My Ghetto Pumping Setup

Pics were taken in horrible lighting using the auto settings on my camera. Cropped if necessary and then resized and saved as jpeg using GIMP.

1) A view of my whole pumping setup, minus the spring clamp used for crimping the sucking tube closed. This is an aquarium siphon tube purchased at PetsMart for something like $7. The tubing is automotive vacuum tubing. I had it handy. The T fitting was purchased at Checker Auto Parts or AutoZone. Most auto parts stores should have an aisle containing such fittings.

The base is a slice of 2” schedule 40 PVC pipe, glued on with epoxy and then contoured. I did the shaping with a belt sander, but a file and sand paper would work as well.

The vacuum gauge is an old one, most likely from the 1950’s or 60’s. Seems to work fine when used checking engine vacuum. I got it for nothing from the remnants of a yard sale. Some other neat old tools came with it.

2) Close up of the connection. This was a quick fix that I never bothered modifying because it worked so well. That’s a faucet washer over the T fitting. I don’t know the size. I fished it out of my parts box. It fits snuggly into place inside the tubing stub and against the end of the blue cap. The connection doesn’t leak. Notice the washer is beveled on the bottom, which probably helps it seal against the cap.

3) The connection assembled as in use.

4) The base of the aquarium tube. Notice how nicely the PVC fits. My PVC pipe had been exposed to the elements and had slightly yellowed. You can see the white is where I did the contouring.

5) This is a 1.75” ID tube. I obtained the tubing itself as a free sample, then put a ring on the base and glued on the closest fitting end cap I could find at the hardware store. I splurged on a brass nipple, probably because it didn’t cost much more than plastic.

hobby,

Are you still using this same gear and tube size? Have you made larger sized cylinders or have you gone to commercial products? Your set up doesn’t look too ghetto at all.

Looks pretty smooth, hobby. I so admire you clever, mechanical people. If I made a pumping setup, it would look like dish washer.

It looks real good looks a lot like my setup but I do not have a gauge yet and I made my out of white PVC not clear PVC.

Where did you buy the clear PVC I haven’t seen any around?

I’ve never pumped seriously, only for a few months at a time here and there. I didn’t want to and couldn’t afford to spend $$ on some fancy pumping outfit, so I went the Tom Hubbard route. Worked fine.

My very first pumping experimentation was with the left over 1.5” ID tubing I had from making my homemade Bib hanger. I had 12” or so remaining because I had bought more than needed. I taped up the end of an old vitamin bottle until the neck fit tightly in the tube end. I poked a small hole in the bottle and added a small flap over it made of tape. I managed to stuff my lubed, limp penis in the bottom end and sucked on the hole/flap. It worked but wasn’t the least bit convenient for regular use.

I’m not in the commercial PE game. I like Tom Hubbard’s approach to PE. Cheap, simple and available to everyone. Tom once gave me an award. I’m proud of that.

The tube is an aquarium siphon gizmo. Check Petsmart and similar stores. The largest size is 2”, which has 1/16” sides, so you get 1 7/8” inside diameter. That’s if I remember correctly. If you’re interested do an advanced search on my name limited to this forum. I’ve posted about my pumping equipment before.

The 1.75” ID free tubing sample was obtained from a company online. That was a year or two ago. Even if I were to dig up the name, I wouldn’t post it here. If you’re searching you might check what the model rocket crowd had to say back then on Usenet about tubing. That’s enough of a clue and how I discovered the sample offer.

Yea Thanks a lot I am going to get a real pump probably today. I have a friend who works at a porno shop and he can get it for half price, but if he don’t come through I will be getting the gravel cleaner thing you have. I really don’t like those flimsy cylinders that comes with the penis enlarger because they always break on me and if I get the pump from my friend I will probably just use the gauge of of it.

Is the gravel cleaner thing pretty tough?
How sturdy is the gravel cleaner?

I bought a gravel tube for about $30 at one of those *Mart stores. It is sturdy enough to handle the 5”hg.

My setup is slightly different. I have not made and end flange like hobby but now I’m inspired to make one. I just sanded the end of my filter tube until it didn’t cut me. I have a mity-Vac pump that I picked up at a hardware store or an auto parts store for about $20 on clearance because the package was open.

There are “reducers/adapters” for connecting different sizes of tubing that came with the pump and that is how I connected the smaller tubing for the mity-Vac to the larger tube of the gravel filter. The thing I don’t like is that I don’t have a valve yet so the pump has to stay connected to the tube while pumping.

You don’t have a valve to release the vacuum?

I use a three way thing like Hobby has on his set up but made out of brass that I bought from Wall-Mart where the tubing is in the fish department.

And I put a piece of tubing on it and I just put my finger or a piece of tape or I use a piece of rubber to plug the hole and that is how I release the vacuum

That is very similar to my own set up, that’s been in use for almost two years. The automotive gauge looks exactly like mine. It works perfectly. However, your connector looks better than mine. I placed some clamps to hold the tubing snugly.

Avocet8,I hate to side track this thread but would you build me a pump?I need a new dishwasher desperately! :)