Add valve stem to your garden pump sprayer
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Here is a simple way to add a valve stem to your garden sprayer. This will keep you from pumping over & over, but keeps the hand pump an option when your away from your compressor. * Warning* Don’t bypass or manipulate the pressure popup valve!
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This is awesome! I just saved myself about $350. I was about to go buy a gas powered sprayer and thought “wait a second, look on CZcams for a solution with pump sprayer.” Whudyuknow, here’s your video!
Thanks for posting! Very easy and I used 1/2” bit with same valve size as you and it hills pressure nicely.
I just added valve stems to my garden sprayers. I ordered 8 valve stems purchased from Amazon and a 11.5 mm bit also from Amazon. I had 4 sprayers from last season.. I already had a compressor and an air chuck, I used channel locks to aid in pulling the valves through the holes. I am using one sprayer exclusively for weed killers, another for Home Defense insecticide for controlling insects in and around the house. No more bug contracts. I bought a 2 gallon sprayer from Home Depot to use on my wife’s 150 roses and other plants. My existing sprayers (4) are all 1 gallon . By dedicating one sprayer to each solution I can rinse after each use and nor risk cross contamination.. I use the 2 gallon sprayers for treatment of my entire garden. My father used Spray-N-Grow and had an amazing garden but my garden requires a lot of spraying since it is a foliar spray product. I was about to buy a battery powered sprayer when I found this video. The concern I had was all that pumping. I an 77 years old.. and the pumping is a challenge. My wife can assist with the spraying now that the pumping issue is solved. I may add a longer hose to allow her to cover more area without moving the tank.
I hadn't thought about using different spray rigs for different chemicals. I may start doing that. It'd save a lot of time cleaning and make sure I don't cross contaminate.
@@diybydad You can get by with two sprayers: one for herbicides, and one for everything else. It is absolutely essential that you not use your herbicide sprayer for anything else. The tiny traces of herbicide that you can't reliably clean out can really harm your plants, if you try to clean it out and then use it for insecticide or fungicide. So you really, *_really_* need to have a separate sprayer labeled "herbicide only."
@@ncdave4life battery would have been the best way
Thank you! Hand pumping my sprayer was a big pain in the butt.
Amazing! Because of it's title, I actually looked over this video six times before I realize that this is exactly what I'm looking for! 😲🤨😖
👊😎: For the ingenuity and presentation quality!
😜: For poor "titling" on this one.
I was just looking on how to fix my pump sprayer because it wasn't holding the air when I came across your video about adding a valve stem. What a great idea. I'm going to try this. Thanks for your tip.. Love it..
Great!
I did this with a 7/16" drill bit using it to file a little extra off. Even if all you have is bicycle pump you can get pressure quicker and easier than you can with the integrated pump.
The pump on my sprayer didn’t work anymore. I did this & filled it with my compressor. Worked like a charm!
Great! Thanks for sharing and congrats on finding this solution to a problem!
yours probably simply needs lubrication to work again properly. they are very very simple units
Love it! This will make my life a lot easier, never even thought of it!
Thanks for your feedback! More videos coming soon
Exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks!
This is really easy to do and requires very little to do it , if you don't have a drill use a small screw and a screwdriver to run the screw into the tank with and buy a small chainsaw file it's long and round about $ 3 you can make the hole larger this way with the file ,, just not too big ! Also there is a tool that you can buy that's pretty small called a valve stem tool that screws onto the valve stem threads so it makes it real easy to pull the valve e stem through the plastic tank with it's about $ 2 and as for having an air compressor to pump it up with you can use a 3 foot long piece of air hose purchased at any auto parts place and using two small hose clamps just attach two air Chuck's ( self Locking type ) and push the air Chuck's into the air line and tighten the hose clamps down to keep them tight ! Now using a car tire or lawn mower tire you can clamp one air chuck to the inflated tires valve stem and the other air chuck to the tank sprayer and BORROW AIR from the tire to the tank sprayer yes it works !
Thanks Mark & good ideas. I hadn't thought about the double air chuck idea to borrow air..... that seems like it would work
Thank you for you helpful detailed instructions and videos
Well done bro! The stupid thing is that these tanks are $10 on Amazon, but I REFUSE to send this to a landfill over a single gasket (that I can't seem to find!). Pressurizing the tank sounds easier anyway. I would caution folks NOT to overpressurize. Old plastic could be brittle/dangerous. Thank you for posting.
you can buy gaskets by size. next time get a rough measurement of the ring diameter/outer diameter, and the thickness. bring your old one even if it's broke and just ask a real hardware shop for a new one. any real hardware store with a good worker will find that o ring in 10 seconds. i bet it's something super simple and cheap like 1" or 1.5" typical class. silicone. lubricate with pet. gelly
Grab ya a cordless Ryobi hand-held air compressor, works great without running back and forth to a air hose.
That’s what I’m doing works great!
This is a good idea thanks works well but if you try on backpack sprayer from HarborFreight don’t do it doesn’t work now I have a valve stem sticking out my tank but this works for pump up bug sprayer.
Thanks for the tip!
Do you know why it doesn't work for the backpack unit? I have never tried and you have me curious
@@diybydad no not sure why but I put my ryobi portable air pump on it tank puffed up but won’t spray until I pump the handle then it sprays…
I ran into the same issue, the reason for that is some of the larger backpack sprayers have a separate chamber within the main vessel. So rather than pumping dozens of times to pressurise the entire sprayer, you can reach the desired pressure with just a few pumps. Only the chamber within gets pressurised.
What I end up doing is ditching the manual pump and that chamber all together, and use that location to screw on my own retro fitted cap that has a quick connect garden hose connector installed
Thanks for that
I did this to a Lesco sprayer several years ago. I used one of those chrome threaded valve stems. I did it so I could get WAY out spraying herbicide acrost a ditch. I inflate it to 40 psi and I can see it swell up, lol, with this much pressure. Also the bottom of the tank will like bulge out. I hope it doesn’t blow up on me. I wonder 💭 how much pressure it will take??? I know a two liter Coke bottle will take over a hundud psi.
My sprayer had a pressure relief valve and will only allow a certain amount of psi (I THINK around 30 psi..... but I don't recall)
Excellent
1 gal HDX sprayers work a lot better and last longer
I am guessing you have to keep going back to your air compressor to refill.
Yes. The pressure seems to last longer if there is fluid is only 1/4-1/2 full
Anyone know if there is a cap with the same threads as the mouth opening is? I want to close it off completely and do away the the pumper.
Interesting idea. I don’t know if a cap to plug it off
Maybe can recycle one from a beverage bottle or liquid container
Been looking but still no luck. I might try good ole epoxy to seal it
@@kiddadd it's like a 3.75" coarse thread on a blow mold seal. probably would be easy enough to find a pvc cap for it or other plastic. the only thing i can think of that's kind of the same size (looks alone) the threads on a lid for a handle of cat litter
❤how much psi it needed to full
I beleive they generally hold up to 25-40 psi, but I've only done this modification on tanks that have the relief valve that releases air over the factory recommended
Use a STEP DRILL BIT......WHEN YOU DRILL PLASTIC
or you could run a metal bit backwards, several different bits smaller leading up to the size you need, etc. cleaning the hole is almost as important gotta have a nice sharp hobby razor and get the burrs off
Anyone else here to make one into a scuba tank
Something that looks easy enough for anyone to do. But it's actually pretty hard if you don't own and expensive drill. Those sizes are almost impossible to find at a local target. I ended up totally ruining a perfectly good sprayer trying to find a hole big enough to accommodate this valve. Be careful. This video is missing a break down of what you'll need. Here I'll save you some time. YOULL NEED
1) Sprayer ($10 HOME DEPOT)
2) Portable air compressor pump $20 ( Amazon)
3) Drill $30 (hopefully you have one if not $30-100)
4) DRILL BIT FOR size required for project "29/64" $15.99 ( home depot)
5) Tubeless Tire Valve $5 (Auto Zone). I know your probably thinking...... I should just buy and electric chargeable sprayer. Warning if you don't have a great drill and a compressor laying around it may not be worth it to try this project.😬
I appreciate the feedback Latasha
You not very handy are you?
This is very bad advice. Never pressurize with a compressor unless the sprayer is designed for it. Extremely dangerous!!!
I appreciate your feedback. I believe the tank is designed to be pressurized and has relief valves built into it, so the method you add pressure is the variable. I haven't had a problem with the few that I've used.
Thanks for watching Jim.
I use this same sprayer in my fresh frozen hashing setup