Flow control through 1/4 tubing?

More elegant - small ball valve with FPT ends, and hose barbs screwed into it?

nate

Your on the right track, but if you want something more exotic:

Just get one of these clamp thingies:

I remember using them to control air flow through home aquarium hoses

Jeff

jeff_wisnia wrote in news:V8qdnWt3jPa-9XDMnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Thanks much. Looks like just the thing! Wonder where I can find one or one like it locally - True Value? Lowes? Home Depot?

What is the water pressure on the supply-side of the tube?

Petsmart?

Got some thin, stiff plastic like a notebook or file cover?

1. snip off a piece about an inch wide & six inches long

1. fold in half the long way

2. punch a hole through both pieces near the end opposite the fold

1. slip one hole over the tube

5b. if you are in the middle, make a cut in the unoccupied hole so you can slip the tubing into the hole after bending it

Or, a wooden clothespin (spring type). Or a regular spring clamo.

That's what we used when I worked in a lab.

For crude control, you can get shut off clamps from a chemistry lab place. Looks like a mini C clamp, but two flat surfaces.

Or, you can get an inline globe valve for water copper, from Home Depot. Compression fitting clamp onto two pieces of 1/8 water copper (which is

though. All I can think of offhand is two large flat washers with a nut and bolt straddling it and squashing the line between the washers to control

the flow. Haven't tried this yet so don't know if it will work.

Any better ideas? It is out of sight so need not be pretty. Any suggestions?

TIA

Thanks much. Looks like just the thing! Wonder where I can find one or one like it locally - True Value? Lowes? Home Depot?

Open your yellow pages to Tube & Fittings and phone around to the companies listed there.

No, they won't have it.

An aquarium store, or a pet store.

You never said if you wanted to turn the water on and off only or if you wanted to have adjustments in between.

If the first something like this is good

If you squeeze it with the parts at the top, the two veritcal parts in the middle open up. The arms are crossed, which is why squeezing them doesn't close the middle. . The parentheses are a spring. The whole thing is about 2.5 inches long.

micky wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Adjustments.

Home Guy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@Guy.com:

I have no idea. It's the 'bleeder' output of an evaporative cooler water pump. It bleeds off some water to the ground from the cooler reservoir as the pump runs to help control calcium buildup.

"dadiOH" wrote in news:ksk0dd$v6s$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Interesting idea! Never thought of that.

Anywhere that sells pond pumps and tubing, so that should include Lowes and Home Depot.