DUMBDOG
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2002
- Messages
- 1,068
- Location
- Central ND, Central FL
- Tractor
- NH 1630 W-7308 FEL/ Kubota L4630GSTC W-LA853 FEL WQ/A-CC 2544
This spring I purchased a 100 gallon steel transfer tank and pump. It ran dry on Saturday, filled it up on Sunday and tried to hand pump some diesel into the tractor as it was on empty. After about fifty or so pumps, nothing comes out. Check the literature that came with the pump and it was no help.
Pulled out the pump and no pipe was attached. It was obvious that the pipe was laying on the bottom of the tank. So I go and get one of those cheapy magnets that extends out of the toolbox and was lucky after about a half hour to get the pipe up to the top two or three times, but the pipe always came up in the middle of the pipe with no way to grab it. Figured that I would need a helper and went and took a wire hanger, cut it to grab the pipe but about this time the extension piece of the magnet next to the handle comes apart, fix this so that it will not come apart again, then the next piece comes apart and the magnet is now at the bottom of the tank and unobtainable.
Run to town, find another magnet, but it does not work as it is not as powerful as the one replaced or as stated on the package. Go to the shop and find one of those gadgets that my brother brought down that is supposed to extend your reach to pick up things, that has two suction cups on it, but the suction cups keep slipping off of the pipe. Take off one of the suction cups off and somehow fasten the magnet to one side.
With the modified reach extender and a coat hanger finally was able to get the suction pipe out of the tank and through the 2 inch hole on top. Total time expended in this process is four and one half hours.
When I reattached the suction pipe to the pump a pipe wrench was used. Will this hold now or should I use Loctite?
Pulled out the pump and no pipe was attached. It was obvious that the pipe was laying on the bottom of the tank. So I go and get one of those cheapy magnets that extends out of the toolbox and was lucky after about a half hour to get the pipe up to the top two or three times, but the pipe always came up in the middle of the pipe with no way to grab it. Figured that I would need a helper and went and took a wire hanger, cut it to grab the pipe but about this time the extension piece of the magnet next to the handle comes apart, fix this so that it will not come apart again, then the next piece comes apart and the magnet is now at the bottom of the tank and unobtainable.
Run to town, find another magnet, but it does not work as it is not as powerful as the one replaced or as stated on the package. Go to the shop and find one of those gadgets that my brother brought down that is supposed to extend your reach to pick up things, that has two suction cups on it, but the suction cups keep slipping off of the pipe. Take off one of the suction cups off and somehow fasten the magnet to one side.
With the modified reach extender and a coat hanger finally was able to get the suction pipe out of the tank and through the 2 inch hole on top. Total time expended in this process is four and one half hours.
When I reattached the suction pipe to the pump a pipe wrench was used. Will this hold now or should I use Loctite?