Re: Small cyclone separator bins

"David Billington"  wrote in message news:vgp536$1okf$1@dont-email.me...
A local farm supply has 2000 litre plastic screw top barrels that were
used to ship orange squash concentrate, they sell them for water butts.
I had a look at them as a replacement for my mother's galvanised steel
water butt that was beyond repair but they were too tall, taking the lid
off they still smelled of orange concentrate. I used a black 1000 litre
IBC container in the end. Another local guy used to sell smaller barrels
for water butts that had been used to ship vinegar in.
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I bought a blue barrel with attached lid for fire fighting water storage out back. It had held coffee concentrate that still flavored water after several soapy water flushes. Plastic fittings for the bungs are easy to find, except for one that seals around a pipe reaching to the bottom, so I had to hang it horizontal from shed roof beams.
The water refills the garden sprayers modified with sink spray hoses that serve as brush fire extinguishers in summer and for showering with water heated on the wood stove in winter.
I made bulkhead fittings to convert trash cans to rain barrels by lathe threading the barbed end of a pipe to hose adapter. The o ring seal is on the outside, the inside needs a reinforcing washer to spread the lateral pull of a connected hose. For convenience the outside hose is a clear vinyl tube long enough to reach and attach to the carrying handle, with an in-line plastic garden hose valve on the end. The hose extension lets the barrel hide in the bushes. The covering strainer is 1/4" hardware cloth formed into a volcano shape, a cone with a crater in the top, plus landscape fabric or window screen to filter roof debris and block mosquitos.
The fixed gutter downspout ends above barrel height to attach an accordion flex tube to feed the barrel in summer and a straight down section in winter. If you don't mind the appearance the flex tube works fine in winter too.