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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Byron, Georgia
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When I lived at home, it was my job to dump the wash water after Mom did the clothes. I carried two 5 gallon buckets up a flight of stairs and maybe 100 feet across the yard to dump them; four or five trips each time. When I left home, Pop ran a garden hose out of the basement window that was attached to a submersible pump. He rigged a cutoff switch that stopped the pump when the water level reached a certain point. The switch was made of a wood base, a float, contact points etc. A counter balance weight was the cylinder from a cap pistol suspended by string. It worked and he used it for years. |
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