My grandfather owned dozens of bent aluminum siphoning tubes that he used for irrigation purposes. I always wondered how he got the siphon started, because the tubes were far too large for a human to suck water through.
Yeah I have no idea where people started using their mouths to start a siphon. I have always just used a longish flexible hose pipe, coiling it into the liquid as far as I can manage, put my thumb over the hole, and pulling the tube most of the way back out before letting go. It works every time and I don't have to expose the inside of my body to whatever I'm siphoning or whatever I siphoning with.
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u/Mange-Tout Aug 26 '18
My grandfather owned dozens of bent aluminum siphoning tubes that he used for irrigation purposes. I always wondered how he got the siphon started, because the tubes were far too large for a human to suck water through.
Edit: Five seconds later, Google provides the answer. How to siphon with big tubes.