Comments on: How to fill a 5-gallon jug from a drinking fountain

By: sqyntz

sqyntz — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:48:00 +0000

the solution would have been less elegant and more complicated if an engineer had been involved…

By: Veronica Beaty

Veronica Beaty — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:38:00 +0000

Reddits seems to have agreed its Northern Arizona University, which means more than one college has chosen that decorating scheme. Yikes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11xdwn/college_engineering/

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Lookit you, being all practical and stuff.

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Why do I now feel the need to go to the bathroom?

By: .

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:55:00 +0000

It’s those stunted American-style gallons.

By: hymenopterid

hymenopterid — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Conveniently located 600 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan.

By: TheMadLibrarian

TheMadLibrarian — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Reasonably sure that bottle isn’t big enough to be 5 gallons.

By: Steven Lord

Steven Lord — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:29:00 +0000

Carry a folded/rolled piece of wax paper that you can roll into a makeshift funnel (or fold via origami into a makeshift cup) as needed? Durable, lightweight, waterproof, and inexpensive.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:04:00 +0000

In Central Michigan.

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:59:00 +0000

I have a brain I can sell you first, so that the information lands somewhere.

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:52:00 +0000

Sounds complicated, Instructable needed.

By: chuckmi

chuckmi — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000

This looks like Central Michigan University did in 1990. Anyone know where this is?

By: Dave Pease

Dave Pease — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000

if i had to do that, i’d push the flow button with one hand while holding the water bottle with the other hand such that the water lands inside the bottle.

By: mmrtnt

mmrtnt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:36:00 +0000

As someone who has regularly faced the challenge of refilling a water bottle from a drinking fountain while out on a bike ride (without carrying tubing and a funnel), I had hoped this would supply some clues.

It’s cute, but it doesn’t.

By: Samuel Valentine

Samuel Valentine — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Over carpeting. Fountains are jerks.

By: Mike Naylor

Mike Naylor — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:17:00 +0000

You increase the stream velocity by loosening the 4-5 screws at the very bottom of the fountain, and removing the metal shield. On the upper front of the fountain as you face it will be a screw. Twisting it back and forth increases/decreases the force of the water stream.

I know this because I mounted a fountain on the side of my house, under my patio, to get my kids to drink more in the summer (and to keep muddy footprints in my house to a minimum).

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:55:00 +0000

I want to see the scenes of comedy starting in 20 minutes.

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Over carpeting?

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Odds that “NOBODY TOUCH THIS!” was shouted down the dorm hallway before the engineer went back to his room?

By: Brian Easton

Brian Easton — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Plenty of fountains shoot beyond the bounds of the basin.

By: Pete Jacobson

Pete Jacobson — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:38:00 +0000

It was turned 180.

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:33:00 +0000

We’re missing the step where the water was induced to squirt beyond the bounds of the fountain.