I've purchased a 3" trash pump for pumping my papercrete slurry and need to come up with a rigid intake hose for it.
I know that for sections of the about 15-foot intake hose that I can use 3" pvc. But it also needs flexible bends.
These need to be strong enough and rigid enough that they will not collapse during significant suction and will not puncture as slurry is pumped through the flexible portions.
Any ideas of inexpensive or reusable discarded materials that (along with hose clamps) could be used to manufacture the flexible portions of the intake hose? Would need to slide over 3" diameter pvc and clamp tightly to it.
Alternately, are you aware of any flexible, semi-rigid hoses or tubing material of 3" diameter that I could scavenge or re-purpose for the entire intake hose? I need the hose to be about 15 feet in length and to make several 90 to 180 degree bends.
Locally, 3-inch diameter semi-rigid intake-hose material made for trash pump (and water pump) use is selling for about $8 per foot.
(The stuff is advertised for 99 cents per foot on eBay, but they make up the difference with outrageous shipping/handling fees. It still comes out to somewhere north of $6 per foot.)
Would like to apply some ingeniuty -- yours and mine -- and beat that price and maybe, in the process, make good re-use of something that otherwise would be clogging a landfill.
Ideas?
Thanks,
ken
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