Curiosity and the water pump.

My sister in-law purchased a small water pump for her nursery. The model is a Pentax, (Italian make I believe) in which she said she paid 1200.00 for it. About 2 weeks ago she told me it stopped working.  In my inquisitiveness, I disassembled the pump in its not specifically to fix the problem but to see how the pump worked.

The check list went as follow.

1. Check for power
2. A visual check to see what error reading the smart head of the pump gave.
3.  Opened the smart head to see if any wires were burnt.

I figured that the motor was seized due to the fact that the fan was not spinning freely. The fan is located at the back of the pump which is used to cool the unit. The failure of the unit could have been attributed to corrosion however I had to disassemble the water pump ( picture bellow) for further investigation.

Pump guts, a bloody murder

It was truly amazing to see the inner mechanics of how these water pumps work and the time i took examining the parts observing its makeup truly motivates me to do additional research on the mechanics of these devices. Eventually I was able to make the motor on the pump turn freely. In cases like these WD40 is your friend.  The application of WD 40 to the inner motor of the pump eventually caused it to move freely eventually. Having done this the pump was reassembled and put it back into service.

I thought to myself that I could have made an easy $250 to repair that pump which took me less than two hours of simple troubleshooting. Imagine if I had the time to perfect and shape skills into a craft?  The feeling of solving problems and challenging tasks is indeed addictive.

Good as new.

Future posts will give light to another water pump that I fixed.