Thursday, Nov 24, 2005 at 00:26
I looked at it too and wondered at the price. Then I did some investigating and came up with this idea: Get 2m long ss tube, with a
bore big enough to accept one of these nifty tubular pumps that are available at marine stores for about $100.-
Modify lower end of tube so it can be easily screwed into sand via two removable handles near the upper end.
Drill large holes at the lower end of the tube and fit very fine ss mesh screen to the inside of the tube at the holes.
if one wanted
drinking water (after boiling it first), perhaps one of the readily available
water jug carbon filters could also be inserted in the tube somewhere.
I think that's all that there is to this or did I miss something?
I doubt that
water pumping would be used to insert the tube into the sand, as suggested above. After all, it is
water *from* the tube that's required, no point pumping it in there :-0
Klaus
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