kb0thn
Stainless
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
- Location
- Winona, MN, USA
We use de-ionized water for coolant water makeup and some electronics assembly. Not a lot. If the lathe and the mill get topped up weekly, it's about 5 gallons at a go. So I am trying buying DI water in 55 gallon drums rather than making it. Or buying it in the 5 gallon pails that I used to.
I'd like an easy way to dispense the water into 5 gallon bucket or something easy to carry by hand.
It seems to me that I could slightly pressurize the plastic drum and then have a siphon tube at the bottom as a water pickup ... connect through bung and attach to a hose. Is that all there is to it? My understanding is that drums are only good for about 3 PSIG of pressure. I was thinking of a small relieving type pressure regulator that shop air could be plugged into. Probably will put a pressure relief valve set to 5 PSI so if the regulator fails, the tank won't rupture.
Good idea? Bad idea? Terrible idea? Trying to avoid $$$ stainless pump or slow slow slow hand plastic pump. But don't want to blow up the shop and kill everybody.
Thanks,
-Jim
I'd like an easy way to dispense the water into 5 gallon bucket or something easy to carry by hand.
It seems to me that I could slightly pressurize the plastic drum and then have a siphon tube at the bottom as a water pickup ... connect through bung and attach to a hose. Is that all there is to it? My understanding is that drums are only good for about 3 PSIG of pressure. I was thinking of a small relieving type pressure regulator that shop air could be plugged into. Probably will put a pressure relief valve set to 5 PSI so if the regulator fails, the tank won't rupture.
Good idea? Bad idea? Terrible idea? Trying to avoid $$$ stainless pump or slow slow slow hand plastic pump. But don't want to blow up the shop and kill everybody.
Thanks,
-Jim
