which adapter for this water tote fitting? (project complete!)

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I've got one of the 275 gallon water totes and I finally want to hook a hose up to it to run the water somewhere else without filling buckets. Getting lazy. :)

Anyway, I see references to 2" adapters, and 60mm adapters. I'm assuming this is a 60mm because it's clearly not 2" either ID or OD... but maybe it's like a 2x4, and 2" means something other than 2 actual inches?

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That is 2" NPS (Nominal Pipe Size).
See the chart below for additional sizes.

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I've worked as a piping designer for 45+ years :)
Below 4" the sizes are all over the place.
4" and larger the size is the average ID for standard weight.
More info available if you need, just PM me.
Ron
 
That is 2" NPS (Nominal Pipe Size).
See the chart below for additional sizes.

2" nominal is 2.375" OD.

I'm guessing that's fine thread based on how the coarse thread looks online, so I just go to home depot and poke around? Now that I know what I'm looking for and why a lot of web sites seem to say the stuff isn't available locally very often.

I've worked as a piping designer for 45+ years :)

Seems like there is a joke brewing there somewhere... if this was in another section of the forum.
 
2" nominal is 2.375" OD.

I'm guessing that's fine thread based on how the coarse thread looks online, so I just go to home depot and poke around? Now that I know what I'm looking for and why a lot of web sites seem to say the stuff isn't available locally very often.

Seems like there is a joke brewing there somewhere... if this was in another section of the forum.
The thread for pipe is NC (Nominal Course) for the most part.

Pipers are a breed apart.
Just look back at some of my post and remember that I have meet very few from here face to face.
So I have not shown my true piper face/azz for the most part.
 
Kelly - I used a 2" female thread x 2" slip fitting, a 2" male slip x 3/4 female thread bushing, and a 3/4" mip x 3/4 hose bib adapter on mine.IMG_20180401_124036045_1522601524882_1.JPG
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I have a similar tank. Mine is plumbed with a ball valve and cam-lock fittings. I have separate 2” hoses with cam locks on them for distributing the water.

I presume that is 2” NPT, so any standard 2: pipe thread fitting should work.
 
If you replace that 2"NPT x 2"PVC coupling with a "Bull Head"(configuration) Tee, you could bushing(2" x 3/4") both sides of the T and have two outlets for hoses to attach. This is a automatic fire pump sprinkler system I recently plumbed....well the last 2 tanks in the line. The T that makes the transition to each tank is in the "Bull head" position. 2" x 3/4" left.....2" x 3/4" right....two hoses.
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Picked these up tonight (woo hoo, happenin' Friday night at Home Depot) and the threads to fit. Tomorrow I'll see if I can't get them connected.

I spent the extra $3 on the valve instead of just the thread adapter for the hose. Figured in the long run perhaps it's better to have an easily replaced part being moved instead of that really big valve on the tank itself.


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I lost a bunch of brain cells smelling the glue putting the fitting together but it's done and drying. Tomorrow I'll plumb it up.

Dad bought 200' of hose on a hose reel cart of CL a while back and the reel leaks like crazy so he doesn't want it. I grabbed it today, the hose itself is fine, it's the joint into the rotating part of the reel assembly that leaks. Double bonus is the reel assembly is just bolted to the cart, so it's easy to pull off and then I have a little 4-wheeled cart to build into something. One of our goats likes rides in the muck cart, maybe I can make this into some sort of dedicated use goat toy...

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I may need to raise the tank up another block. It's up hill from the garden so gravity feed should work, but some additional pressure can't hurt.

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I may need to raise the tank up another block. It's up hill from the garden so gravity feed should work, but some additional pressure can't hurt.

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The difference will be negligible with an 8" block. It's about 28" of vertical rise for each additional pound of pressure. Get busy and build a tower - 115' gets you 50 p.s.i.!
 
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The difference will be negligible with an 8" block. It's about 28" of vertical rise for each additional pound of pressure. Get busy and build a tower - 115' gets you 50 p.s.i.!

well that sucks. you people and your "math" and "physics". bah.
 
Are the 2 standing blocks for the unit shown in the pic ? Im just saying if those blocks are "legs", in all areas of support, that setup can fall over with a little bump. Also, put a 3/4" Hose thread "cap" on that valve. Mud dobbers love a small open orifice, like myself.
If you want pressure....add a small pump. There are hand held pumps that will clear that tank in 5 minutes and give you 125psi so you can pressure wash the goats.
Your setup is looking good brother!

Rooster
 
Are the 2 standing blocks for the unit shown in the pic ? Im just saying if those blocks are "legs", in all areas of support, that setup can fall over with a little bump.

It's sitting on 6 sets of blocks, 4 corners and two in the middle. With it only 1/5th full it seems like it would take a really solid jolt to make it fall over; I pushed it a few times trying to make it fall to see what would happen if the goats decided to try to climb it or some such.

What they did do was start rubbing their heads on the valve assembly which torques the connect to the tank. That's not good. When I finish I'll build a little fence around it to keep them off, but for the next few days I just bungeed a pallet to the thing to give them something to chew on other than the valve. Ghetto, but it will have to work until Saturday when I can finish.

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Project is finished up, I now have water to the back garden. It's not a lot of pressure, but it lets me water stuff without buckets. That a win. I'll be researching small pumps, just for fun. I've got power right there by the tank.

While I had the trench open I ran a 2nd conduit for future camera use. This tank sits next to the goat barn which has the wifi router it in so it would be nothing to run an ethernet cable down for a PoE camera somewhere by the back garden. Not planning that just yet, but I had the conduit in the barn leftover from another project and the digging is the hard part so I figured I would take advantage of the expended labor.

I may have to run some posts down behind that wire if the goats get curious. no wait, when they get curious. Probably should go get the posts next trip, I'm sure I'll need them.

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Depending on what you have in the back garden, drip hose may be worth looking into.
 
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