Water water everywhere, except in my kitchen...

[annp]

I have the kitchen from h@@@

I need to come up with the same thing as a flojet and 5 gallon bottle, but in this size bottle:

http://www.waterstill.com/waterbottles.htm

check out item 2G or 1G

Any of you brilliant people out there have an idea?

Ann

[Dr Jim]

I have the kitchen from h@@@

I need to come up with the same thing as a flojet and 5 gallon bottle, but in this size bottle:

http://www.waterstill.com/waterbottles.htm

check out item 2G or 1G

Any of you brilliant people out there have an idea?

Ann

Ann -

I'm using a Flojet pump with a 2.5 gallon polycarbonate jug purchased from Fred Meyer and it works perfectly - as long as I remember to drop in about 1/2 gallon of water per day.

The Flojet bottle adaptor is pretty clever, and consists of a hollow plastic tube with a float, and a bottle cap which slides freely on the tube, so it should work with pretty much any size bottle that has a 48mm cap size, no matter what shape or capacity it is.

One thing which unnecessarily frustrated me was that the Flojet uses 1/4" polpro pressure tubing and 'John Guest' push-on fittings - but no one in Seattle seemed to stock the adaptor to go from 3/8" NPT (National Pipe Thread - what most machines have as their water input) to JG push-on, I called around all of the espresso and home-brewing suppliers and drew a blank.

Finally, in a desperate attempt to find some sort of lash-up that I could MacGyver into place until I could order a JG adaptor from the 'Net, I went to Home Despot - where to my utter amazement I found an entire assortment of JG-compatible push-on fittings being sold under the 'Watts' brand. Hah! one dollar and seventy-eight cents later I was the proud owner of a 3/8" NPT male to 1/4" JG push-on adaptor which went immediately onto my 'new' Conti lever machine and works like a champ.

Cheers

Jim

[annp]

That works for me...

Thanks!

[JonR10]

The Flojet bottle adaptor is pretty clever, and consists of a hollow plastic tube with a float, and a bottle cap which slides freely on the tube

The length of the tube will stick out the end, so the overall height of the setup will be the same as it would be with a 5-gallon bottle. (Or am I mistaken...?)

One thing which unnecessarily frustrated me was that the Flojet uses 1/4" polpro pressure tubing and 'John Guest' push-on fittings...

Jim - did you know that the flojet output has a built-in adapter from 3/8 tubing to 1/4? It works out best if you remove the 1/4" adapter and run 3/8" tubing (and then of course you still need the adapter to the machine inlet - but that's available from John Guest or Watts...