In today's world, a large number of people have personal use. auto. But given the number of cars on the road, not every one of their owners has in use garage where you can store useful things for your iron horse. It is far from a secret that a car requires personal care; it is especially pleasant to drive a clean car. To wash the machine, it is not necessary to constantly stand in line for the washing, or to buy a washing machine. In order to save money and time, you can make a mini-wash do it yourself, it fits in the trunk, and you can use it anywhere.
Materials and tools:
- The plastic canister having two mouths
- Hose from the washing machine 2 m long
- Watering gun on a hose
- Quick-release fitting
- Tubeless valve for tires
- Rubber gasket
- Coupling
- Screwdriver and drill
- Rubber glue or sealant
- Car compressor
Step one. Mounting the air inlet.
After collecting all the materials and preparing the tools, you can get to work. First of all, the author removes the lid from one neck (responsible for draining). Picking up a drill with a thick drill, he makes a hole in the center of the lid.
Note: when the sink is ready, when using the canister, you will need to put it on its side, with the hole for the bay down (so that the water comes out under pressure). Therefore, the cover of this outlet is left to interface with the hose.
Further, a sealant is used, it is smeared with a valve flange for the wheels (it is also a spool).
The valve for the wheels is pressed into the hole of the drilled cover. Now let the sealant dry.
After the sealant has hardened, the author puts the cover in its place (drain hole).
Step Two Mounting the water outlet.
In this step, it's time to prepare the second cover. It is removed, and a drill is again taken in hands, only the pen drill is now used. A hole is made in the cover in size corresponding to the diameter of the coupling.
A connector is inserted into the hole prepared in the cover.
For better fixing on the cover, the joint of the coupling, as in the previous step, is watered with silicone sealant, after which this cover also needs to be dried.
Next, it's time to prepare the hose, a nut with a fastener is cut off from the bent end.
Fastening is no longer needed, only a nut is needed, the reverse side of the coupling is attached to it. The connection is also secured with sealant.
Having dried all the connections, you can put the cover back in place.
Step Three Watering gun connections to hose.
The author came up with the idea to use the hose precisely from the washing machine for a reason, such a hose has the ability to withstand high water pressure. The cut-off part of the hose fits into the fitting nut.
The hose cut is mounted in the quick-release fitting using a special mount.
The main fitting and its nut are twisted.
Now you can connect the fitting with a watering gun on the bar.
The fourth step. Hose connection with canister.
In order to prevent air from escaping during the supply of water under pressure in the future, the author inserted a rubber gasket of the required size into the second nut of the hose.
The nut is screwed onto a quick-release fitting.
On this assembly homemade mini-sink is ready!
Step Five Wash test at work.
Water is poured into the canister.
Now you need to get the car compressor and connect it to the valve, the author pumps air into the canister. The author uploads about one atmosphere, if you overdo it, then the canister can swell, or even burst.
It remains to press the start button on the watering gun and start washing the car.
The use of such a sink has many advantages, it does not need a lot of water, and it does not take up much space. She can wash not only a car, but also any thing that is not possible to wash at home. You can also take it with you to the cottage for washing windows or, for example, a boat. The main thing is that such a do-it-yourself wash is done.