Hello All,
Bought a property, and, after scrounging around in brush found an abandon well in a 550 gallon septic tank case.
Wanting to get a dedicated well for our truck patch thought would try and resurrect this setup. The motor had been submerged in water and hasn't been used for 30 years.
Is an AY Mcdonald pump,,with the proprietary case well adapter that 90's over to the actual pump sits atop a 2" well casing . This is the two pipe setup.
This adapter head has threaded 1 1/4" NPT for both the ejector and the suction tubes that go down into casing FYI.
Have a working Wayne shallow well pump in the archives, so being the tightwad wanted to try and utilize this pump if possible
My thought was to plug the ejector part, 1 1/4" pipe plug ,,and simply pipe the Shallow well pump to the suction side of this setup it seems once primed it should work. But alas, after much fanagling the pump will only pump out whats in the housing then gives up. When I shut the pump off,,I can here the casing sounds like slight compressed air.
Water is 11' with foot valve is 18' as best i can measure with nut and string.
Will attach a pathetic drawing of this setup may help explain a little bit.
Bought a property, and, after scrounging around in brush found an abandon well in a 550 gallon septic tank case.
Wanting to get a dedicated well for our truck patch thought would try and resurrect this setup. The motor had been submerged in water and hasn't been used for 30 years.
Is an AY Mcdonald pump,,with the proprietary case well adapter that 90's over to the actual pump sits atop a 2" well casing . This is the two pipe setup.
This adapter head has threaded 1 1/4" NPT for both the ejector and the suction tubes that go down into casing FYI.
Have a working Wayne shallow well pump in the archives, so being the tightwad wanted to try and utilize this pump if possible
My thought was to plug the ejector part, 1 1/4" pipe plug ,,and simply pipe the Shallow well pump to the suction side of this setup it seems once primed it should work. But alas, after much fanagling the pump will only pump out whats in the housing then gives up. When I shut the pump off,,I can here the casing sounds like slight compressed air.
Water is 11' with foot valve is 18' as best i can measure with nut and string.
Will attach a pathetic drawing of this setup may help explain a little bit.