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Jiggle syphon
- chime 8y agoThese work great! Bought one years ago to empty out our bird feeder in mosquito season: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BG1X54/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BG1X54/ Only annoyance is that small leaves and twigs get stuck in the ball chamber but it’s easy to clean it with pinkie finger or a stick.
- userbinator 8y agoThe actual term for what is essentially a check valve in a bottom of a pipe appears to be "inertial pump", as searching for that phrase brings up many relevant results, including this one with a good illustration of how it works: https://www.solinst.com/products/groundwater-samplers/404-inertial-pump/datasheet/ https://www.solinst.com/products/groundwater-samplers/404-in...