This section is from the book "Experimental Glass Blowing For Boys", by Carleton J. Lynde. Also available from Amazon: Experimental Glass Blowing for Boys.
Attach a full length of No. 4 tube to each arm of the siphon, as in Fig. 47, and repeat the experiments described above.
Note: When you insert a glass tube into a rubber coupling or rubber stopper, wet the end of the glass tube and the inside of the coupling or stopper, grasp the tube near the end to be inserted, and insert with a twisting motion.
The Water Stops When Levels Are The Same
Fig. 47. Siphoning With Long Tubes
 
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