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Moseso

Moseso

Jedi Knight
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Or, my little holiday present to myself.

Prologue:
I run a guitar repair shop. In any stringed instrument shop, humidity control is <span style="font-style: italic">CRUCIAL.</span> During the winter in my area, humidity can drop into the single digits, which could spell disaster for my customers' wooden instruments. For the last 18 years, during the snow season, I have been enslaved to the daily -- sometimes, twice daily -- filling of two console humidifiers with 20 - 40 gallons of water/day. Every day. If I don't do it, somebody else has to. There is no holiday.

FINALLY, I got smart!

Pic #1 is just a set-up shot of one of my rigs.
Pic #2 shows the Fluidmaster 400 toilet tank fill valve which is now employed to maintain the proper water level inside the beast, 24/7/365, AUTOMATICALLY.

I'M FREE!!!!!!!!!
FREEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I just fired 'em up yesterday...)
 

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Resourceful engineering is always a good thing. Well done; enjoy your well-earned relaxation!
 
Nice! you seem flushed with pride!
 
Great idea, I have a friend who owns a guitar shop and he has the same problem. I'll have to tell him of your inovative fix.
 
Moses,Great idea! Here in the South, we have heat pump systems. They work fine, but in the winter when the heat cycle is on all the time, the air in the house gets too dry for me. I would like to have a humidifier in the house, but don't want to be bothered with constantly adding water, you have given me an idea how to solve the problem, thanks. PJ

ALSO, Thanks for the clip of you playing at Dave's BBQ, It was very enjoyable. PJ
 
Walter -- Paul --
It's even CHEAP! The plumbing was done with 3/8" OD PVC "refrigerator ice maker" tubing, a couple of cheap compression fittings and the fill valve can be found at the hardware store for five or six bucks. If I hadn't had to run 80 feet to get to the water, the whole project would have been $40 or $50 for both tanks.

A guitar store owner saw it yesterday, and invited me up to do his...
 
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