home made water bottles?

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Originally Posted by Muskrat24

Whats stopping the water to drip out? The instructions said you could use the spout off of a old waterbottle but they were just using a piece of plastic pipe?

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what stops the water?

on modern bottles they are a ball valve...

on older units, they worked off a vacuum concept

and if you want heavy duty water bottles and food hoppers....

3" PVC drainage pipe and ends


for a water bottle...use a sipper valve with threaded end

pipe with end...drill end to accept the sipper valve

asf's...I would put the bottle right through the lid so i didn't have to go into the cage to fill it

for a food hopper: 3" pipe, 1/2" wire mesh and a big hose clamp..once again, I would run it down through the lid so i can fill it outside the cage

just cut a hole through the mesh top of the lid and use a single bolt through the pvc pipe so it dangles/swings.

could you post a picture of that?

I always like to see others setups, to see if I could make improvements.

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Originally Posted by pliskin

could you post a picture of that?

I always like to see others setups, to see if I could make improvements.

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my stuff is all racks now.

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Originally Posted by pliskin

anyone know where I can find some metal tubing like they have in the store bought water bottles in this picture?

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/img_0095.jpg

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www.mcmaster.com

Pitoon

hey, thanks Pitoon.

that's a cool site, tons of stuff. pretty pricey , though.

I've decided, however, to just buy a automatic watering kit instead. it may just be worth the extra money instead of filling bottles all the time.

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Originally Posted by suzuki4life

for a food hopper: 3" pipe, 1/2" wire mesh and a big hose clamp..once again, I would run it down through the lid so i can fill it outside the cage

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I had problems with smaller asfs fitting through 1/2 inch mesh so I had to go with 1/2 x 1/4 for the food part and 1/4x1/4 for the rest of it.