dirtandlove
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Please see pics.
The pump worked a lot longer that I expected.
When we moved here last July the bottom was already largely destroyed by the rust.
It finally stopped working. You hear the electricity engaging but the rotor does not move at all.
It is 3/4 HP Sta Rite SND-L Projet. I thought I could just replace the motor but the 2 bottom bolts that connect the motor and the pump are very rusty. One broke trying to unscrewing it. The other is frozen and the sockets of my wrench do not fit on it anymore. I will try tomorrow with a torch and a plumber wrench.
Maybe it is better to replace everything.
I saw this on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C7ZHZGV1 but I am concerned with durability.
When I went to an irrigation store today they suggested a $600 Goulds 1 1/2 HP GT15 that it is an irrigation pump that it is more than 3 times the price of the Amazon one. At that time it is also when I found out that there are differences between "irrigation and house [jet] pumps" ...
Currently that pump only feeds a spigot. But we have plans to also use the pump for irrigation of our relatively small garden.
I do not know much about where the water is coming from. I think the pump is connected to a shallow well. We already have 2 other wells (one for house water and one for the sprinklers).
I am not sure if an irrigation pump would work with the well. Furthermore I am not sure how an irrigation pump would be able to turn on automatically with the spigot since they do not have pressure switches.
What do you suggest?
The pump worked a lot longer that I expected.
When we moved here last July the bottom was already largely destroyed by the rust.
It finally stopped working. You hear the electricity engaging but the rotor does not move at all.
It is 3/4 HP Sta Rite SND-L Projet. I thought I could just replace the motor but the 2 bottom bolts that connect the motor and the pump are very rusty. One broke trying to unscrewing it. The other is frozen and the sockets of my wrench do not fit on it anymore. I will try tomorrow with a torch and a plumber wrench.
Maybe it is better to replace everything.
I saw this on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C7ZHZGV1 but I am concerned with durability.
When I went to an irrigation store today they suggested a $600 Goulds 1 1/2 HP GT15 that it is an irrigation pump that it is more than 3 times the price of the Amazon one. At that time it is also when I found out that there are differences between "irrigation and house [jet] pumps" ...
Currently that pump only feeds a spigot. But we have plans to also use the pump for irrigation of our relatively small garden.
I do not know much about where the water is coming from. I think the pump is connected to a shallow well. We already have 2 other wells (one for house water and one for the sprinklers).
I am not sure if an irrigation pump would work with the well. Furthermore I am not sure how an irrigation pump would be able to turn on automatically with the spigot since they do not have pressure switches.
What do you suggest?