Hi Nick and all, Regarding your battery pump mods...it sounds pretty good to me. Can I suggest that you place a plastic saddle (those used to secure garden watering system hoses) over the switch to protect it. Switch operation is just a matter of flicking under the saddle. Still on this, could I ask you to turn this into a small "how to" article, perhaps with a diagram for the club newsletter. I would also like to send it to a few sea kayak operators in Victoria. Norm and I were down at Phillip Island last weekend for a big Victorian Canoe Board Sea Assessment weekend (I'll write it up tomorrow and post it on this board). There were lots of paddlers turning up for assesment in plastic hired boats without ''Hands-free" pumping arrangements. Fitting an electric or foot pump to a plastic hire boat that suits everyone can be a problem and it seems to me that this little battery unit may be the answer. Norm and I thought the switch INSIDE the cockpit on the pump body may be a problem in big seas but you seem to have overcome that with an exterior switch...so well done. While on the subject of "hands-free" pumps, the paddlers at Phillip Island who didn't have them really stood out in rescues and re-enter and roll exercises. Their boats were unstable, some had to raft up with others to pump out with 2 handed gusher pumps and they all took a bloody long time to be ready to rescue others in the rescue scenarios we gave them......AND.....this was all in flat water - the seas were uncharacteristically calm in Bass Strait! Because of the flat conditions we marked hard, something we'll be doing at the Rock 'n Roll Weekend too. The message, therefore, for NSWSKC members wanting to be assessed for Sea Proficiency at the Rock 'n Roll Weekend is : FIT A ''HANDS-FREE'' PUMP NOW if you don't already have one. The pump Nick is using may be just what you need. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Nick Gill <nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au> To: NSWSKC <nswseakayaker_at_nswseakayaker.asn.au>; paddlewise <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Date: Sunday, 10 October 1999 10:47 Subject: [nswseakayaker] waterbuster modifications >in case anybody is interested. > >I actually prefer foot pumps but for various reasons currently have an attwood waterbuster pump in the boat. That's the self contained pump that runs off d cells. volume is lower than a rule type pump but the self contained design is handy > >problem is it only has a switch on the pump body. You really need a deck switch on a sea kayak. I have added one, experimenting with modifications to a waterbuster. > >I bought a waterproof toggle switch from dick smith electronics plus cable, the necessary spade connectors etc. > >to the waterproof switch I soldered a length of cable and araldited and sikaflexed the joints. I then toook the original switch off the pump (it just unscrews) and inserted a blanking grommet in the hole. I then ran the wires off the switch through the grommet (having punched a hole in it with a hot nail). I connected the relevant sized spade connectors to the wires and attached them to the internal pump connections. I then smeared sikeflex all over the grommet and wires where they went through the grommet - inside and out. I probably should have used some araldite here as well for some stiffness. > >So now I have the attwood pump with an external switch off a length of cable. I then just drlled a hole for the switch just behind the seat , screwed the switch in and screwed on the rubber boot, alI with plenty of sikaflex. I then reintalled the pump in my cockpit, behind the seat. Voila, a deck switch powered waterbuster with no new drill holes in my rear compartment. > >Hopefully the pump will not leak, we'll see. > > >nick > >Nicholas Gill >School of Geography and Oceanography >University of NSW >Australian Defence Force Academy >Canberra ACT 2600 > >Ph. 02 6268 8317 >Mob. 041 7659440 >Fax 02 6268 8313 > >Email: nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au > >*** The NSW Sea Kayak Club mailing list - comments are the authors' *** > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
-----Original Message----- From: David Winkworth <storm_at_acr.net.au> To: Nick Gill <nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au>; NSWSKC <nswseakayaker_at_nswseakayaker.asn.au>; paddlewise <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Date: Wednesday, 13 October 1999 19:21 Subject: Re: [nswseakayaker] waterbuster modifications G'day from sunny (Well, not today) Tuross. I have just been on the phone to Mike Foskett at Batemans Bay Power and Sail. (Where Nick got his pump.) The recommended retail price of the Atwood Pump is $100.15. Good Ol' Mike will sell them to club members for $90. While we were down at Phillip Island, I saw a modification for the pump which used a rechargeable 6 volt battery which fits in the battery compartment. Might be a good option. (Dave, it was Ian Ribbins' pump.) Norm >Hi Nick and all, > >Regarding your battery pump mods...it sounds pretty good to me. Can I >suggest that you place a plastic saddle (those used to secure garden >watering system hoses) over the switch to protect it. Switch operation is >just a matter of flicking under the saddle. > >Still on this, could I ask you to turn this into a small "how to" article, >perhaps with a diagram for the club newsletter. I would also like to send it >to a few sea kayak operators in Victoria. > >Norm and I were down at Phillip Island last weekend for a big Victorian >Canoe Board Sea Assessment weekend (I'll write it up tomorrow and post it on >this board). There were lots of paddlers turning up for assesment in plastic >hired boats without ''Hands-free" pumping arrangements. Fitting an electric >or foot pump to a plastic hire boat that suits everyone can be a problem and >it seems to me that this little battery unit may be the answer. Norm and I >thought the switch INSIDE the cockpit on the pump body may be a problem in >big seas but you seem to have overcome that with an exterior switch...so >well done. > >While on the subject of "hands-free" pumps, the paddlers at Phillip Island >who didn't have them really stood out in rescues and re-enter and roll >exercises. Their boats were unstable, some had to raft up with others to >pump out with 2 handed gusher pumps and they all took a bloody long time to >be ready to rescue others in the rescue scenarios we gave >them......AND.....this was all in flat water - the seas were >uncharacteristically calm in Bass Strait! Because of the flat conditions we >marked hard, something we'll be doing at the Rock 'n Roll Weekend too. > >The message, therefore, for NSWSKC members wanting to be assessed for Sea >Proficiency at the Rock 'n Roll Weekend is : FIT A ''HANDS-FREE'' PUMP NOW >if you don't already have one. The pump Nick is using may be just what you >need. > >Dave > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Gill <nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au> >To: NSWSKC <nswseakayaker_at_nswseakayaker.asn.au>; paddlewise ><PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> >Date: Sunday, 10 October 1999 10:47 >Subject: [nswseakayaker] waterbuster modifications > > >>in case anybody is interested. >> >>I actually prefer foot pumps but for various reasons currently have an >attwood waterbuster pump in the boat. That's the self contained pump that >runs off d cells. volume is lower than a rule type pump but the self >contained design is handy >> >>problem is it only has a switch on the pump body. You really need a deck >switch on a sea kayak. I have added one, experimenting with modifications to >a waterbuster. >> >>I bought a waterproof toggle switch from dick smith electronics plus cable, >the necessary spade connectors etc. >> >>to the waterproof switch I soldered a length of cable and araldited and >sikaflexed the joints. I then toook the original switch off the pump (it >just unscrews) and inserted a blanking grommet in the hole. I then ran the >wires off the switch through the grommet (having punched a hole in it with >a hot nail). I connected the relevant sized spade connectors to the wires >and attached them to the internal pump connections. I then smeared sikeflex >all over the grommet and wires where they went through the grommet - inside >and out. I probably should have used some araldite here as well for some >stiffness. >> >>So now I have the attwood pump with an external switch off a length of >cable. I then just drlled a hole for the switch just behind the seat , >screwed the switch in and screwed on the rubber boot, alI with plenty of >sikaflex. I then reintalled the pump in my cockpit, behind the seat. Voila, >a deck switch powered waterbuster with no new drill holes in my rear >compartment. >> >>Hopefully the pump will not leak, we'll see. >> >> >>nick >> >>Nicholas Gill >>School of Geography and Oceanography >>University of NSW >>Australian Defence Force Academy >>Canberra ACT 2600 >> >>Ph. 02 6268 8317 >>Mob. 041 7659440 >>Fax 02 6268 8313 >> >>Email: nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au >> >>*** The NSW Sea Kayak Club mailing list - comments are the authors' *** >> >> > > >*** The NSW Sea Kayak Club mailing list - comments are the authors' *** > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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