Float pump out cups on 1800's
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:28 am
Hi guys! The real reason I came in from the shop....anybody found a pump
that actually fits these undersize pump out cups Murphy made for the
1800's??? You'd think if you were going to make 'em you'd make them to fit
the standard Beckson pump and not some oddball size that fits nothing on the
market like plugs. and the nice new auto plugs with the check ball built in.
The MAM cups are even smaller than the CAP cups that you use the neck down
adapter on the Beckson pump. I talked with Robin about this a year or so ago
and he told me they neck the pump down with a piece of rad hose. I'm not in
to this adaption stuff and looking to see if anyone has found a pump that
fit in the cups and actually works. Not into making those cup plugs either
with a plastic cap from a chair leg and a piece of bungee....but is someone
knows a pump available will save me a days work and $200 worth of EDO cups
to get me in the water. Some days I wish MAM would just buy off the shelf
items and not make stuff themselves. Can't see a labour/materials savings
when cups and lake-n-air plugs are less than $5 each in quantity.
I will post a list up later tonight or tomorrow of the things I've found,
over the last ~ 32 hours (2 days) of shop time, in need of doing on the
prebuilts for anyone else in the same boat. All in all really happy with
what I've seen in these last few out of the good prebuild factory. About two
FULL days now going over these things. Probably another full one yet before
I can start making spreaders and mounting struts....gotta get the axles
drilled for zerts next...already slotted the torque plates to ease wheel
removal/installation.
Cheers,
Wayne
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that actually fits these undersize pump out cups Murphy made for the
1800's??? You'd think if you were going to make 'em you'd make them to fit
the standard Beckson pump and not some oddball size that fits nothing on the
market like plugs. and the nice new auto plugs with the check ball built in.
The MAM cups are even smaller than the CAP cups that you use the neck down
adapter on the Beckson pump. I talked with Robin about this a year or so ago
and he told me they neck the pump down with a piece of rad hose. I'm not in
to this adaption stuff and looking to see if anyone has found a pump that
fit in the cups and actually works. Not into making those cup plugs either
with a plastic cap from a chair leg and a piece of bungee....but is someone
knows a pump available will save me a days work and $200 worth of EDO cups
to get me in the water. Some days I wish MAM would just buy off the shelf
items and not make stuff themselves. Can't see a labour/materials savings
when cups and lake-n-air plugs are less than $5 each in quantity.
I will post a list up later tonight or tomorrow of the things I've found,
over the last ~ 32 hours (2 days) of shop time, in need of doing on the
prebuilts for anyone else in the same boat. All in all really happy with
what I've seen in these last few out of the good prebuild factory. About two
FULL days now going over these things. Probably another full one yet before
I can start making spreaders and mounting struts....gotta get the axles
drilled for zerts next...already slotted the torque plates to ease wheel
removal/installation.
Cheers,
Wayne
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