chlorine 'stuggles'

[eqbob]

For sampling, I've always used a 5 foot length of 0.5" ID PVC pipe to dip into deeper water and draw out a sample from below the surface. A nice way to do it without getting your arm wet (and cold) as long as you can briefly hold the water in the pipe with your thumb or rig up a valve on one end of the pipe.

Hmmm... interesting. Sounds like what we really need is about a 3' long turkey baster <G>

 

[JVTrain]

Was looking around and found a picture that SunnyOptimism had posted of their water sampling set up that's more high-tech than my thumb method.

 

[eqbob]

Ok. I'll play the stupid hand. Ya'll should be used to that by now. How's it work?

 

[JVTrain]

Here's Sunny's post about it SpeedStir is worth the money thread

Exerpt:
Yeah. Cost about $7 worth of PVC parts. Now when I take water samples, I don't have to submerge my arm up to my shoulder to make sure I'm getting a good sample. I just close the valve, stick the tube in the deep end pointing away from the wall, open the ball valve and up comes my deep water sample. I close the valve and pull up the tube, invert and open the valve again to let the water into a sample bottle. I then sit on my back patio with a cool beer and do my tests.

I used a hose barb on the end so that the water sample would flow nicely into my sample bottle without a lot of splashing or bubbles.

 

[Kiss4aFrog]

Just like a soda/pop straw. It's sitting in your glass and you put your thumb over the end and you can pull up the straw full of pop/soda. Dip it into the water and close off the top end and you pull up a column of water inside the tube. Might need something like the barb fitting to restrict the bottom end a bit so air doesn't allow the water to "fall out". Think about how a turkey baster works like mentioned above except rather than siphoning up the water you are submerging the baster with the top open and once full closing off the top. You could always use even a smaller diameter tube like 1/4" and your thumb and just have your sample bottle on the walkway so you swing the tube over the sample bottles opening, remove your thumb and the bottle fills.

 

[eqbob]

Still missing something. What I don't get is the cap on the left hand. If the ball valve is above the water to open and close, how can the end in the water be capped?

 

[JVTrain]

Likely a hole in that cap or it's just dry fit on there for storage? It's not necessary.

Sent from mobile device. Beware of brevity and spelling errors!

 

[Kiss4aFrog]

It likely has a hole in the capped end as the pipe is big enough that if you submerged it and then shut the valve and pulled it up (valve up) due to the diameter of the pipe it wouldn't hold the water as air would rush in and water out. With a drinking straw it's small enough the water stays in the straw when you have your thumb over the end of the straw and pull it out of the glass.

 

[eqbob]

Thanks everyone.