Ram Pumps

Create your own ram water pump

Why buy ram pump products premade when you can make one? Instead of looking for ram pumps for sale, consider crafting your own ram water pump. Designing one is simple, and using it can be cost effective and vital to your industry. Your pump will require some back pressure to begin working. It will also need to be manually started several times in order to remove the air from the piping, but once you have it going it's as easy as can be.

Hydraulic ram water pump applications include using water from a spring or stream in a valley and pumping it to a village or irrigation system on the hillside. It can also be used for delivering drinking water from a source. The advantages to a ram pump design include that they are inexpensive to make, they are easy to design and install, they don't use a nonrenewable resource (e.g. petrol or diesel) nor do they require electricity. They also require minimum maintenance and are pollution free.

To make your own hydraulic ram pump:

1. Look at instructional material on making ram pumps.

2. Calculate your flow rate to determine your supply needs.

3. Purchase and install your materials.

 

Be informed about creating a ram water pump

If you are planning on designing and making your own ram water pump, make sure that you have reviewed available instruction material and have all of your necessary parts in place.
Try: The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service gives an image key and a specific component list to make your new ram water pump. They also give an image by image description of how the ram water pump works. Water For The World also provides information on designing a hydraulic ram pump.

Purchase PVC fittings to make your ram water pump

One option for your ram water pump design is PVC pipe and fittings.
Try: Protank Ltd. offers you a variety of industrial plastic pipe for your ram water pump project. United States Plastic Corporation offers a variety of PVC pipe and fittings. The Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company is another pipe retailer, as is Diamond Plastics Corporation.

Consider a galvanized steel pipe ram water pump instead

Your other option is using galvanized steel pipe for your ram water pump design.
Try: Allied Tube & Conduit's Gatorshield® Galvanized Steel Tubing is a patented triple layer Flo-Coat® corrosion and rust resistant pipe option. Mid-West Pipe & Supply offers you galvanized steel pipe, fittings, and valves. Another supplier option is Koger Air Corporation.

 

• If you don't feel up to making your own pump, there are ram pump manufacturers and ram pump suppliers available to prefabricate ram water pumps for you.

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