Update on pumping out my well.

Mike(NEOhio)

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Location
Newbury, Ohio
Tried again today. I cut the pipe to 35 feet, just below my well pump. Still nothing. I took the pump apart and on closer inspection I found a lot of wear from sucking gravel. The impeller had some damage and the center area of the housing was worn badly creating too much clearance, so, no lift. As far as I can tell the parts are NLA.
 
mike, i have kind of a hair brained idea, it may or may not work. in my younger days a group of us were hard core salvage divers. i built a dredge to remove silt and sediment off the lake bottom to search for goodies. i used about 30 feet of 3 inch pvc pipe and hooked that to 3 inch flexible plastic pipe. about 3 feet up from the business end on the bottom was an air fitting to inject compressed air into the pipe causing a suction lift. the other end of the flex pipe got tied to an inner tube on the surface. we dredged in 70 ft of water no problem. my thought, run your 1-1/4 pvc down the well. attach some 3/16 steel brake line , put a j bend and drill and install about 3 feet from the bottom of the pipe. the brake line comes in 25 ft rolls from any auto parts store. 3 rolls will get you to the 70 ft depth, use compression fittings to join the brake line and tape it to the pvc every 3 to 5 ft. slide it into the well till it hits sediment and put compressed air to the brake line. the air will force slugs of water up the pvc. use a pressure regulator or valve to control the air flow. it should suck the sediment out and blow it out the end of the pvc. put some flex drain hose like sump pump hose on the end to direct the slurry that comes up. may be worth a shot. google underwater dredging to find some pics. start the dredge slowly and gradually increase the air pressure, other wise it may just blow the air out the bottom until you get the lift started.
 
Hello Mike,


Sounds like you need to borrow or rent an air compressor. New well is blown down with air, and that is how it is first cleared and rated. My well produced enough water to fill 1/2 the 4" casing with a 1" air hose down the casing,

Guido.
 
Rent a trash pump for a day if the level of water is at 15 feet or so it will pump well (intended pun) Jim
 
(quoted from post at 12:45:00 07/15/17) Hello Mike,


Sounds like you need to borrow or rent an air compressor. [b:6934bc796d]New well is blown down with air, and that is how it is first cleared and rated.[/b:6934bc796d] My well produced enough water to fill 1/2 the 4" casing with a 1" air hose down the casing,

Guido.

While they're drilling, they use 'drilling mud' to collect the chips and force the whole mess to the surface with compressed air.

Big trailer mounted compressor, PVC pipe down into the mud in your well, turn on the air to the pipe and let it rip. I'll flush it out....
 
For blowing out a well, no drilling mud is necessary. Our well is about 80' total and have had it blown out. The well driller told me horror stories about what had come out of other people's wells in the past - usually lots and lots of very black stuff, and usually stinking to high heaven! He said ours was surprisingly clear, but he still pumped the air down for something like 1/2 hour or more. He had a large, tow-behind compressor with 185 CFM capacity.
 
Seems the parts to repair my pump are NLA. Next step will be a rental. Still like to fix the pump if anybody knows where parts are available. TSC pumps are similar, I'm sure somebody is making them.
 

My neighbor had his well serviced; they found about 300 feet of dead frogs in the 450 foot well. Luckily they found this before he let me tie into his system as I was building my house.

I still don't know why everybody on the hill didn't die...
 
OK, parts under Homelite numbers are all NLA but these things look like the Pacer pumps at TSC so I knew somebody was making them. Got on Pacers website and found two equivalent models and they have rebuild kits, but I wasn't sure which one to order. I called Pacer's customer service, told the guy what I had and he fixed me right up. Around $90 and I'll get it Friday. BTW, it's rated for up to 25 feet max lift so I should be OK at 15.
 

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