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Capping an artesian well The Fisherman 10-07-2007
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Posted by The Fisherman on October 7, 2007, 10:38 am
Hello all,

I have an artesian well that has been disconnected from my house and
is now only a 1 5/8" inch PVC pipe sticking out of the ground in my
front yard.

It flows at about 5 gallons per/minute.

I currently have a plastic cap on it with a hose clamp to stop it from
running.

I'd like to put a hose bib on it so that I can use the water in
various uses when I want to.

How in the world can I work with this? How can I glue anything to this
pipe while it's running?

Is there some method that would allow me to cap this thing properly
where I could then add on to this system? Getting a valve into the
line is my problem.

How can I put a valve into this line?

Posted by dpb on October 7, 2007, 10:49 am
The Fisherman wrote:
> I have an artesian well that has been disconnected from my house and
> is now only a 1 5/8" inch PVC pipe sticking out of the ground in my
> front yard.
>
> It flows at about 5 gallons per/minute.
>
> I currently have a plastic cap on it with a hose clamp to stop it from
> running.
>
> I'd like to put a hose bib on it so that I can use the water in
> various uses when I want to.
>
> How in the world can I work with this? How can I glue anything to this
> pipe while it's running?
>
> Is there some method that would allow me to cap this thing properly
> where I could then add on to this system? Getting a valve into the
> line is my problem.
>
> How can I put a valve into this line?

If the pressure is low enough the hose clamp works, a Fernco coupling
would probably also work.

--

Posted by DerbyDad03 on October 7, 2007, 10:50 am
> Hello all,
>
> I have an artesian well that has been disconnected from my house and
> is now only a 1 5/8" inch PVC pipe sticking out of the ground in my
> front yard.
>
> It flows at about 5 gallons per/minute.
>
> I currently have a plastic cap on it with a hose clamp to stop it from
> running.
>
> I'd like to put a hose bib on it so that I can use the water in
> various uses when I want to.
>
> How in the world can I work with this? How can I glue anything to this
> pipe while it's running?
>
> Is there some method that would allow me to cap this thing properly
> where I could then add on to this system? Getting a valve into the
> line is my problem.
>
> How can I put a valve into this line?

This oughta work:

http://www.fernco.com/QCHose.asp


Posted by Merlin on October 7, 2007, 12:24 pm
wrote:

>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have an artesian well that has been disconnected from my house and
>> is now only a 1 5/8" inch PVC pipe sticking out of the ground in my
>> front yard.
>>
>> It flows at about 5 gallons per/minute.
>>
>> I currently have a plastic cap on it with a hose clamp to stop it from
>> running.
>>
>> I'd like to put a hose bib on it so that I can use the water in
>> various uses when I want to.
>>
>> How in the world can I work with this? How can I glue anything to this
>> pipe while it's running?
>>
>> Is there some method that would allow me to cap this thing properly
>> where I could then add on to this system? Getting a valve into the
>> line is my problem.
>>
>> How can I put a valve into this line?
>
>This oughta work:
>
>http://www.fernco.com/QCHose.asp


Thanks to all of you that answered this thread. One guy mentioned
wet-use PVC cement. I've never seen any. Does anyone know of a
particular brand of this that works well?

I would like to build onto this pipe and would like to glue it if
possible.

The clamp on rubber fittings will work for now.

Thanks again!

Posted by Slob on October 7, 2007, 2:18 pm
Merlin wrote:

>
> Thanks to all of you that answered this thread. One guy mentioned
> wet-use PVC cement. I've never seen any. Does anyone know of a
> particular brand of this that works well?
>
> I would like to build onto this pipe and would like to glue it if
> possible.
>
> The clamp on rubber fittings will work for now.

get a small length of rubber hose that just fits inside existing pipe.
this will allow water to flow through this hose and keep edge of pvc dry
for gluing. Slide the fitting over this sleeve and prime and glue
treaded fitting onto existing pipe while most of the water flows through
the hose you have jammed in. remove hose when done and add spigot to
treaded connection. I got the wet-use glue at HD last time I worked on
well, cpl weeks ago because of drought and too much watering blew the
pvc threaded fitting out of the top of the jet pump because of sucking
air I think. Switched to galv to straight pipe to house.

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