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[Anonymous Poster]

Adding bleach to a well will not rust your pipes. Now chlorine is corrosive, no doubt about that, but there is not enough contact time for the bleach to be in your well to do any damage. Within three days it would be pumped out with your regular household usage. Some characteristic of your water would be responsible for the pipe breaking. You pouring a cup of bleach down the casing twice a year will not rust your pipes.

Also, if you were to add chlorine pellets to the well, when the pellets begin dissolving isn't that the same thing as bleach being poured down there?

I dissenfect wells with 12.5% sodium hypochlorite, (household bleach is 5.25% ) never had problems.

DC

 

[Schultz]

It won't rust your pipes that are in the water but it can rust the pipe and casing that is above the water line, because your pouring a somwhat concentrated solution on these exposed surfaces and it has plenty of oxygen. Which is why they recomended pellets, these drop directly into the water and become diluted. Bleach is fairly corrosive with ferrous metals, it will even rust Stainless Steel.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Good point. I'll take that.
Even so, I must be very lucky on the wells I disinfect.

I see you have an Ingersol. It does many of the things I am looking for. How would you rate it?

DC

 

[Schultz]

I would rate it pretty good overall. I would rate excellet as far as used price goes. I don't think you could find a better tractor in the used $2k range. The Onan engine is great, never a problem. As far as new, they are not worth the money. I think Power Trac, John Deere 400's, and maybe a few others like Simplicity, Kubota have them beat, although I only have experiance with the JD 430. I'm about to sell mine, if your interested drop me an email.