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[BallGuy]

Well I've just finished the third and hopefully last redesign of the dripper system for our cham.

For those of you that also get that primal urge to build your own it cost £10.01 and the parts came from Asda and B&Q.

First Pic 10 in-line drippers with 2 end drippers.



Close up of one of the dripper lines.



Shut off (flow control) valve.



Final pic the 5 litre tank (Asda food box) and valve.



The whole system gives a series of irregular large drips in the enclosure and even with the valve open full can run for about four hours.

Mark 4 will probably be a 10 litre tank.
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[kroakykaren]

Nice one
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[Jack]

would they work for cresties and if so could u tell mehow to make it

cheers

[garysumpter]

Would love to know exactly what you have used mate as I need to set up 3 drip systems

Many Thanks

Gary
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[BallGuy]

I bought the following from B&Q, found in the garden hose section they are bits for green house irrigation. Inline drippers, inline valve, tee (y) splitter and end stop drippers. From the rope and chain section I bought some clear tubing 67mm (I think). From Asda a 5l food tub.

In the tub i drilled a hole near the bottom of the tub, slightly smaller than the diameter of the tube, pushed a 6inch piece of tube in (immerse the end in boiling water it goes in easier) it only needs to project 0.1 to 1cm inside the tub. Because the hole is slightly smaller than the tube it should be reasonably watertight, but I sealed it with a hot glue gun anyway.

On the free end I fitted one inline valve.

I decided to fit 2 spray bars, for each I used 5 inline drippers and 1 end dripper. I cut 6 2inch lengths of tube per spray bar and started by fitting a piece of tubing to the end dripper, followed altenately by tubing and inline drippers. Once again I heated the tube to make it pliable (only immerse one end at a time in hot water) no need to seal as the lip the tube has to go over is bigger than the diameter of the tubing.

Once both spray arms were complete I joined them together with a tee piece and then joined the tee piece and valve together with the left over tubing.

The fit to the valve is snug but not too tight so if you need to feed the pipe through mesh or a hole etc, you can pull it apart there. It is also handy if you need to take apart to clean.

Keep the valve fitted to the tube coming out the tub at all times as there will always remain a little water in the tub.

I remove the whole lot periodically and flush through with milton and lots of fresh water.
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