I’m using a pesticide sprayer (plastic, 1 gallon) for a project that doesn’t involve pesticides or chemicals. I need to pump it 150 times each time before releasing the air. How many times can I pump it before whatever will happen happens?
This is actually going to be used for a movie to simulate blood splatter from a gunshot and is a well known method so a lot of people are getting 150 pumps without problems. I’m surprised there haven’t been many decent answers yet.
My husband has been working for a company remodeling mobile homes. When he applied for the job, they told him he needed basic tools. He has been working there for six months, and the owner came last week and made an list of tools required for the job. There are 37 items listed on the list such as pipe wrenchs, Pump of Sprayer, Dust Pan with Broom, Crescent Wrenches (of all three sizes), Wood Chisel, Sledge Hammer, Wonder Bar, Hopper Gun and compressor (3H.P. Pancake), and the list goes on and on. He wants my husband to sign it, and if he doesn’t have an item on the list he gets a .00 per hour deduction. He distributed this to all the employees. He even wanted him to have a multi-meter, and he isn’t even an electrician. The guy has them doing electrical wire and plumbing yet no one is licensed (and my husband never indicated he was). He was hired as a carpenter. The list is far from what he considers "basic tools" so is this legal? Can he fire my husband for not signing this
It would probably cost about 00 dollars for everything on his list, and we barely make it on what he makes now. We certainly do not have the extra money to buy these items. He has some of the things on the list such as hammers, tool belts, screwdrivers, guns, squares, drills, tapes, and other things needed to remodel a home, but some of the items are related to different fields and things he never even uses.
Homemade pump and tank contraption to spray weedkiller on our back yard (which used to be a pasture). Parts list: 2′ 1/2″ PVC 1 1/2″ T-fitting 2 1/2″ PVC to male 1/2″ thread elbow 2 shrub sprayers 1 1/2″ PVC to male 3/4″ reducing adapter 1 3/4″ ball-valve 1 brass 3/4″ MIP to 3/4″ Female Hose adapter 1 brass 3/4″ Hose to 3/4″ FIP adapter 1 brass 3/4″ MIP nipple 1 4-6′ garden hose 1 pump (garden hose fittings on both sides) 1 Inverter (if you don’t get a 12V DC pump!) 3 or more ratchet straps to attach the whole thing to your tractor. I slid the mounting plate for the pump between two straps, which held quite well. Don’t plug both holes at the top – the pump needs air coming in to allow the fluid to flow. Otherwise, you’ll create a vacuum and collapse the barrel, causing the straps to loosen and your pump to slip and tilt.
Available from www.progreen.co.uk the ProPack rechargeable electric backpack sprayer eliminates the need to ‘continually’ pump the unit to maintain a constant and steady spray pattern. This rechargeable electric sprayer gives a constant spray for just the press of a button making spraying of large areas such as tennis courts, driveways, carparks, lawns and trees much easier and quicker and reduces fatigue on the very large areas.
We are remodeling a home we recently purchased at a foreclosure sale. The home has a concrete slab and the slab has an odd/musty/pet odor smell, even after cleaning the floor with bleach water using the pump-up sprayer. What can we put on the floor to seal it and get rid of the odors? Thanks!
Additional note: The smell is worse in the bedrooms than other parts of the house. According to the neighbors, the last owners (of 12 years) were anything but clean. Apparently, when the cleanup crew for the bank came in after the foreclosure the entire house and especially the carpet reeked. Fortunately, the carpet had been removed prior to us finding/putting an offer on the house.
I have a 4 gallon backpack type of sprayer. There is a handle that I pump which operates a pump that pressurizes the sprayer. The handle is a cheap crimped hollow tube that has a 5/8 inch hex stamped end. The hex end slides onto the shaft of the pump.
The handle has fallen apart at the crimps, and it no longer can pump the sprayer. I thought about welding a deep wall 5/8" socket onto a piece of 1/2 rebar in order to make a new sturdier pump handle. The socket looks like it’s made from stainless steel or maybe chrome. I grinded off a little, and it was shiney metal underneath. Can the socket be welded onto the re-bar? If not, are there any other suggestions on how to make a new handle?
I was out spraying weeds this weekend and I thought of a intresting problem. My gallon sprayer needs to be pumped constantly to provide the same flow rate, so how long do I have until there is no flow rate? Here are the assumptions I thought about using….
Volume of fluid initially, assuming water as the fluid, is 1 gallon.
Volume of air intially, 1/4 gallon.
Nozzle cross section, 0.125 in. diamater
Pump diameter, 1/2 in. diameter
Pump tavel, 12 in.
Intial pressure, sea level atmoshperic conditions.
Assuming no friction also
My question is this…
If I give my sprayer 10 pumps, how long can I spray for until I need to pump the sprayer up some more?
Feel free to make anyother assumptions you would like.
Once you use an Atomizer you will never go back to spray bottles or pump sprayers again. The plants love the force of the jet stream, dead leaves are rippid off and healthy leaves bend completely over allowing for complete coverage of whatever it is you are spraying on your plants. I recommend rosemary extract and House and Garden’s Magic Grow. I hope you enjoy the HD footage of the jet stream action!
A USB port on a laptop is used to power a Joule thief which charges up a capasitor which runs a Bedini Fan.The Bedini Fan is being used to charge a 12 volt car battery.
I loaned a 24ft trailor with sprayers,pumps,hoses,ect to a roofer Total value 35,000.. He refuses to return the equipment to me.He plans to take the equipment to the southern states to work the winter. Police won!t help because of it being a civikl matter.The rental value is about 300-400 per day.The plates have expired.I had him arrested on a non-related matter. He spent seven days in jail and bonded out and has a court appearance in six weeks.I know of his whereabouts but not that of the equipment. I have no money for an attorney. What may I do to recover my property?
