ibby458
05-18-2009, 05:50 AM
A deal jumped up in front of me recently and I bought an RO sight unseen. I've got it home now, and hope it's a good one.
THe label & manual says it's a Small Brothers "Sap Brother", made under license from Osmonics. It's name plate says 240 GPH, but the previous (original) owner added another membrane, so It's probably a bit more.
The manual calls them sepralators, but can I assume they're a standard membrane? They're inside 3 seven foot long SS tubes, capped and filled with a storage solution. Since I wouldn't know what I was looking at anyway, I left them sealed up. They were new the last year the guy ran the unit, so they've only got one season under their belt.
It's got a 1hp feed pump and a 5hp high pressure pump. I didn't test them, but was assured they worked fine.
The defect? There's supposed to be a small restrictor plate in a valve on the concentrate output. It shattered under pressure and was lost somewhere. I'll need to get another one, or get a measurement on the hole size so I can get one made. The previous owner called everyone that might be able to help, but nobody could tell him what size the oriface should be.
Does anyone else have this machine and could measure that hole for me?
Oh - By the Way - I paid $200 for the machine, so I can't say I got a raw deal.
THe label & manual says it's a Small Brothers "Sap Brother", made under license from Osmonics. It's name plate says 240 GPH, but the previous (original) owner added another membrane, so It's probably a bit more.
The manual calls them sepralators, but can I assume they're a standard membrane? They're inside 3 seven foot long SS tubes, capped and filled with a storage solution. Since I wouldn't know what I was looking at anyway, I left them sealed up. They were new the last year the guy ran the unit, so they've only got one season under their belt.
It's got a 1hp feed pump and a 5hp high pressure pump. I didn't test them, but was assured they worked fine.
The defect? There's supposed to be a small restrictor plate in a valve on the concentrate output. It shattered under pressure and was lost somewhere. I'll need to get another one, or get a measurement on the hole size so I can get one made. The previous owner called everyone that might be able to help, but nobody could tell him what size the oriface should be.
Does anyone else have this machine and could measure that hole for me?
Oh - By the Way - I paid $200 for the machine, so I can't say I got a raw deal.