Borrowed from the neighbour
Sign of the times
repairing doors, I’m shortening them 50mm to keep them dry/clean and hopefully less rot in the future.
I've a water trough, 3/4" overhead fill, that continues to seep, even when the ballcock is in the fully closed position. I replaced the fitting but no improvement. Would it be too much pressure coming through the pipe? If I were to reduce the pipe to 1/2" would that increase the pressure or might it alleviate the problem? TIA.
Pipe size has nothing to do with pressure only the amount of water you will get (flow rate). Doubt a pressure regulator is required (about €30 last time I bought one) because the trough I'm looking out the window at is on mains water at 180 PSI and doesn't seep. 180 PSI is ridiculously high but we are at the bottom a hill and the same supply has to supply houses nearly 300 feet above us.
Shorten them a bit more and bolt a length of yard scraper rubber along the bottom to fill the gap?
I know the drinkers have lo & high psi ballcocks, is it a large drinking trough?
Ballcocks would be the same but the nozzles would be different and can be changed, High Pressure is the narrow one
Of its the balcock as shown above the little rubber in the piston may need Changing
It's the narrow one, looks like. Don't think it's the piston either as I swapped in an entire new fitting, as shown below. Trough isn't extra large either. Might just go back to the tried and tested brass ones. Nuisance of a thing to fix when the nearest stop tap is a field away and you're on your own. 😫
Some of those high flow valves don’t like bits of grit getting stuck in them.
Ya definitely the brass ones and fit a red high flow nozzle in it a little bend down on a balcock arm is a great help sometimes
Reducing pipe size will increase the pressure, can you get a longer arm for the ballcock and lower the ball in the water a bit, it will increase the pressure to stop the water.
The ballcock frame end coming through the trough wall (concrete?) might have some play; if it could be wedged downwards a little and jammed in place it might do the trick.
It's a Murphy concrete trough, the ballcock is mounted on a bracket bolted on near the top, rather than going through the trough. I might bore a hole through it however and see if I can install a brass fitting that way. Have also bent the ballcock arm downwards and it's a long enough stem as it is.
Tricky things to get right.
Can you screw a bigger ball on to the lever?
Is this the way its installed?
Yes, pretty much. As I said, even closing the float manually by hand won't stop the seep. Surprising even the new fitting won't either.
Brass all the way I would think 🤔 there's no way it should leak when you are holding the arm up
A bit of something in the nozzle, insect or grass. See it here when have pipe disconnected for a while and then join up pipe again.take the valve apart and see what u see
We had the same problems with some of them fast flow. Very high pressure. I think some if mine had a green ring holding up the rubber seal. If that ring blows off trying to tighten it I have found you get very wet 😏
We might all need one yet.
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Had a problem with a fast flow a few years ago in one field Field was the highest point in the system., Couldn't stop it from leaking changed back to brass and no problem since.
Next project for @emaherx to improve your water pumping set up.
Second lease of life for the ring feeder.
Slightly different use for them here.
I second that, a bit of grit, from the pipe after frost, won't let seal close fully
Pretty much finished the fort now. Old ladder and floor in. My 6yo son came up with the idea of using the horn as a door handle,
Is it two of the smal ring feeders... And you put s second floor in as well... Great idea.....
Would need to be well anchored to prevent disaster.
