Water Tap for Jerry Can

Tried a syphon hose?

I have it syphon thru a half inch hose thru the lid.

Need to drill a hole in the top of the cap, then widen it with some sort of a reamer, until a piece of the 1/2 inch nylex blue water hose is a tight fit. Drill a second very fine hole next to it as a breather.

To make up the hose, I use a right angle 1/2 inch barbed connector at the cap, with a piece of hose down to the bottom of the jerry, then another piece of blue hose of whatever length terminating with either a half inch tap at the end, or even better a trigger hose with the tip chopped off.

You'll need to suck it thru to start the syphon, but after that the water comes thru fine until the jerry can is empty, provided you keep the trigger or tap below the water level.

Important to use the blue Nylex hose so no plastic taste. And you can also use a piece of fine tubing for the breather, which will avoid the chance of a few drops of water escaping thru the breather hole.

Cheers
Phil

Here's Phil's solution, except with a pump added (and pics)

http://www.lcool.org/technical/90_series/WaterSystem/water.html

Depends how "complex" you want to get and whether you have onboard compressed air supply. If you have a compressor which you can have a semi permanent air hose going from, to the gerry can, then you could follow the above suggestion as far as the hose through an air-tight fitting (don't put the small hole in for breathing purposes) and when you want water, just turn the compressor on (or if you have a permanent tank of air under pressure it's easier).
The air pressure forces the water out of the hose.

Not quite as fancy as a pump, but I have seen people with taps that fit the filler end of the 20lt water containers. When the drum is upright, it would be very unlikely that an damage to the tap would occur. I have had the small taps at the bottom of the drum come partially out before, lost a lot of water, and made a huge mess. Now I unscrew the small taps, before travelling, but its a pain to do all the time.

Sadly, I am yet to find a place that sells these though, but I am still looking.

Andrew

We use a supersyphon.

Little marble in a copper fitting on the end of the hose. Jiggle it up and down and the syphon starts.

When the container, billy cup etc, is full we simply put the delvery end of the syphon back into the jerry and it holds the water in the syphon. Next time all we need do is pull the end out and take it lower than the water level in the jerry. My kids have been successfully operating this since they were about 3yrs old.

Duncs

A caravaning place has small 12 v pumps for around $30, if you dont want to use a sureflo pump, but you can also fit a pull up/ push down caravan pump handle into the lid of a plastic jerry can with a hose off the bottom to the bottom of the container, which means no accidental losses like syphon, or tap off the bottom.

I'm with ats - I've seen the manual - pull up/push down type caravan sink water pump mounted in a plastic jerry screw on lid - just extend the pick up with some plastic tube to the bottom of the jerry - somewhat reliable and simple overall I'd say. Just ned a hole saw for the lid work.

I've used the caravan pump in the lid. They leak like a sieve. Thats why I changed the system I use.

Thanks for your replies.

HI there Phill,

It's afew days later but if your still looking for a great idea have a look at the pump below.

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It'll also fit directly onto the water drums and just runs of 2 D cell batteries. It pumps a huge amount of water on one set of batteries. The switch on top makes it really easy if you've got messy hands as well. They are around $40 but well worth it.

Cheers ToNy!