Who knows Lapierre releasers?????????????????

[jtbucket]

I know, youtube is taking forever to get it loaded. I just checked it's status and it says 12 minutes until download is complete. Please try again soon. I'm headed up to watch Mike Christian boil for a bit and am curious to hear all of your thoughts on this thing. P.S, this is "the wife" of the bucket.

[Jeremy Hanna]

try to lube float shaft with mineral oil

[jtbucket]

Even if it seems to mover freely?

[tuckermtn]

is the pump supposed to turn that slowly? my guess is something is up with the pump. I don't know those kind of pumps, but is there a chance it isn't getting liquid- looks like air being pushed in to the cage tank.

[jtbucket]

Eric, I think you're on to something. I don't feel like the pump is doing it's job. I don't understand the air issue either which is why I tried to show it in the video. I'm wondering
if all of the connections look like they are done right. I didn't set it up, my husband did and I'm trying to solve it.

[Jeremy Hanna]

so on my dumpers i have valves on every mainline so that i can see if there problems at the dumper or the bush or even the pump. this has made my job so much easier to find leaks in the bush and maintain between 23"at one bush and 28" at an other. so if you can cap your lines to see if the vacuum producing vacuum or not it is a place to start your dumper looks fairly new so there shouldn't have problems

[treefinder]

you need to run at least 20 inches of vacuum. i have the same one and they need high vacuum to work. but do what others say about the shaft being clean. and it makes no sense but it works better with the more sap is going in.

[jtbucket]

So here's where we're at. We tightened some lines and set the pump on the ground, the guage started moving!! We got it up to 15 but now the releaser isn't seeming to
let go when it's full causing sap to run up into the top canister and no releasing. I really want this to work and am so appreciative of all of the replies this afternoon.

[Dennis H.]

Yeap I think you found the fix!

How much do you want to sell the hobby for? Seriously let me know.

[jtbucket]

I am perplexed with that also, from the video can you tell if I have the connections correctly? I think you guys have me convinced that the issue lies with the pump.