Thank you Joe,
No, i'm not sitting in the cold.
I intend to use this pump to pump out an area by my front door,
which floods-up like a deep puddle every time we get heavy rain.
I had a similar water circulating pump for this job before,
i would just turn it on when i needed it.
They are (usually) quiet running, they don't have much of a pressure
output, but they shift quite a lot of water so long as it moves easily.
My path by my front door is a little lower than the immediate area
around, and when it rains heavily it soon gets a few inches deep in
water. I have tried soakaways, but they don't last long. So i was
using one of these circulating pumps as i don't need to lift the
water very high at all to get it to run off elsewhere.
Occasionally the pump i had would clog and stop, that is easy to fix
with this type, they run the rotor via a thin sheet of stainless.
But i foolishly tried to clear out a screw-hole on the pump i had.
I don't know why i bothered to clear out this screw hole in the body
of the pump i had. It had been left dirt filled for years, and had
never been any trouble. But on this day i had to clear the pump, and
i noticed a screw-hole full of dirt. So i poked at it with a nail.
I wiggled the nail, and i blew in the hole. I shoved the nail in and
out, and i wiggled it some more. I blew in the hole again, and i
thought - there, now thats a nice clear screw-hole.
The screw hole wasn't even in the pump bit of the unit, i just got
carried away.
Well, after re-assembly the pump didn't work.
Upon examination i found that someone had damaged the internal coils
by poking at them with something, possibly a nail, right under the
now free and clear screw hole.
That put me in something of a bad mood for a while, then i tried to
repair it. I made a special copper part for my iron, found all the
damaged ends, soldered them back as far as i could see alright.
It wasn't alright. That pump never ran again.
So i was quite pleased to come across this one, still attached to
the 'Ideal' boiler unit that was discarded outside a house where an
extension had prompted a central heating re-fit. I removed it, and
also took the small electrical box that sits on the side of the pump
which was dangling nearby, having come adrift during the upheaval.
I thought it would be no trouble to re-attach the pump connections,
as they are little baby spade connectors, and they had pulled away
with no damage, except to the plastic box which is rather broken up.
When i had a good look, i see that this pump has six wires to
re-connect. So, thats the story so far.
Cheers, John