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Bailing Bucket
I had a bailing bucket that I used for several years until it gave up. It
was made of plastic with a black vinyl flap at the bottom. I have tried several chandleries without success. Does anyone know where I can purchase a replacement bailing bucket? Thank you, John |
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Bailing Bucket
John wrote:
I had a bailing bucket that I used for several years until it gave up. It was made of plastic with a black vinyl flap at the bottom. I have tried several chandleries without success. Does anyone know where I can purchase a replacement bailing bucket? I got mine as West. I thought it was from Davis but I don't see it on their site now. You can't have mine. |
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Bailing Bucket
I haven't seen one of these. What does the flap do that a milk jug with the
top cut back doesn't? -- Roger Long |
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Roger Long wrote:
I haven't seen one of these. What does the flap do that a milk jug with the top cut back doesn't? Davis (I think) made a 2 gallon cleaning bucket where the bottom was a flap that opened inward. It was really an "un-bailing" bucket, because you could drop it overboard (attached with a rope, of course) and easily fill it with sea water. |
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Bailing Bucket
I think you are correct
http://www.davisnet.com/marine/index.asp however, I don't see the bucket anymore. Davis Instruments (the one in Hayward CA, because there is another one) seems to develop unusual products, many of which don't stay on the market for long. I have an anchor chain brush (wraps around the chain) from davis that is no longer available. "Jeff" wrote in message . .. Roger Long wrote: I haven't seen one of these. What does the flap do that a milk jug with the top cut back doesn't? Davis (I think) made a 2 gallon cleaning bucket where the bottom was a flap that opened inward. It was really an "un-bailing" bucket, because you could drop it overboard (attached with a rope, of course) and easily fill it with sea water. |
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Bailing Bucket
"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a56945$0$5179
: What does the flap do that a milk jug with the top cut back doesn't? You drop it into the flooded compartment, even straight down. The flap opens and the bucket floods INSTANTLY. When you pick it up, the flap closes and the water in the bucket is trapped. It's fantastic for flooded cramped spaces where you cannot sweep the bucket to fill it by side motion. He can't have ours, either.... The technology is really old! Look at this one for mines: http://antiques- internet.com/colorado/ruxtonstradingpost/dynapage/IP593.htm I can't believe noone actually MAKES this bucket! It blows Google's mind and no wording resulted in anyone SELLING them to me! A plan is very simple, though. Drop by any donut shop or most restaurants and get a flat-bottomed bucket, the kind food-in-mass- quantity comes in. They have many sizes. Some donut shops, overrun with batter buckets even sell them by the door, here. It's plastic. Buy your fav size. Cut out the bottom leaving a lip about 1" wide between the cut and the outer wall of the bucket so the hole is 2" smaller than the bucket's bottom diameter, hole centered, of course. Save the part you cut out for the valve! Go by any rubber supplier and steal a piece of nice, FLAT rubber bigger than the bottom of the bucket. Charleston Rubber Company, here, puts all their scraps on a big pile anyone can get to 24/7 with a sign saying to take any of it you like...it's just scraps. (I have sheets of fine neoprene in various thickness from there.) Turn the bucket upside down and cut the rubber to fit the whole bottom with a 1/4" gap all the way around so it won't get stuck closed. Contact cement the plastic you cut out to the center of it to stiffen it and keep it from bulging outward from the force of the water when lifting the bucket out of the bilgewater. After that sets, use 3 short stainless bolts to bolt one side of the rubber flapper to the lip left on the bottom. The plastic stiffener points UP, not down so it can't get stuck in the hole when the bucket is upright. It only prevents the rubber from bulging out of the hole when full. Now we have to get it to SINK, rightside up!..... Around the bottom of the bucket, around the outside, not where the valve is located, bolt some sinkers or old zincs you don't know what they go to left over from 8 outboard motors ago, but can't bring yourself to toss out, something HEAVY that will sink the bucket QUICKLY and force the valve flap to open quickly.....but not so heavy, of course, you can't lift the full bucket out of the bilge, of course! That will make FILLING very fast before you jerk it up, flapper closes and another 5 gallons of bilgewater, amazing biology not yet known to science, diesel fuel, lube oil and dead rats is on its way over-the-side...if noone is looking..(c; Problem solved. Patent Pending, dammit! I wonder if a commercial model would SELL? I'm sure someone's holding the patent but I can't find a PRODUCER for this puppy anywhere on the net! Larry -- Extremely intelligent life exists that is so smart they never called Earth. |
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does any one know of a source for these old bailing buckets.....
seems long gone from chandlers here in UK... cheers |
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