How to make a magic endless flow faucet for garden decoration

To decorate the landscape on your site, in addition to flowers, shrubs and garden figurines, you can use a magic faucet. This is an unusual device, which is a watering tap levitating in the air, not connected to a pipe, from which water flows endlessly. Naturally, this is a visual deception, knowing the operating principle of which you can make a magic faucet with your own hands.

Materials:

• watering tap;
  
• transparent tube;
  
• aquarium pump with fitting -
  
• decorative stones;
  
• bucket;
  
• Hot melt glue.

The process of making a magic tap

From the end of a transparent tube slightly smaller than the outlet of the watering tap, you need to make longitudinal cuts in a circle in increments of 3-5 mm.

A plastic fitting from the pump is put on the other end of the tube. If it is larger in diameter, then the pipe needs to be heated, and if it is smaller, then wrap electrical tape around it.


The fitting for connecting a garden hose is removed from the watering tap. The end of the tube with slots is inserted into it.

Then it is glued into the fitting with hot glue.It is necessary to plug its hole, but so that the water coming from below from the pump can flow out through the slots. After this, the fitting is screwed back onto the tap using a clamping nut.


Then, closer to the bottom, you need to cut a hole in the wall of the bucket to enter the pump cable.




The pump is attached to standard suction cups to the bottom. The plug with the cable comes out through the hole, and it is sealed with hot-melt adhesive.

For a better visual effect, you can choose an antique metal bucket and insert the first one into it, but this is not necessary.

Next, it wouldn’t hurt to decorate the bucket by gluing wooden chips, branches, bark, pine cones, acorns, etc. onto its perimeter walls. Then a tube with a tap is connected to the pump located at the bottom. The top of the pump is laid with decorative cobblestones. Large stones are laid first, then smaller stones.



After this, water is poured into the bucket, but slightly below the top level of the stones. When you plug in the pump, it will begin pumping water through the tube. When water reaches the tap, it will flow out through the slots and flow evenly down the pipe. Since it is transparent, it seems that it is just a stream of water. To prevent the tube from being visible, it is important to use a pump of sufficient capacity. For a regular 1/2" garden faucet, a pump of 1400 l/h is sufficient. In order not to reveal the secret, it would be better to hide the pump power wire in the ground.

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