Re: [EVGRAY] ram pump

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:19 AM bart woodard [email protected]
[EVGRAY] <[email protected]> wrote:

> I friend over the Christmas holidays has asked me to help him
> build a ram pump. I think this is another one of those amazing
> inventions.

Yes.  Been around for hundreds of years.

They are also known as Thromp Pumps or Klack Pumps from the sound they make.
I wrote about them at the link below.  Took a Check-Vale apart and put
it together backwards as the compression valve.
Reset was a 4" drain pipe as feed and some 1.5" fittings with a 1.5"
output pipe.

Bellocq, Toribio: Compression Wave Pump.  Where we are applying the
concepts of Resonance and other electrical properties to plumbing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110813074433/http://www.unusualresearch.com/Pump/bellocq.htm

Mr Bellocq's grandson sent me a video of it running:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100308021211/http://www.archive.org/details/BobPaddockTonibioBellocqCompressionWavePumpinoperation

> Always wondered why more of them are not built
> to run generators.

Flood destroyed mine.  Moved so never rebuilt.

I did learn a Health Respect for compressed water and air!
Almost lost the fingers of my right had,
and almost had my head caved in by a pump that broke look when tried
to bleed off some air in the pipe.


The Preface to Murphy's Law:

_We, the willing, Lead by the unknowing.
__Are doing the impossible for the ungrateful… We have done so much for so long…
___With so little… We are now qualified to do anything…
____With nothing… Forever!