not gone fishing for a very long while now I decided to dismantle it and make use of the parts together with whatever left over pvc pipes and fittings I had collected over the years from my house maintenance.
Luck was with me cause there was a short section of the 42mm dia. pipe, cut of the broken end and got a length that should be ideal. The fit was perfect, I have to tap it in quite a bit.
I did not have reduction elbow of the right size so I have to make use of reduction joint before the reduction elbow.
I tried making use of the design that I thought of earlier but was unable to do so cause it was either unworkable or there was not enough hardware. I decided to do a quick fix and make use of a section of my old PVC flexible hose.
HEY!!! IT WORKED!!! Not only it worked, it worked real well. I guess making use of flexible hose would be more flexible for me to set up the return piping.
This is the remaining water from the backwash when the siphon was broken. I guess it is a acceptable amount of water left over.
Now to make a shopping list to get all the grow beds fitted so that I can get on with setting up the water feed and return piping.
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