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Offline jason-23

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To all my garage printers...
« on: May 07, 2012, 03:54:47 PM »
What do you or have you done to drain your washout booth? do you run it to your washing machine drainage or did you t in at the drainage pipe or did you do something totally different?


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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2012, 04:39:17 PM »
Some screen over the slop sink drain

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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2012, 04:50:06 PM »
If it can't be easily plumbed, how about draining into a barrel and pumping that with a submersible pump?
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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2012, 05:26:51 PM »
Currently what i am doing is not right and Im not going into details. I would either have to have a plumber come in and put a T in the drain system or run a hose or pipe to the washer drain but that would be up hill. I have though of using a sump pump and tank type thing but I was just wondering if any one has had this issue and what you did.

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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2012, 06:43:10 PM »
Check out Mooseman's sludge bucket thing... that is a great filter... do that and half your problems should be over with.

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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2012, 07:36:22 PM »
I have everything drain into a keg bucket that has a combination of mesh and filter media over the top to prevent any solids from going through. Then I have a sump pump in there and it pumps the cleanish water into my sink.

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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2012, 08:13:05 PM »
i had mine all plumbed in and i just have a small piece of screen glued over the drain to keep big stuff out. haven't had a problem yet and its going on 3 years.
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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2012, 06:43:13 AM »
Washable furnace filter material cut to fit in the drain holes of my utility sink. You'd be surprised at how fast it plugs up with crap.
One thing you don't mention is if you're on septic or sewer. If I were on septic, I'd drain into a settling tank with a submersible pump raised above the bottom, or two tanks in series kind of like septic tank baffles with the pump in the second one. That, and loads of Rid-X and a tank pumping every few years. If your drain field sh!ts the bed, you're looking at some money. I found that out the hard way in my last house.
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Re: To all my garage printers...
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2012, 01:31:23 PM »
Washable furnace filter material cut to fit in the drain holes of my utility sink. You'd be surprised at how fast it plugs up with crap.
One thing you don't mention is if you're on septic or sewer. If I were on septic, I'd drain into a settling tank with a submersible pump raised above the bottom, or two tanks in series kind of like septic tank baffles with the pump in the second one. That, and loads of Rid-X and a tank pumping every few years. If your drain field sh!ts the bed, you're looking at some money. I found that out the hard way in my last house.
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