https://www.instructables.com/id/Field-Sink/
This is a nifty way to save water and not contaminate your hands after washing.
It uses an outboard motor fuel priming bulb as a foot pump. Brilliant!
Cheap Hand Wash Sink With Foot Pump
- LittleJack
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Re: Cheap Hand Wash Sink With Foot Pump
I've been using a variation on this for years now, and it works amazingly well.
To simplify things, I made a 2 bucket system without the table - fresh clean water in the bottom bucket with a hole near the top for the input to the pump, and a gray water bucket on top.
I've never used all of the 4.5 gallons I put into the fresh water bucket, but I do camp solo. I use it for hand and face washing, brushing my teeth, and cleaning dishes. At the end of the burn I just pour the remaining fresh water into the gray water, put the lid on, and put it in the back of my truck to be poured into the sewer when I get home.
To simplify things, I made a 2 bucket system without the table - fresh clean water in the bottom bucket with a hole near the top for the input to the pump, and a gray water bucket on top.
I've never used all of the 4.5 gallons I put into the fresh water bucket, but I do camp solo. I use it for hand and face washing, brushing my teeth, and cleaning dishes. At the end of the burn I just pour the remaining fresh water into the gray water, put the lid on, and put it in the back of my truck to be poured into the sewer when I get home.
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- BBadger
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Re: Cheap Hand Wash Sink With Foot Pump
Ooo, I like this! Nice and portable too!
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