Originally Posted By dogdays
A very short section of 3/8" diameter in a 1/2" diameter line does very little to impede flow. It's all about head loss.

Fortunately for us who live in this universe, fluid will speed up through the narrow sections and slow down through the fatter sections. It's NOT like toothpaste, where once it goes through a smaller hole it remains that diameter.

Fluid dynamics is not intuitive.

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So putting a nozzle on the end of my water garden hose will allow me to fill my car wash bucket just as fast as an open hose? We are talking non compressible fluids, correct?

Last edited by jcc; 07/05/16 10:26 PM.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.