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Good point, and one that bit me... The bypass line generates quite a bit of turbulence. If you place it over the tank outlet, and it will cause air to be drawn at low water levels (<100 gallons). FWIW, all my feed lines enter from the top of the tank and the outlets (pump feed, dump line) leave the bottom. One last advice: Make your dump valve large (1.5" or better) so it does not take all day to dump.

I don't know of ANYTHING northern sells that has a flow type unloader. The blast when you pop the trigger is the big clue that you have a trapped pressure unloader. I know the unit you have well. 13hp belt drive, right? If so, I have one myself. Get a T, a few quick couplers, and enjoy more power. Do remember that you will need to retip everything to run at 8gpm. Otherwise, you are just wasting gasoline and giving your unloaders a workout. Oh, and don't one hand it anymore until you are used to the new feel....

I just read that entire thread (and associated articles). And while I have not located a product for sale behind the rhetoric, I would bet there is one somewhere because the propaganda is thick as molasses. Chlorine is toxic because dioxin is toxic, and chlorine is a major component of dioxin?!? Assuming that basic chemistry worked that way, we need to ban salt immediately. After all, chlorine is also a major component in salt (NaCL)... Bleach not only changes the color of organic materials, it destroys them via oxidation and reduction. What does peroxide do? Yep, oxidation and reduction. That bleach can eat 1/16" off a dried, cured deck board, but fail to consume a 1/1000" layer of living mold is preposterous.

Correct. No need for a fancy hose with check valves and all that for trapped pressure unloaders (they are check valves by design). I use a $1.29 3/8" galvanized "T" from Home Depot to mate a 4.0 and a 5.5. Kicks like a mule with a #10 tip. IMHO, there are about a dozen good reasons to mate two pumps for increased volume.

You're thinking in terms of AC. Think DC. The pressures will be the average of the two, and the flow the sum of the two. Provided the hose is sized appropriately for 8gpm, the flow will be 8gpm.

I have torsion on my travel trailer and I do not like it. When the springs get older, you cannot add a leaf. If you need to lift it 1", no go. Air bags for more support? No. Load handlers/Helper springs: No. Flip the axles: No.

As a 15yr IT veteran, this is truly the best advice most people ever get. Sadly, it is also the advice most often ignored. Drive failure/data loss is not a matter of IF, it is a matter of WHEN. I would project that for most people, the risk of catastrophic data loss approaches 100% every 3-5 years. Spend $99 on an external HDD, use it at least once a month, and keep it at your office or your sisters house. At the very least, keep it in a really good fire safe. Philip

JJ, If you are using well water for your pump, all you need is a sediment filter. 5 micron would be gross overkill, but that would eliminate all non-negligible sediment. I suspect that a simple wire screen would work fine even for pond water. As for microbes, your pump could not care less if the water is infected with microbes... Here in the S.E. USA, most wells are drinkable w/o any after-processing expect for sediment. I suspect that to be true of any deep well in the world. If you do need to chlorinate your water, don't panic about the cost. One gallon of 12% will treat 9-17k gallons of water. FWIW, 1 gal of 12% will raise my 27k gallon pool from 1.5 to 3.0 ppm.

Is that a challenge? :)

This is a big admission of guilt. Professional extraction is expensive...

I agree with this thought. I spent 6 hrs and a bunch of degreaser on a 1.5 hr house that was "just mildewed". Turned out to be soot from a trash/fire pit that once existed in the backyard.

Do a search on my thread for "turned a house orange". High iron content water can flash rust in the presence of chlorine. It is uncommon, but if your well has that problem it will be a perpetual issue.

Carlos, Sadly, I am so completely not surprised. It's one of the reasons I got out of the business. We were making big $$ for offering expert advice. Alot of meagerly qualified people saw the $$$ we got (but not the training and experience behind it), and rushed to get 1yr certificates so they could be a technician, engineer, etc. Salaries plummeted as people got tired of paying $100-200/hr and getting horrible service from people who were often doing little more than guessing. Today most professional "geeks" are little more than the guy who knows more than most of his customers. FAR from professionals.... I bailed when I saw my annual salary plummet to about 1/3 of what it was in just 4 years. I could have fought like heck to maintain the higher level, but it would have meant about 90%+ travel and other major concessions as the remaining skilled engineers fought for very few top level spots.....

I have been dealing with an online customer that is making me lose my cool. It started 2 weeks ago. She got her "value pack" order minus one item. Of course, a polite email was out of the question, she had to tell us that she expected it rectified ASAP. I apologized and sent a replacement. In what I would later realize was a mistake, I sent it Priority Mail in an attempt to shave a few days and a few bucks. At least for now, it has vanished... FF 1 week, she emails to let me know that she has not received the replacement and will issue a chargeback unless it arrives at her location by Wednesday. This is Sunday PM. I apologize, commit to see what happened, and commit to ship a another replacement 2 day air. I remind her that issuing a chargeback for merchandise already received is illegal. Today: I get a response telling me that unless she gets her light by Wednesday, I have left her no choice except to issue a chargeback. Furthermore she would have already sent back the merchandise if we had issued a return label (which she never asked for). Arggg... Why are some people such unreasonable jerks who insist on trying to force their way through like like a bull in a china shop?!? I told her that she could either return the merchandise or keep it and pay for it. I also told her that if she proceeded with the chargeback I would report it as CC fraud... If she were in my store, I would physically take my goods, shove her refund in her pocket, and show her the door. But she's not...

IMHO, no these products are not a threat. There are people who must try and do things themselves no matter how marginal it works out. These personality types generally make very poor customers as they expect the job done at the prices they pay for materials only...

Do I want them as a customer? Of course. Do I have a choice? Given the frequency of such behavior it seems not. That's part of why I'm frustrated and ranting here. It seems that shoot first, ask questions later is becoming the new norm for netiquette and I don't like it. FWIW, I do realize the value of criticism and did thank the customer for letting me know.

Back to this thread again. Here's an excerpt from the first email I got from a repeat customer when he encontered a technical problem with our site. "When I went to checkout and entered OCTSALE as the code it said invalid code. This is extremely annoying [...] Please advise if you still wish to have me as an ongoing customer." This is precisely the crap I was referring to. Any problem (real or perceived) and the emails come with the following theme: If you don't <insert desired action> immediately.... I'll report you to the BBB. I'll issue a chargeback. I'll quit buying from you. I'll badmouth you on some bulletin board. What the h**l is with these people. Surely they would never behave this way in person...

That's a guy. Two characters from the aborted TV show Reunion....

I'm curious why you would never connect two together. Is there a potential problem that I am not forseeing? As for why I do it the way I do: It's not about cost (2x small is more expensive), it's about conveinence. The shorter lances store easier, and having a 3,6,9 combo gives me the option of 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, & 18ft with only 3 lances.

D**n Jeff, I never went that far... :)

1. The center part of a ear of corn. Usually left over after eating the corn. 2. I guess. I much prefer a deckster, but any HVLP shoudl be fine. 3. CitraClean - Rowlett. Citrus Cleaner - Sunbrite. BTW, this is what the previous poster meant about experimenting. Just by a good housewash like citrus cleaner and be done. Safe, effective, and relatively cheap. One last comment: I think you need to spend some time playing with ratios and figure out how to calculate what is hitting the wall. From your first post, it seems that you don't get that yet, and it is a critical skill for a newbie. Once you've gotten some miles logged, you will be able to eyeball things and tweak you mix accordingly. But for now, learn how to calculate the ratios for your equipment.

Your problem is simple. 12% @1:5 mix is 2.5%. Now, push that through you injector at 1:10 and your are using 0.25% bleach. You need to be using 0.75-1.5%. That means 3:5 pre-mix or (as I prefer) no dilution for a 1.25% TTW mix.

My chemist has explained to me that bleach is highly unstable above 12.5%. They make it at 15%, and expect it to be sold/used 12.5%.

Ditto, but I prefer dickies pants. If you order from walts, kep in mind that everything has been washed in scalding water a million times, so order a size bigger than you usually wear in the pants...

I'm a xjetter, so I rarely use extensions. But there are instances (odd gable, windy day) that I need a little more length. In those cases, I find that a a 6 and a 3 get 95% of the stuff. Plus a couple of 6's travel much better than an 18'er .