filling Dampp-Chasers

[Otto Keyes]

Mark, you have forced my hand.  In the vernacular, it was called a "p--s
pump", unmentionable in polite society.  This information, however, does not
assist one in obtaining the afore-mentioned bladder pack.  In actuality,
they were probably much smaller than I described, but clawing one's way up a
smoking mountainside has one the effect of inflating bladder and weight in
memory.  As I recall, one could cover a good bit of ground between re-fills,
but surveying the distance between present position and water supply, and
calculating effort expended to traverse said distance, had a positive
outcome economy of water use.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Cramer" <Cramer@BrandonU.CA>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: filling Dampp-Chasers


> Good one Fred.
>
> A former student-assistant here found a portable shower-head with a short
> hose, and a rubber thing that fits over faucets on the other end.
>
> It worked just fine, until the janitorial head who spawned the idea by
> refusing to grant us keys for four years running, retired and put an end
to
> all our ingenious fun. :>)
>
> Anyone progress with ideas for porting the water from room to room?
>
> Until Otto divulges the authentic "fire-fighters nickname" for the
back-pack
> unit he described in Dallas, we're doomed to toting a 10 gallon garbage
can
> up and down hallways on a 4-wheeled cart.
>
> best regards,
> Mark Cramer,
> Brandon University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> Fred Sturm
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:30 PM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: filling Dampp-Chasers
>
>
> Keeping a bunch of Dampp-Chaser systems filled is a bit of a task. It's
> nice to use a large tank of some sort, but getting water into the tank
from
> an available faucet can be a challenge. A key (or access) to the janitors
> closet can help, but it is often far away from the systems needing water.
> I just came up with a solution to this problem that fit my budget (didn't
> cost a red cent): an old bicycle innertube (the smaller, "English" style,
> as opposed to fat, "mountain bike"). One cut, and it turns into a hose
that
> fits over a faucet quite nicely. Innertubes do have a white powder
> (probably talc) inside, so need to be flushed. But it saved me a few
> minutes this morning.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> PS Best to avoid modern innertubes filled with "Slime" (a green substance
> used to stop flats). I'm not sure you could flush that stuff out.
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