-------------- Original message from Todd Bartrim <bartrim@gmail.com>: --------------

Another advantage to using one of these surgery pumps;
    When you're at a fly-in with your cowl off and somebody says "Hey, where'd you get the neat little pump?", you get to reply with a cool story about your Laproscopic surgeon friend!
    Us instrument mechanics like to use cool, big words to confuse others so they think we actually know what we're doing.

Todd        Dazzle with brilliance or baffle with BS... all the same

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:07 -0700, Todd Bartrim wrote:

Hi Ed;
    Realistically, this is probably the best way to go about this, but if Dave's surgery pumps can survive and have an effect, it would have the advantage of being light. In an ideal installation the water would be by far the heaviest component, so once it was consumed (such as on initial climb-out) there wouldn't be allot of unnecessary weight left to carry around.

Todd


On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 06:43 -0400, Ed Anderson wrote:

Not certain how well it would work for the cooling application, but in the past I used windshield washer water pumps (and their plastic fluid containers) to inject water into a turbocharged 1976 Honda Civic.  The pump system  was designed for “hostile” environment use under the hood of a automobile.  Not certain whether it develops enough pressure to give a good atomized spray.  But, they were relative cheap and available.

 

Ed