What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
I don't think the plastic kayak repair will work on this. Maybe a sheet of fiberglass and some resin from the inside.
Hypothetically:
THIS http://www.walmart.com/ip/Rubbermaid...ingMethod=p13n
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a hole saw drill bit
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some screen mesh
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a couple $5.00 or less garden spigots
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less than what it would end up costing to fix and then replace your existing rain catcher.
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A guy I know (who lives in a place that you can have rain barrels. duhhh) bought some Rubbermaid Brute garbage cans and used a couple of these kits to daisy chain the barrels together at the bottom. http://www.amazon.com/EarthMinded-RB.../dp/B005CJFBJE
I have to wait for a picture of his system to post, but in order for it to look like some unobtrusive garbage cans he has on the side of his house, he got a green one for "yard waste", a blue one with a triangle arrow symbol for "recyclables", and a regular grey one for "trash". So that his yard doesn't look bad or anything.