I just read someone's response to a question regarding the age-old question of how a potter keeps the sink gunk from going into the sewer/septic, and the suggestion was to look into a product called a "Gleco Trap." The poster gave a link that showed it.
Anyway, it looks great, IF it works and really keeps the fine particulate material out of the plumbing system. Does anyone have any experience using these things?
Thanks. (And thanks very much to the poster who gave the Gleco link.)
I used something similar, but more "industrial", in a herbarium for many years. We had to get all the mud out of plant roots before pressing them for scientific study. The "dirty plant room" had a deep sink just for that purpose. The drain from the sink went straight down and ended a couple of feet above what looked like a stainless steel mop bucket on wheels, maybe
18x24X12"deep.
The bucket had a vertical divider that divided it into two compartments, about 18x16 and about 18x8". The lower portion of the vertical divider was solid up to a height of about 8"; above that was stainless steel mesh. There was a pipe with a valve and a 90o bend exiting about 8" above the bottom of the smaller divided portion. That valved exit outlet was positioned above a cup drain; in use the valve was open.
Top view Side view ______________ ________________ | | | | | | | |=== | | |===\x |__________|___| |_________|_____| Dirty water washed into the large portion of the bucket and the sediment settled out there. Water moved from the larger portion to the smaller through the screen, and from there through the outlet and into the drain. Every few months we'd close the valve, bail some of the water out of the larger compartment and haul it outside to dump the sediment. Worked quite well, especially considering all the stuff we put in that sink.
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