Wednesday 10 October 2012

The Water Wagon


This is something that has become popular among the third world but I think it would be great to have on in the "modern" western countries too.

www.metaefficient.com/food-and-drink/hipporoller-water-carrier.html

Unfortunately they don't make them over here. So I designed my own. I took a 200 litter tank that used to have grapefruit concentrate in it-Yum-Yum, and added a hub onto it. The hub is actually from the electric scooter that I cannibalized the make parts of the wind turbine generator.





Basically you can take any tiny hub off a scooter or perhaps a wheel barrow or something. It should ideally have some existing holes in it where it was bolted toger. Many smaller hubs are two "bowl" like shapes screwed together. Anyway I took one of these hub halve "bowls" and screwed it to a piece of wood. Then I glued the wood to the top and the bottom of the tank in such a way the the center of the hub which is made to house an axle is centered within the cylinder top and bottom(in this case the tank). Then just weld a frame as you see one one above. It consists of two bolts that slip into the center of the hub and but up against the wood board that the hub is screwed onto. The top of the handle frame is what was the steering from the scooter.
It carries up to 220 liters which is technically 220kg plus. I imagine you would not want to fill it all the way up unless you were going down hill the whole time- unless ofcourse it is too steep down hill too. The rest is up to how ever many horse powers you have stored within your buns.



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