HOW TO BUILD THE BEST WASTE VALVE for your RAM PUMP

Finally it is here! My custom waste valve for ram pumps. Looks complicated but believe, it is worth!

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[johnc]

It's the costume built waste valve of yours that stands out among the rest! It's very efficient. No wonder, why your ram pump is 💪!!

[troygoss]

I want to say thank you for the energy you put into this video. I took inspiration from your work and thankfully, my system is working splendidly.

[nicklausho]

Thanks Bohumir for sharing of this great custom waste valve. We manage to achieve 7Bar in 8 minutes. We are delivering to 42m elevation at 0.9liter/min. Thanks again 👍

[andrewcosmatos]

Nice work, your waste valve rocks! I also like your original ideas for the pressure vessel especially the fire extinguisher 👩‍🚒🚒

[dankobarisic]

Bravo Bogomire za sve tvoje priloge, snimke, ideje. Ventil pravim sutra :))

[gee]

Great pump and information, that's going to help me out big time thanks Mr.

[gabrielramoskarry]

I have to say it, I’ve been researching this ram pumps for a while. And of all the videos this ram pump design and check valve design are the most efficient. 👍🏽🙏🏽

[JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Very good! I won't repeat what I said on the other video, I'll just add that using leather for the seal is probably the best bet - it will have a longer life than plastic or rubber seals!

[brandonnugent]

Thank you for all the work that you put into this. I just built a ram pump and modeled my waste gate valve off of your design. I will be pushing 250 ft up hill with 100 ft drop on the head pipe. I think the best thing about this valve is the tuneability. I can adjust and tune it to maximize performance for the flow and pressure that I have at my source. I think this will work great! wish me luck....

[richardwallinger]

great to have a true ideas guy on the project .. .. please do not spoil your video presentation with the loud music ..the music is so overpowering I found it almost impossible to follow your excellent construction video .. Great video keep up the good ideas .

[bartt.querro]

thank you.. a very big help for my farm.

[paulkleinkramer]

I built this waste valve to replace the swing check valves we have been using on our ram pump. It works great and has increased the flow rate by a factor of 2.5 up at our cabin. Thank you Bohumir Stehlik!

We have a 120 foot (about 40 meters) delivery lift from the creek bed into a 100 gallon (about 400 liters) water storage tank in the attic of our cabin. Also a mere 7 foot (about 2.3 meters) head on the 2" drive pipe. With Bohumir's waste valve design we deliver 1 liter every 70 seconds. Before I built Bohumir's designed waste valve, the constant hammering of the pump was destroying the brass seats and hinge on the 1" swing check valves regularly and I would have to replace it a couple times each season.

Be advised that using leather to make the seal did not work in my case. Leather swells, gets very soft and bunches up after a few hours in the water and causes the waste valve to stick closed. I wonder if Bohumir was using Leatherette (imitation leather) or a leather like vinyl or Naugahyde? I ended up making the seal from the fabric backed rubber I cut from a knee height rubber wader boot. With the rubber side towards the brass valve seat, its been working perfectly for a few days now. Time will tell if the rubber will endure; I tried a few different kinds of leather and found that leather WILL NOT last in the water. Also, the brass reducer that I bought was a rather rough and pitted casting. I found it necessary to chuck a circular fine grit grinding wheel of the appropriate size in a drill press and use it to smooth the area inside the reducer that becomes the valve seat. I'm sure you can think of other ways to do this if necessary, but I liked the drill press because it got the job done in a few minutes.

[raot]

Well done, Bohumir! Thanks a lot for this valve

[GermanShepherdRanch]

I love your videos. I’m going to try to drop the water about 50’ to gain 350’.

[endangwidiastuti]

Very good job! Thank you very much for sharing the video. GBU! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[joseantoniocandelalabrador]

muchas gracias por sus aportes, lo pondre en marcha

[maximoincognito]

Very good explanation, I made my own waste valve, almost the same of your design, the only different is instead of using T coupling I use straight coupling with 2"x1" boozing on both end and hard rubber (tyre of truck) is my plunger

[asorips]

Hi and thank you for sharing. Very nice

[bentheiselberg]

En rigtig god ventil og meget mere effektiv end en klapventil. På grundlag af din model byggede jeg en ram pump str. 1" med en ventil på 2". Jeg har opnået et tryk på 4.2 Bar.
Jeg har modificeret den en smule.

[RagazzoMafioso]

The bottom of the pump"s seal waste valve should be conical, so that the water will push the center of the seal up, incrementing the hammering.
I was also thinking on adding an intake valve so that portion of the pressure created by the hammering would not return via the supply pipe