AnswerID: 87136 Submitted: Friday, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:12
porl
replied:
I used the those
shower pumps during home extensions when the hot water was cut off and then for my line marker for my football field when the $1,500 job gave out. So having gone through about 5 of those turbo pumps i thought, this is not new technology, this is old technology done cheaply which is why those pumps give up.
So who uses 12v pumps ? Carvanners. So off I went to some warehouse for caravan folk and there in the kitchen pump bits was a solid heavy centrigual pump that cost me $70 and about the same size. Same connections as the Turbo pump, but whereas the turbo type pumps never last me more than a month this $70 unit has been going for two years now. I also find the seals are far more tolerant of hot water than the turbo pump types, and extremely tolerant of chalk, water and twigs.
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FollowupID: 345911 Submitted:
Friday, Dec 03, 2004 at 17:23
porl posted:
ah, post below, mine is a whale brand pump and it did cost me $70 and the beauty is that it is submersible like the Turbo cheap copy and in the submersability is the convenience compared to a bilge pump. But i will feel like a dill if someone tells me bilge pumps are submersible.
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FollowupID: 346253 Submitted:
Monday, Dec 06, 2004 at 13:25
porl posted:
Hey Michael
The flow rate seemed similar to the Turbo set up when I was using the Turbo's hoses, when I changed to a 0.5cm wider in diameter hose it just shoots it out at a rate, well for line marking, maybe a little too quick. So it does have the capacity give a greater flow rate based on what you got on it. It is soooooo much more reliable that the Turbo ones, which for me just brokedown all the time.
One mistake i did make with my first turbo ones was dumping boiling water in the bucket with the pump already in it and then put in
cold water. I believe i buggered up a few seals that way so have never done that with the Whale.
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