Recent content by CyberScooby

Never mind, I got the help I needed on another forum.

So I guess no one knows what that Y pipe is. I could try to get a better picture but this site only allows for very tiny ones. Perhaps I could do a closeup of any parts that people want to see better. Also do you have any tips on getting into the drain? It is 2 feet down (4" pipe) and then a...

First a little background - We live in a house that is approximately 130 years old. The basement contains 3 "drains" and an unused cistern that is no longer hooked up to anything. One of the drains was doing nothing when we took on a bit of water a few years ago in the one corner of our...

Thank you so much Reach4! I had read (before posting here) about putting some citric acid in the brine tank to clean things out. Read up on bleach beforehand and found out that citric acid + bleach is a deadly combo (chlorine gas which destroys lungs) so instead of using bleach I just put more...

Ok I have had partial success. After a bunch of fiddling around with things I can now manually regenerate the softener but the aircheck ball gets stuck at the end of the brine draw every time. Very strange how this didn't start happening until I cleaned out the system and did a partial manual...

Thank you so much for your quick response Reach4! I know the bleach should all get purged out of the system, but I was still hesitant to try that trick. So instead I did tried a hammer as you suggested. It made the ball dance around pretty good (seemed to be stuck down on the one side) but...

I have an Autotrol 460mp based water softener. Recently I noticed that it had stopped drawing water from the brine tank as it was overflowing. After a ton of online research I have managed to resolve this but now the aircheck ball is "stuck" at the bottom of the plastic cylinder. If needed...