Can anyone tell me how to connect an old water hand pump to outside tap?

It is an old fashioned water pump that we want to make a feature in the garden and was wondering if we could connect it to outside tap?Can anyone tell me how to connect an old water hand pump to outside tap?The plunger and valve leathers in your old pump wouldn't withstand tap pressures, and you would have water flowing through the pump anytime the tap was on. You could feed a tank from the tap, and pump from the tank with the hand pump.Can anyone tell me how to connect an old water hand pump to outside tap?The only way I can think to make an old hand-pump functional again would be to submerge the bottom of the pump in a reservoir of water like it would have been originally set up..... and have your outside spigot available to fill that reservoir.



Hand pumps work on suction and mechanical advantage (leverage).... if you put pressurized water into hand-pump (like would come from the tap) it is going to make suction difficult and the pump handle itself would be irrelevant. No need (and no ability) to pull the water up from below with the lever.... if the water is already under pressure and pushing it's way toward the path of least resistance.