PELA Oil extraction Pipes Don't Float!

[Appledore]

Emptied the foul water from the bilge this afternoon with my Pela 650 and then dropped the extraction pipes into the dinghy only to watch them slide over the transom and into the river! I expected them to float, but no, they sank in 30 feet of water!

So now I have a Pela650 which I can't use (at the moment). Does anyone know if the tubes are available anywhere? I really don't want to fork out £60 or so for a new Pela. Any kind suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Geoff:nonchalance:

 

[VicS]

Emptied the foul water from the bilge this afternoon with my Pela 650 and then dropped the extraction pipes into the dinghy only to watch them slide over the transom and into the river! I expected them to float, but no, they sank in 30 feet of water!

So now I have a Pela650 which I can't use (at the moment). Does anyone know if the tubes are available anywhere? I really don't want to fork out £60 or so for a new Pela. Any kind suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Geoff:nonchalance:

You could easily coble something together toreplace the tube but if you have lost the fitting as well not so easy Prhaps a laboratory rubber bung ( or preferably a neoprene one) could be used to adap ta new tube to fit the reservoir.

Screwfix do what appears to be identical for £50

 

[rjandhl]

Spare parts are available for them from Pela UK
http://www.cdet.co.uk/catalogue/pelapumps.asp

 

[Appledore]

Spare parts are available for them from Pela UK
http://www.cdet.co.uk/catalogue/pelapumps.asp

Many thanks. I should have looked harder! £22 for the pipes and fitting, but cheaper than a new one, LOL. I will remember to fix some cork or something to them next time!

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

I used my Pela to extract seawater from an inaccessible cavity repeatedly over a few months. I then put it away after I lifted out.
When I came to use it again I found that the metal reinforcement in the tube had rusted, puncturing the outer plastic in a number lf places, so if it is used for salt water I would recommend rinsing and drying it and perhaps introducing some WD40.

 

[savageseadog]

You can use the old fashioned curtain wire with a little bit of bodging at the extractor end.

 

[Appledore]

You can use the old fashioned curtain wire with a little bit of bodging at the extractor end.

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately everything slipped overboard! I might try that, using one of those rubber bungs they use when making beer/wine in the glass demijohns.

 

[VicS]

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately everything slipped overboard! I might try that, using one of those rubber bungs they use when making beer/wine in the glass demijohns.

Necks of demijohns vary a bit but ITYWF that a size 25 bung ( diameter of the narrow end) will fit except that the neck of my oil extractor is not perfectly round internally.

Oil will attack ordinary red rubber which is I why I suggested a neoprene bung if possible.

Rubber bungs are difficult to bore, even with laboratory cork borers, unless you can freeze them in liquid nitrogen and drill them.
You might be be able to get one that is bored which will adapt using a tapered tubing connector from a DIY store

 

[Appledore]

Thanks Vic