| Beads
One of the biggest problems we had was finding a good sourse for high quality beads. Most of the so called beads available are nothing more than "Pellets" used in the injection molding industry. They are cheap, they float, but are not very uniform in size and with a lot of defects will get trapped in the 40 thousands slots in the well screen pipe. So several of us on other forums went on a search for good cheap beads. You want beads that float, they need to fill the top half of the barrel, about 4 or 5 cubic feet for a 55 gal barrel.
We explored all sorts of stuff, got all sorts of samples, injection molding pellets, poly BBs, and poly doll stuffing. pellets were do crapy, BBs to expensive, but the poly bead doll stuffing worked out to be the best. It was the most uniform in size, with the least amount of rejects, and ordering it online in big bags, was the cheapest tp buy. |