This is where people tell me, Sean that's no big deal. My oil always look like that.
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This is where people tell me, Sean that's no big deal. My oil always look like that.
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
That is what my Busch R-5 pump oil looks like when the pump is running. I think that if the oil looks like that when the pump is off, there is water is it.
Joe
2004- 470 taps on gravity and buckets
2006- 590 taps on gravity and buckets 300 gph RO
2009- 845 taps on vacuum no buckets, 600 gph RO
2010- 925 taps on vacuum new 2 stage vacuum pump
2014- 3045 taps on vacuum, new 1200 gph RO
2015- 3104 taps on vacuum
2017- 3213 taps on vacuum
3' x 10' oil fired evaporator with steamaway
I agree with Joe Looks like emulsified oil but my Airtech looks that way but come morning its all clear and ready to go. What kind of RO has a pump like that?
I had a deer run 125 years ago that a piston in the pump went out because the pump ran dry for a few moments.....that a pump that has water in it and needs replacement.
custom made 2x7 intensofire
With SL pans
250 deer run
300 3/16 (new 2016)
500 sacks around the neighborhood
****. That's what I was afraid of. Is this something I can break down and fix or is the whole thing shot. It's also a Deer Run 125. What could have caused this? I didn't have any problems last season.
Woodville Maples
www.woodvillemaples.com
www.facebook.com/woodvillemaples
Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
I don't think that you have to do anything except to change the oil filter, oil and wipe out the inside as best as possible. I has all sorts of problems with the mechanical moisture trap for my Busch pump the first year I ran it and had to change the oil a couple of times after sap got past the trap. One day, (just before I got an electric moisture trap), the land owner where my 2,200 offsite taps are, called me at 6:00 am to tel me I should get over to the sap shed real soon because there was a full 1 1/2" stream of sap coming out of the exhaust. Changed the oil, filters, cleaned it up, and still, 4 later seasons, runs great, absolutely no ill effects.
Joe
2004- 470 taps on gravity and buckets
2006- 590 taps on gravity and buckets 300 gph RO
2009- 845 taps on vacuum no buckets, 600 gph RO
2010- 925 taps on vacuum new 2 stage vacuum pump
2014- 3045 taps on vacuum, new 1200 gph RO
2015- 3104 taps on vacuum
2017- 3213 taps on vacuum
3' x 10' oil fired evaporator with steamaway
JoeJ
you are talking about the completely wrong pump. This is a piston pump for an RO.
You likely have had cavitation in the pump at times. Happens on the 125 because there is no low pressure feed pump. I sent my pump in to Ray and he repaired it, can’t remember the cost but I think it was a few hundred.
Last edited by jmayerl; 10-07-2018 at 06:22 AM.
custom made 2x7 intensofire
With SL pans
250 deer run
300 3/16 (new 2016)
500 sacks around the neighborhood
Thanks for all the feedback. I'll give Ray a call and see what he thinks. The season before last, my line froze while the RO was running, (Yeah, it was that cold to freeze a 1" line.) and the pump was cavitating. I shut down and used the RO the rest of that season and the next without problems (as far as I know). Maybe that started something that got worse over time.
Ugh, it's always something. I guess the upside is it is October and not March.
Thanks again,
Sean
Woodville Maples
www.woodvillemaples.com
www.facebook.com/woodvillemaples
Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.
I've used a deer run ro for 7 years and think it probably just need to change the oil.If not that whole pump if I remember correctly is less than $200
jmayerl,
Thanks for pointing that out. Guess I need to pay more attention to the whole thread title
Joe
2004- 470 taps on gravity and buckets
2006- 590 taps on gravity and buckets 300 gph RO
2009- 845 taps on vacuum no buckets, 600 gph RO
2010- 925 taps on vacuum new 2 stage vacuum pump
2014- 3045 taps on vacuum, new 1200 gph RO
2015- 3104 taps on vacuum
2017- 3213 taps on vacuum
3' x 10' oil fired evaporator with steamaway