Recent content by Lu-Max

Been gone working, will take a look at these suggestions a bit later. Thanks for the ideas and help!

I'm trying to find a hose anti-kink "spring" but after much searching have only found short ones. I need one that is ~12" long, up to 18" would be acceptable, but I've had no luck. Also, the hose o.d. is 1", most of the ones I have found are for 5/8" o.d. hose. There are lots of short ones on...

That is pretty cool, but might be an expensive, one-time use (for me) tool.

One more thing, the spring collection was restored yesterday by an experienced local pro. The flow from the spring into the concrete tank at the top of the hill is now significantly improved. Impressive flow for October.

Will attempt to plug the hole from the inside using a ball + rod + rope backup. I measured the access hatch, our friend wouldn't fit through it even though he is slender. Will go with a 2" ball valve. I didn't do this install. AFAIK once the tank was placed the connections were made by the...

It's 2HP I believe, 1" inlet/outlet

There's no port on the top of the tank for a pipe connection, just a preinstalled vented cap and an access hatch. Thanks

Our friend is an experienced cave diver, I think going into a tank would be a walk in the park for him. The shutoff valve is too small, we want a 1-1/2" one. Yes, we're going to try it with the pump near the tank first. But the pump output would still be through 70'+ of 3/4" PEX, quite...

Yes, that's the first thing I'm going to try.

At my best friend's little ranch is this 5,000-gallon tank, it's ~12-14' tall. It is completely full of water, and its purpose is to back up the natural spring that supplies all of the water at the property. The long drought 2-4 years ago caused the spring to slow down appreciably, so the tank...

Blasted them today and dropped off for satin black p.c.

An old friend of mine is an expert, very experienced powder coater and we barter our services back and forth, we rarely charge each other anything. He only asks that everything I bring in is bare metal so he and his guys don't have to waste any time doing prep. I greatly prefer powder coat to...

Drives, I just saw this. I'm very sorry for your loss. I'm glad to read that your family and your friends on GJ are here for you.

I have 2, 12-inch steel trailer wheels. They have very cheap white powder coating on them (China) that has become discolored, a sort of yellow-beige color. I plan to remove the powder coat and have them redone in satin black. The easiest method for removing the coating appears to be "vapor...

I just placed an order 10 minutes ago. D'Oh!