Shortly before Christmas my WC system sprang a leak and ran itself dry while I was at work. I've been busy with other stuff over the last few weeks; so aside from swapping my HDs to a spare box and trying to dry out my 5870 to revive it (failed), the only thing I did until today was to order a replacement pump.
With the new pump here I went to ID exactly what failed (had only localized it to a single barb) and start putting my new loop together. Once I pulled the kink coils away from the tube the crack in it was obvious:
It was about the same all over; visible (non penetrating) cracks along the length of the tube with the inner two thirds degraded and crumbly. MY camera's autofocus refused to cooperate and show it, but when pinched slightly cracks opened throughout the rotten plastic.
Inside my block was a real mess. There was a gloppy mass of tygon debris piled up around the intake port. I was able to pull the big globs out with a toothpick but some of the yuck is still clogging up the channels. There was some smaller fragments scattered in the pump when I opened it up; but since it ran dry I bought a new one and am not really concerned about those.
With the new pump here I went to ID exactly what failed (had only localized it to a single barb) and start putting my new loop together. Once I pulled the kink coils away from the tube the crack in it was obvious:
It was about the same all over; visible (non penetrating) cracks along the length of the tube with the inner two thirds degraded and crumbly. MY camera's autofocus refused to cooperate and show it, but when pinched slightly cracks opened throughout the rotten plastic.
Inside my block was a real mess. There was a gloppy mass of tygon debris piled up around the intake port. I was able to pull the big globs out with a toothpick but some of the yuck is still clogging up the channels. There was some smaller fragments scattered in the pump when I opened it up; but since it ran dry I bought a new one and am not really concerned about those.
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