Water butt/tank problem

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Water butt/tank problem

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This is the butt/tank my friends at Permaculture have (click for larger pics) :-

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The problem is they want to connect it to a hose to water the veggies. Does anyone know where we can get a connector to attatch a hose to this tap? They haven't managed to find anything to convert the large tap to a hose connection.
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Well, as an old car bodger, I'd start thinking scrap yard, car water hose, jubilee clips and reducers! :?
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That looks like something I used to deliver chemicals in, to sewerage works, we called them IBC's. We had them on the back of a flatbed truck, six or eight of them, then pumped them out into the customers tank. We carried loads of pipework and joined it all together if we couldn't park close to the tank. I seem to remember we had some adapters because some of the inlet pipes were a different size to our outlet valve.

Maybe you could look for industrial places that have them in their yard, chemical works, etc. Sorry I can't be of more help.

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Actually that did help :) I didn't know they were called IBC's. Found some suppliers of bits, looks like about a tenner for the connectors they need.
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Raven,
I just did a search on ebay fourteen to choose from on there. )t'
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My daughter has at least three of these in her garden and got the bits at B&Q. She linked the three together and just has a tap on one. She has so much water storage she could supply the village!
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If that is a thread on the tap ,it looks like a washing m/c type size. So yep any shed should sell the bits.
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A plumbers merchant might help you more than B&Q or Homebase etc etc

if the tap can be unscrewed from the resevoir take it along to a supplier and they should be able to offer you a solution.

Also consider aquatic centres as they stock that corrugated pipe used in tanks ponds etc.
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