Kodak siphon to faucet madness

pstake · Apr 24, 2012

Just got one of these.

How do people attach the siphon hose to a faucet?

I tried bathroom and kitchen sinks, and the bathtub spout, and the spout to which the hose from my washing machine (in the basement garden-hose type fitting) ... to no avail.

It won't fit snugly on anything, so as soon as I turn on the water, the hose end comes unattached.

I suppose I could get a hose clamp but it seems like this thing was designed to attach to something?

Any insights?

cblkdog · Apr 24, 2012

Duck tape or maybe a plumbing supply might have something. Good luck, I had to move to a different room.

erikg · Apr 24, 2012

It's supposed to slip on to all sorts of faucets, like those that you describe, but it is just a friction fit. If you can't jam it on so it stays, even if the water pressure is gentle it could be that the rubber is shot. I have a couple of these and I just swapped out the hose for a short length with a garden-hose coupling on the end. I think I used washing machine hook up hose. A hose clamp to keep it on the siphon end. They work great, just keep the water flow strong enough so the siphon works, otherwise the tray or tub will overflow.

Ben 4 · Apr 24, 2012

Mine Works in the Laundry Room

Mine fits snugly (well relatively snugly) over the utility sink faucet in the laundry room. It's like this one:

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That 's where I use it, so I didn't even try it elsewhere!

--Ben

Mainecoonmaniac · Apr 24, 2012

I have a faucet with threads on the end and the rubber part of the tray siphon is folded over to add stiffness. It seems to stay on pretty well. You might want to change the coupling on you siphon to fit your particular faucet. It's worth getting to work. They're pretty effective.

smcd17 · Apr 24, 2012

To get mine to work i bought a threaded brass nipple that fits on to sink and a length of tubing. If I recall it ran under $5 total.

Mainecoonmaniac · Apr 24, 2012

Can you use the word "nipple" on APUG? Is nipplage allowed? This is a family website after all.

Oren Grad · Apr 24, 2012

The faucet in my darkroom sink has threads at the end and the hose from my tray siphon fits reasonably snugly over it. But I still need to use a clamp to keep it from popping off.

kb3lms · Apr 24, 2012

I pu a new hose on mine and put a portable dishwasher fitting on the bathroon sink. It fits in place of the regular filter screen. You put the corresponding coupling on the siphone hose. When I want to use the siphon I just slide it on. Less than $10 at Lowes in the plumbing hardware section. You do not ever need to remove the fitting on the sink.

Konical · Apr 24, 2012

Good Afternoon, Pstake,

In the plumbing supply section of your favorite emporium, get a simple adapter which screw into or onto your faucet fitting on one side and has a male garden hose fitting on the other. Put a female garden hose fitting onto the siphon hose (or use clear plastic piping as a replacement), and you should be set. You may also want to consider a "Y" hose fitting which can have the siphon on one outlet and a plain hose on the other. That makes it handy to switch from the siphon and use the hose for hand washing, cleaning processing tanks/reels, etc.

Konical

madgardener · Apr 24, 2012

Are those still available new? I would love to get one it would make a world of difference for me.

pstake · Apr 24, 2012

Does anybody want to share a photo of your siphon set up?

No snobbish judgments from me about the composition of your siphon set-up photos. I promise.

Thanks to everyone who responded. Told me essentially what I needed to know.

pstake · Apr 24, 2012

madgardener said:
Are those still available new? I would love to get one it would make a world of difference for me.

madgardner, I'm not sure if they are available new. I got mine used.

cmacd123 · Apr 25, 2012

I got mine very used, and it had a plastic fitting that attaches very snugly to a garden hose thread, although perhaps that was the doing of the original owner.

Bill Burk · Apr 25, 2012

pstake said:
Does anybody want to share a photo of your siphon set up?

No snobbish judgments from me about the composition of your siphon set-up photos. I promise.

Thanks to everyone who responded. Told me essentially what I needed to know.

Here's my siphon set-up. The tray has to be kept above the outflow, so I built a small wooden table for the purpose.

I have a hose coming in with a threaded end. The adapter connects reliably. It also connects snugly to the laundry tub faucet (like what Ben 4 showed). I have another water-powered gadget, a magnetic stirrer, that I use the Kodak siphon connector on... The stirrer gets connected to a cut-off rubber hose.

I also have a Paterson faucet adapter that I can't get to connect to anything. I just keep it for decoration.

Bill

I work for Kodak, but the opinions and positions I take are my own and not necessarily those of EKC.

Sirius Glass · Apr 25, 2012

I had to use a plastic pipe adapter and a rubber adapter. The rubber adapter slipped barely over the bathtub faucet and then I used a radiator clamp that I turned the screw as tightly as I could.

cmacd123 · Apr 25, 2012

Mine in use
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...15603161694.2002736.1573530156&type=3&theater

MattKing · Apr 26, 2012

cmacd123 said:
Mine in use
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...15603161694.2002736.1573530156&type=3&theater

Kodak tray siphon mounted on a Kodak tray, if I am not mistaken

ic-racer · Apr 26, 2012

I cut the rubber end off and put a right-angle nylon nipple-to-thread adapter. I put an adapter so I can switch the output of the tempered thermostatic supply easily between the siphon and my print washer and the Jobo, etc.

Hal Reiser · Apr 26, 2012

My setup is exactly the same as ic-racers'. I have two sill cock valves attached to my sink which are connected to my thermostatic control valve. The snap nipple is screwed directly onto the sill cocks and the snap couplings are attached to the hose of my tray siphon, film washers, and my working hose that I use for general usage.

RalphLambrecht · Apr 26, 2012

i woul;d try gardena

pstake · May 7, 2012

Thought I would share what I eventually came up with. Forgive the convenient iPhone photos. Used a bag of brass plumbing fittings I got at a garage sale for 50 cents.

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