How do you make homemade GH Farm drip kit?

Light House

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Does anybody know how to make the GH Farm airpump to drip system kit? I see the kits online for about 20$ and I will be making about 20 of these and figure I should be able to make them at the local home depot.

Anybody know of a diagram, or parts list that I will need to build the device? If your not familiar it pulls water up from the 5 gal bucket and creates a top drip effect.
 
i have made these. its not that hard.

get some 10mm tube cut it a bit longer than the height of your 5 gal bucket. by a t piece connector for the top then cut another piece of the tube to bend around for a drip ring and poke some holes in this one.

then at the bottom of the 10mm tube come up about an inch from the bottom and cut a hole just big enough to insert a 4mm airline. the air forces bubbles up the tube carrying water with them.

things to watch out for are having the airline too close to the bottom of the 10mm tube because the air will try to come out below instead of going up. and you will need to have your 5 gal buckets at least half full most of the time to keep good flow as they dont work real well once the water level gets low.

i suggest making one and testing it and making sure it works then just use it as a template for the other 19.

also you will notice the gh ones have a second larger hard plastic pipe and everything just slides into that it helps keep everything nice and straight and neat. you will probably be able to make all 20 for $20
 
im lazy so i didnt get you photo's but if you really really absolutely must have them i will get off my arse and snap you some shots lol
 
Thank you so much that was what I was looking for. Will be making them easy:

1 10mm (bucket length) tube
--drill airline to insert at bottom
1 10mm to (smaller) t for halo
1 halo

Sounds pretty easy to me instead of buying the kit. So I take it the air inlet is going to be temperamental on the 10mm tube, would it be better to use a rigid pvc tube?
 
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