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Just got a new softener. All I can find is SS corrugated flex pipe with FIP fittings at both ends. My Fleck 5800 valve has 1" male NPT so I either need 1" FNPT to MIP adapters (to fit available SS corrugated flex pipes with FIP at both ends) or a flex pipe with Female NPT which I cannot find...

If anyone wants DIY leak detectors, get cheap smoke alarms, open them up and run wires from both sides of the "test" switch to probes on the floor. This works really well and they still serve as smoke detectors also.

Having mentioned a ground fault circuit interrupter earlier gives me an idea. 240V GFCIs are available, I think, so I might wire the pump though a GFCI and have the leak detector floor probes wired thusly: One probe to ground and the other probe to the 240V hot side of the GFCI powering the...

Because you are a helpful, forgiving person, along with other reasons. I appreciate your suggestions.

That's a really good suggestion, except I hate any device that needs an app that also relies on a server outside of my LAN. My daughter had Hive smart light bulbs, thermostats, motion detectors that will be "Dumb" or completely non-functional as Hive is discontinuing support for their devices...

I should explain further what I mean. There are electrically, motor powered main water shutoff systems that rotate the lever on a ball valve after detecting a leak. For now, ignore how the leak is detected or how big it is. Because I have a well pump I want something that cuts the power to the...

I had one and returned it. Useless. No moving parts, just an in-line restriction. It was not the expensive one with a screw on top and spring inside or whatever. I'll have to search the site to see if a thread already exists for my project before duplicating one.

I'm about to order a softener with Purolite SST-60 resin in an upflow with turbulator and Fleck 5800SXT. As for salt saving, Pentair claims that upflow uses less salt and Purolite says their SST-60 uses less salt, but both don't say by how much. I can't see any negatives except possibly higher...

Interestingly, a magnet for non-ferrous metals is possible, but might be too large to fit, I would think. I saw instructions on how to make one decades ago in Popular Mechanics or Popular Electronics magazine. https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/magnet-for-non-ferrous-metals.21190/...

I will stay on, as you hope, and will continue to contribute to the site. As for giving Ontarians a bad name, c'mon, there are bad apples in every province and state, not that I am one of them of course. I have a project this summer involving installing a hand-operated Simple Pump along side my...

Sorry, but I cannot change my name. I have made some positive comments on this site, in my opinion, but when I see someone making a claim that sounds possibly doubtful, I ask for proof. Also, is promoting sales of one's own products not against the terms of this site? At least one poster seems...

Still awaiting the pages and pages of detail..... (crickets in background...)

Yes, please send me those pages and pages. I like to read and I have the time. Thank you for offering the literature, I eagerly await it. You're the best! I apologize for appearing to insult you. I will try to be more tactful in my criticisms.

If you're referring to one's political affiliation and budgetary views, I do like it. As for rotating an object, I understand why that expression came to be. If you ignore the bottom half of a bolt, pipe, etc, from your perspective, the top half does indeed "turn to the right or left".

I'm sure there are, but the example you referred to with six pumps in it was not a residential well. A commercial operator might not care whether there is one pump or twelve in a deep well. I'm suggesting that when you toss out extreme case examples that you might want to include some vital...

That still makes no sense. If you are looking at a ball valve on a wall with the lever pointing down, to close it you would turn to the left. If the lever was pointing up, you would turn it to the right. CW and CCW removes all ambiguity. Now take your stuck pipe scenario.: If the person trying...

You mean turn clockwise. Looking down on something that needs turning, there is no left or right. This "turn left or right" is such a non-technical, ambiguous way to describe turning, since the perimeter of the item to be turned is going in all directions, left, right, up, down and every angle...

Can you sue the well-guy's company to have a new well drilled? It could cost them tens of thousands of $$$ but surely they have insurance to cover these oopsies. If that company drills wells, and not just does servicing, it won't cost them as much as what they would charge you. They might even...

Silly me. The posts here are mainly about residential wells, then you drop a detail-lacking post about 6 pumps in a well without mentioning a couple of "minor" details like that it was an industrial well almost a quarter-mile deep in salt water. Of course I doubted it. Who knows if that other...

That seems very incredible. How could people make the same mistake in installing a pump to the point where six have to be in the well because the previous five could not be pulled out? All five would have to have had their down pipes dislodged from the pumps, along with the wiring and any safety...