Update: 2 days under tension and 10 sledgehammer whacks did NOT free it, however
upon reassembly the pressure is 10psi+ higher. Does that bode well in anyone's mind?
A word about my mindset: I was the responsible (from concept to completion) executive for some
of the largest international computer networks of the 20th century. I saw presidents of major corporations lose their careers over approving solutions where there was no graceful reversibility of change. Thus,
my AMAZEMENT at a well design that enables this. I owned a really deep, good, very old well in Missouri. I
saw a well at festung-koenigstein that was 450 years with a working pump installed in 1918.
I asked a well guy about dropping a camera down there. He said it wouldn't tell me much and to try a couple gallons of muriatic. What if the pump is stuck in sand? It coughs plenty of it up every time it starts. What if someone put a casement "liner" down there as a last resort and stuck a pump in it? What if someone jammed a second pump down there already (this property was going through bankruptcy when I "rescued" it). Why would anyone but a moron build a wellhouse over a pipe in a corner unless it was some final act of desperation?
The Cotey people say they sell to distributors who sell to tradesmen. None sell to me so I am trending toward Nu Well Tablets...thus my question about their application--again: reversibility of change on a functioning system. I am grown and can do my research if anyone is worried about blame.
I am "imagineering" when this fails that what now produces
30psi could do so indefinitely WITHOUT BACKPRESSURE (full head) to worsen whatever fissure
may or may not be present. I am drawing a design
whereby I pump into a cistern with a float cut-off controlled by my pressure switch, then use an on demand smaller pump to pressure my tank. Can anyone suggest a good pump for this with it's own controller?
If/when the well dies I might have something that could be used for rain catchment that I could tie into my house main with a check-valve while a new well is dug.