[Shop-talk] water pumps

[David Scheidt]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:03 PM,  <scott.hall at comcast.net> wrote:
> okay, this will be fun.
>
> we bought a house with a pool.  the house (and the pool) are turning out to be a huge pain in the ass.
>
> I'd like to build a water cannon (for blasting my wife, what else?) and I was pondering pumps.
>
> I thought we'd use sch. 80, or maybe iron pipe, mount it on a pintle, and make the orifice .25", and perfect the size through trial and error.
>
> but what to use for the pump?  my first thought was swimming pool booster pump, but I thought maybe you guys would know that *of*course* I needed a pump from a whatever whatever, which would just be right.  or a place to look?
>

A fire truck.  Duh.
>  I don't want to kill anybody, but we're looking for a 40 foot or so effective range.
>

Oh.  Never mind, then.

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David Scheidt
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