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Default Potable Water - The Third Way.
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:40:57 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

(That would however take a hand pump capable of supplying a flow
at 15 psi plus. Like a bicycle pump, or better? )

Grease guns are, some of them, capable of at least. hundreds of psi.
I happen to own a 0-5000 psi gauge. Bought it to check tractor
hydraulic systems. I forget just what a grease gun pumped it up to, but
it was a lot.
There is a reverse osmosis watermaker intended for liferaft use, with
a hand pump, and RO takes hundreds of psi. That is what you want, if
you actually need high pressure.

Casady


How interesting! Sure enough, a grease gun can usually put up 1000's
of psi. and a low volume RO with such a hand pump seems like a
reasonably economic proposition. Wonder how much they cost.
Must take a look!

Brian W
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