Hi All,
I think you all have the only pump forum on the Internet!
My family has a smallish lake house that had a 1/2 HP Wayne deep well jet pump, 110v, and a tank (I don't remember the size) in a well pit about 5' below ground. The pump died a short few years back and we took the opportunity to replace the tank (it was probably from like 1960', from Sears) with a new tank and we went up to a 3/4 Wayne pump, 110v. That pump lasted like that year, perhaps into Thanksgiving of the next year, when it died and my uncle replaced it with another new 3/4 HP Wayne 110v - that was in 2013.
The 2nd 3/4 HP Wayne has now died. It pumped for about 2 minutes fine, the power was killed, hose detached, line to house opened up, power back on, pump made weird noise for about 10 seconds and then they shut it off/it died.
We're wondering if what we should do next? My dad remembers back in the mid to late 70's they took the line up, maybe 90' of it, and he remembers leather - so from my small amount of knowledge (from here and a manual from a convertible pump on Gould's site) sounds like we have a packer deep well?
That's about all I can say, any advice would be appreciated! What would you guys do? Is Wayne a good pump? Etc. Thanks in advance!
Chuck
I think you all have the only pump forum on the Internet!
My family has a smallish lake house that had a 1/2 HP Wayne deep well jet pump, 110v, and a tank (I don't remember the size) in a well pit about 5' below ground. The pump died a short few years back and we took the opportunity to replace the tank (it was probably from like 1960', from Sears) with a new tank and we went up to a 3/4 Wayne pump, 110v. That pump lasted like that year, perhaps into Thanksgiving of the next year, when it died and my uncle replaced it with another new 3/4 HP Wayne 110v - that was in 2013.
The 2nd 3/4 HP Wayne has now died. It pumped for about 2 minutes fine, the power was killed, hose detached, line to house opened up, power back on, pump made weird noise for about 10 seconds and then they shut it off/it died.
We're wondering if what we should do next? My dad remembers back in the mid to late 70's they took the line up, maybe 90' of it, and he remembers leather - so from my small amount of knowledge (from here and a manual from a convertible pump on Gould's site) sounds like we have a packer deep well?
That's about all I can say, any advice would be appreciated! What would you guys do? Is Wayne a good pump? Etc. Thanks in advance!
Chuck
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