AgTalk Home
AgTalk Home
Search Forums | Classifieds (88) | Skins | Language
You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )

Any airlock/rotary valve experts out there?
View previous thread :: View next thread
   Forums List -> Machinery TalkMessage format
 
farmnsew
Posted 3/27/2024 19:24 (#10683171 - in reply to #10682736)
Subject: RE: Any airlock/rotary valve experts out there?


N E Iowa
campbell - 3/27/2024 13:09

We use a Gandy Orbit Air applicator for granular insecticide. It uses a venturi to suck the insecticide into the airflow then 1" hose to deliver it to the row. They use a metering wheel (electric or hydraulic driven) to drop the insecticide into the piece they call a mixing chamber where it is sucked in by the venturi/airflow.

https://www.gandy.net/1-14-plastic-mixing-chamber

If you could find one(Gandy or Valmar) for sale on any piece of used equipment (they were popular for cover crop seeding as well) near you and go take a look at it you could see how they are made and copy the design pretty easy. In fact the dry fertilizer applicators that deliver to the row with air are a similar design so looking at one of them might help. I don't know anything about air seeders or air flow fertilizer applicators or if they use the venturi principal or a air lock type design.


Also use the Gandy Orbit air Night night in the 1990s when we used insecticide. It worked very well for us.
Top of the page Bottom of the page


Jump to forum :
Search this forum
Printer friendly version
E-mail a link to this thread

(Delete cookies)