Rope Washing In Wales

[ben_m]

Hi everyone.
A few weeks ago I posted a survey regarding the redesign of rope washers as well as asking for some photographs of various examples from different caving clubs (This is for my A Level Product Design coursework!). I thought it'd be ideal to get at least one example from each major caving region - currently I have photos of the washers at the TSG, NPC, YSS and the Belfry. I currently don't have any photographs of any rope washers from South Wales however, so if anyone would be able to provide me with any or point me towards clubs that have rope washers then that would be excellent. I had a chat with a friend and he reckons that SMWCRT Might be my best bet, so if there are any members who could grab me a few photos of the rope washer and it's internal workings then that would be excellent!
Cheers,
Ben

 

[Fjell]

Given it’s A level, you are going to have to get past the HSE issues, not least the use of water. You can’t be peeing hundreds of litres of water down the drain to wash a rope, even if this is what people do. Clearly what you need for urban use is a recycling and solids filtration system. For long term use you could install a UV scrubber to keep the water more sterile.

What about micro-plastics? Do you need a filter for that? A reusable filter you can get for washing machines might be worth bonus points.

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Simplistically an old washing machine pump takes suction from some sort of collecting tub below the washer and pumps it via a filter to the washing bit. My observation of Design at school is that it doesn’t even have to really work, it’s all about the fab write up and “learnings”. I mean, who’s going to say if it’s any good? It’s no longer the Woodwork of my youth.

 

[ben_m]

Cheers for these links, I shall have a read through and a see. Ripping a washing machine up for some useful components is also a very good idea. Yes, there is some emphasis on producing nice pretty paperwork, but I still think and have experienced that having a good functioning simple product gets far better marks than an extremely complicated conceptual product which when handed in is nothing more than a pile of half completed scrap!
Here is the project I did last - two caving lamps. I designed them to be as simple as possible, with just one brightness setting of 200 lumens but with a phenomenal run time of over 12 hours. Nothing too complex at all, but it got 25/25 marks!

 

[snebbit]

Re Welsh rope washers, SWCC have one at Penwyllt. I've only seen it once though and never used it, but someone to get in contact with anyway

 

[Ian Ball]

There used to be a page on the chelsea setup which was a bit

Cheers for these links, I shall have a read through and a see. Ripping a washing machine up for some useful components is also a very good idea. Yes, there is some emphasis on producing nice pretty paperwork, but I still think and have experienced that having a good functioning simple product gets far better marks than an extremely complicated conceptual product which when handed in is nothing more than a pile of half completed scrap!
Here is the project I did last - two caving lamps. I designed them to be as simple as possible, with just one brightness setting of 200 lumens but with a phenomenal run time of over 12 hours. Nothing too complex at all, but it got 25/25 marks!

That's because they are deserved, very cool.

 

[Fjell]

Cheers for these links, I shall have a read through and a see. Ripping a washing machine up for some useful components is also a very good idea. Yes, there is some emphasis on producing nice pretty paperwork, but I still think and have experienced that having a good functioning simple product gets far better marks than an extremely complicated conceptual product which when handed in is nothing more than a pile of half completed scrap!
Here is the project I did last - two caving lamps. I designed them to be as simple as possible, with just one brightness setting of 200 lumens but with a phenomenal run time of over 12 hours. Nothing too complex at all, but it got 25/25 marks!

There was a scary paper presented at the UIS conference on things like micro plastics and other pollutants from cavers that I thought was going to conclude with caving should be banned, but it stopped just short. Phew.