Can I build my own river?
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Trichloroacetaldehyde chic said:
I spent years convinced I could make a battery toy car run forever if I put an extra motor in as a dynamo to run the drive motor. My dad promised me £200 if I could get it to work.
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stard. 
I spent a saturday morning arguing with my dad doing the same thing in the 80’s. I said it was just a matter of pushing my lego creation a bit faster to get it going on it’s own.B
stard. 
Trichloroacetaldehyde chic said:
I spent years convinced I could make a battery toy car run forever if I put an extra motor in as a dynamo to run the drive motor. My dad promised me £200 if I could get it to work.
Bstard.
I was fascinated by transformers that could turn one voltage into another. If I could reverse the transformer that ran my calculator, I would be able to make mains from a PP3 battery and power the world with it. Scientists were obviously too busy to think of this answer to the energy crisis. I blew a lot of sB
stard. t up when I was a kid....rxe said:
I was fascinated by transformers that could turn one voltage into another. If I could reverse the transformer that ran my calculator, I would be able to make mains from a PP3 battery and power the world with it. Scientists were obviously too busy to think of this answer to the energy crisis. I blew a lot of st up when I was a kid....
Also electrolytic capacitors go bang VERY loudly.t up when I was a kid....
I created a stream starting from a top pool, down a stream to a middle pool, then again a stream to a bottom pool.
Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:51
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:56
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:57
Promised Land said:
How?
No seriously, how does that work?
eta - i get it is some kind of optical illusion . . . still wondering though
Edited by Digger on Wednesday 24th February 00:59
skilly1 said:
I created a stream starting from a top pool, down a stream to a middle pool, then again a stream to a bottom pool.
Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Crazy golf? Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:51
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:56
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:57
Very cool water features!
skilly1 said:
I created a stream starting from a top pool, down a stream to a middle pool, then again a stream to a bottom pool.
Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Excellent, thank you. Bentonite is what we've used in the pond. Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Equus said:
If so, I'd have thought your best bet would be to have ponds top and bottom to act as 'reservoirs' then pump from the bottom pond to the top, so that the top pond is continually overspilling to feed the 'river'. The bottom pond could be replaced with a pumpwell, if you don't want a second pond
If they can do it on Goldrush, I'm sure a pistonheads company director could sort it in an afternoon.I used to go to a house (to maintain the swimming pool heating) that had a stream right around the outside, it was more of a feature than something trying to look natural and ran over a few weirs etc on it's way around then was pumped back up again but the fall was less than 200mm all the way around. The weirs formed sections for fish etc (they had a heron problem though).
Looked great though and as a impressionable young lad it was very much the place the person who had 'made it' would own. Just looked on Google maps and think I have found the house but no sign of a stream so maybe it's been removed now which is a shame
Looked great though and as a impressionable young lad it was very much the place the person who had 'made it' would own. Just looked on Google maps and think I have found the house but no sign of a stream so maybe it's been removed now which is a shame
Digger said:
Promised Land said:
How?No seriously, how does that work?
eta - i get it is some kind of optical illusion . . . still wondering though
Edited by Digger on Wednesday 24th February 00:59
Not in the sense the water runs up hill as it cannot.
Hence why the camera is set up there, but IIRC it is 3 separate parts made to look like one.
skilly1 said:
I created a stream starting from a top pool, down a stream to a middle pool, then again a stream to a bottom pool.
Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Please tell me this is a personal crazy golf golf course in your garden and not a commercial affair! Pumps in bottom pool pump water to top of a rock waterfalll. Someone mentioned dirty water pumps, we used 2 big dirty water pumps, 3 phase, you want volume of water, not high pressure so they work well.
You need wiers at end of each pool/stream to hold water should pumps stop, otherwise bottom pool floods.
Stream and pools have slate chipping a in to make look nice, also it holds fine particles and makes it run clear.
You wants pools at least 1m deep so water does not get too hot and you would get a lot of algae.
I used a company which lines the pool and streams using heavy duty plastic welded together, they also put a protective material under and over the plastic to stop it getting punctured.
I was going to line with a special self healing clay liner called bentonite but my walls were too steep for it. Sounds like it would be good for your project.
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:51
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:56
Edited by skilly1 on Wednesday 24th February 00:57
Amazing work!
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