fat sac/waterbed fittings

[Andrew]

anyone know where i can get about a half a dozen of these things cheap? all the sites that i find on the net, are only sold in a kit with the drain adapter and some kinda waterbed cleaning stuff...

[jc]

RE: fat sac/waterbed fittings

If you have a waterbed store nearby is your best bet. I have found caps and plugs there before, not sure what you need though.

[Sinkoumn]

RE: fat sac/waterbed fittings

I don't know if it still works, but we used to just use plastic milk container caps, but like JC said, I'm not too sure what you're looking for the cap or the inner plug?

[Andrew]

RE: fat sac/waterbed fittings

thanks, but i need the fitting that u attach the hose to to fill the sac (sorry for the confusion)

[ck1105]

When I bought my first set of fat sacks the pump and the sacks didnt come with any blue things, so I emailed the company and within a week or so they had 4 of them in my mailbox. After such good results from skylon I sent emails to other compaines and now have had and lost several of them. I offered to pay but they just sent out the parts with no questions asked. I guess you could try that...

[Andrew]

good idea, Thanks

[jhiestand]

Andrew -- Not sure if you're set on the waterbed fittings, but in my experience those things don't make for such a stellar connection. Kind of scary, but the flimsy sac openings let me pull those blue fittings off by hand with little force, regardless of how 'tight' I made them. What I eventually opted for is the gray colored, male 3/4" barbed pvc fitting pushed through the bag inlet. A clamp over that makes it a major solid connection. The one potential drawback is the clamp over the bag threads may degrade the threads over time, but I don't plan on using the bags in any other capacity so it's not a problem for me.

[Andrew]

even better, i'll just run to home depot today.

i thought that the blue fittings would kinda "lock" in place, but if they aren't very secure then i'll definetly get the regular old barb fittings

[ck1105]

is this for a auto ballast system? or are you making pumps? what I did for my auto system was used 3/4 pvc cut a 4" peice and used a hair dryer to heat up the sack opening then I forced the pipe in the hole and clamped my hose over the pipe. drain pump i just shove in the hole the same way and clamped it then taped the heck out of it for protection.

[Andrew]

its for auto ballast........
i figured the holes would be just the right size to not fit any kind of plumbing application and i really didn't wanna drag a sac down the aisle of home depot lol, but if fittings or pipe will work then i'll be fine