Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by Tasss

  1. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Will try, but it may take a while.
  2. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Thanks! The videos I had seen already but the document is interesting, as they did some real testing and put the data up. Great find, thanks a lot. I guess this will at least give me an indication for the first prototype. Thanks heaps fo the effort.
  3. Tasss

    Sling pump

    3DDave, fair points. The floating material would have been less of a problem in olden times, they used air filled animal bladders or reed gras etc,, but the smooth tube with constant diameter would probably have been a challenge. And as you say, the coupler. That's still a challenge today in...
  4. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Thanks, LittleInch. Yes, it is very basic, which makes it suitable for many developing country contexts where people just try to get by and have little or nothing to invest. I had assumed that engineers start learning about their field with a certain historical chronology, but then I realized...
  5. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Thanks 3DDave, that is useful. I don't need an exact measure, I only need to understand which are the determining factors for head pressure, as I don't want to achieve maximum lift, just a suitable one. So, from what you say, it exclusively depends on the number of coils? Doesn't the diameter...
  6. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Oh sorry, I thought that the question was so basic that everyone in a pump forum could only yawn about it. Ok, a sling pump is kind of a modified Archimedes screw that is driven by river flow. This is not a great picture but probably enough to get the twist. Otherwise, there is this video...
  7. Tasss

    Sling pump

    Hello Hivemind! I better admit it at once, I am not an engineer but a natural science researcher working in agriculture. So bear with me. I am working in developing countries where limitations are often people's constant companion. Water for small scale irrigation for vegetable gardens or for...
See more

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top