The Victory is Reborn

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Brendon
If the bennets give you further hassles Lenco has a kit to convert them to simple electric operation and you wont have to worry about pumping hydraulic oil any more. Would have been a dangerous pain to hav e one down and one up in a blow!

Cheers
Chimo

sorry mate didnt see this earlier . Thats good thinking 99. I willgive it a try straight away.
Brendan

[neil_stessco]

The refurb looks great Brendan, i would stick with the bennet's over lenco's or upgrade to the ql's.

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Brendon

I had the same problem with the full live bait tank but fixed it years ago and forgot all about it until you just mentioned it.

I use different lengths of the thin walled irrigation pipe stuffed into the outlet instead of the plug and this is important; on top I fit a Tee with short lengths of the same pipe with the ends cut at 45degrees. The cut faces down and the result is a "flooded entry" trickle flow pipe with no vortex being formed so the flow rate is maximized, especially with two entrys. This is just a scaled down version of what I used to instal in a range of different sized water supply dams so the natural grassed spillway only ever had to deal with a few days flow during and immediately after storms. Imagine a large concrete tank installed with its top being the designed full supply level of the dam and the fllooded entry outlets installed near the bottom and given that 1 psi is generated by 1.31ft head consider the flow that issues from the end of outlet pipe downstream of the dam! Gold sluicing head which we also had to mitigat but thats another tale..:shocked:

If you use the 3/4 soft irrigation pipe it should be able to be slid into the outlet on the tank (if its the same as the Vagabond) so you get extra adjustment of the pipe as you can slide it down as you require. With a couple of upright pipes its easy to run a 1/3 or 1/2 or 2/3 or 3/4 full tank with this system

Cheers
Chimo

Sorry ,I meant to reply to this quote.
I am happy to stick with the Bennets