http://www.sscentral.net/images/aphlabled.jpg
I didn't have time to label every part just yet, but this only took a few minutes and I'm hoping it'll help. Each PVC size, or part size, is color coded (all PVC is schedule 40 just like before, it's the normal white PVC). In the future article revision, the parts will be labled.
I also should say, just like in modding, do not hesitate when making homemades. Hesitation is the enemy! I designed this in the store based on what was in stock, there are many other combinations.
Green - 3"
Red - 2" (you actually will not be needing 2" PVC, this stuff steps up the 3/4" to 3". You could be like most others and make it have 2" PCs, but they would have to be longer to hold the same amount of water.)
Orange - 3/4"
Blue - 1/2"
Note where the 1/2" PVC steps up to 3/4". I did that for several reasons, one being that the pump would have been 1/2", and another being that 1/2" check valves are cheaper (at least where I live).
Also, the tubing barb screws into the 1/2" female-threaded couple if you didn't notice. Please look at the other, unedited picture in the APH article if you need to see something covered up by the colors too.
I hope this helps, I may edit something in later.
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- SSCBen
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I should have said this in my first post. Just go out and buy the parts that look like that in the size it says they are. That's the easiest thing to do. When I made this I had little idea at all what the parts were called. Honestly, you don't need to know what they were called, just buy the right ones and put them together correctly.
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- Crashdummy
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I made a home made once. It was an innertube. I cut it, plugged one end, and attempted to make the other end a super charger style think. I plugged up the part that you would fill with air at and all I had to do was plug the last open end (Tie wrapped) up to a thing for hoses that made water balloons easy to attatch (sp?) and I had an ultra powerful water worm. Too bad it has a rip now.