Hey Casey, I had a question regarding taking the water out of the tube for the thermal/gamma test as I’m doing a project that I can’t discuss here lol. But when taking the water out, we put a compressor tube about 110ft into the tube to the bottom of the shaft, and air compress it out with a 70lb weight that hold the tube downwards. This has created problems as access isn’t the best to reach in and we can’t have the tube fly out of the pipe at that PSI. Wondering what ur company does for this case?
I am assuming your are using 2 inch thread, schedule 40 CSL pipe and as such, you should be using a fitting that connects to the top of the hose. The hose passes through a round clamp at the top of the fitting that keeps air and water from leaking past the outside of the hose . The fitting should have a nipple to connect the air line.
@@CaseyJones-EngineerThe state I’m in allows for PVC pipes to be placed in the shaft. The issue I’m having is when taking the water out of the PVC pipe, the only way for us to blow it out is by sticking a long 110ft hose into the shaft PVC pipe to the bottom of the pipe. We hook up to a compressor and then attach a rope to the hose that’s in the PVC with the weight right at the top of pipe holding the hose downwards, to act as someone pushing the hose down so it doesn’t shoot up 110ft. What I wanna ask I guess is, is there another way in taking the water out of the tube when it’s a PVC pipe. Sometimes the pipes are 5ft above the shaft, and sometimes there 8ft deep into the shaft, and requires us to add a 8ft extension PVC pipe for us to reach at grade level. So enforcing/securing the pipes is a little difficult when there is not even a cage to support the pipe in that 8ft upper area. Making blowing out the water a little tricky. I know other states use metal pipes instead, and I agree, much better. I’ve never seen the attachment that you are referring to, with the nipple. If you could explain that process a little more I’d love to hear about it. Your videos are amazing btw, very informative about these testing as not a lot of people do or know how to do these tests.
You know what I realized, is what if we pumped the water out rather than air compressor it? How much horsepower does a pump need to have in order to suck water upwards 110ft?
@@CaseyJones-Engineerdid you see the previous comment lol? Not tryna bug you, just wanna know of some ways in depth more of how the water can be taken out?
Hey Casey,
I had a question regarding taking the water out of the tube for the thermal/gamma test as I’m doing a project that I can’t discuss here lol. But when taking the water out, we put a compressor tube about 110ft into the tube to the bottom of the shaft, and air compress it out with a 70lb weight that hold the tube downwards. This has created problems as access isn’t the best to reach in and we can’t have the tube fly out of the pipe at that PSI. Wondering what ur company does for this case?
I am assuming your are using 2 inch thread, schedule 40 CSL pipe and as such, you should be using a fitting that connects to the top of the hose. The hose passes through a round clamp at the top of the fitting that keeps air and water from leaking past the outside of the hose . The fitting should have a nipple to connect the air line.
@@CaseyJones-EngineerThe state I’m in allows for PVC pipes to be placed in the shaft. The issue I’m having is when taking the water out of the PVC pipe, the only way for us to blow it out is by sticking a long 110ft hose into the shaft PVC pipe to the bottom of the pipe. We hook up to a compressor and then attach a rope to the hose that’s in the PVC with the weight right at the top of pipe holding the hose downwards, to act as someone pushing the hose down so it doesn’t shoot up 110ft. What I wanna ask I guess is, is there another way in taking the water out of the tube when it’s a PVC pipe. Sometimes the pipes are 5ft above the shaft, and sometimes there 8ft deep into the shaft, and requires us to add a 8ft extension PVC pipe for us to reach at grade level. So enforcing/securing the pipes is a little difficult when there is not even a cage to support the pipe in that 8ft upper area. Making blowing out the water a little tricky. I know other states use metal pipes instead, and I agree, much better. I’ve never seen the attachment that you are referring to, with the nipple. If you could explain that process a little more I’d love to hear about it. Your videos are amazing btw, very informative about these testing as not a lot of people do or know how to do these tests.
You know what I realized, is what if we pumped the water out rather than air compressor it? How much horsepower does a pump need to have in order to suck water upwards 110ft?
@@CaseyJones-Engineerdid you see the previous comment lol? Not tryna bug you, just wanna know of some ways in depth more of how the water can be taken out?
@@amirhamdan2965 You should not be using PVC pipes. They debond too quickly. Use steel pipes and push the water out like I mentioned.