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Old February 22nd 05, 11:56 PM
Roy
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Default The Humble little pump

While I can't take credit for this I do think its pretty good.


Not many people think about this, but the humble water pump that costs
maybe 2 to 5 hundred dollars is in reality a little marvel of
engineering.

You install it and set it running and in many cases forget about it
until something goes wrong with it, usually, in most cases a good few
years down the line.

Most people quite rightly when they purchase a pump want to know what
sort of throughput it gives them in gallons per hour, but even the
simplest of working out will tell you what it delivers in a year which
is where the real wonder that is the water pump comes in to it's own
as a piece of engineeering.

If you take a pump designed to run at 3000GPH and run it 24/7/365 you
will find that at the end of a year of running that it has moved
some..26,280,000 gallons of water.

Marvellous things aren't they, and far from humble.
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Old February 23rd 05, 06:13 PM
DKat
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"Roy" wrote in message
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While I can't take credit for this I do think its pretty good.


Not many people think about this, but the humble water pump that costs
maybe 2 to 5 hundred dollars is in reality a little marvel of
engineering.

You install it and set it running and in many cases forget about it
until something goes wrong with it, usually, in most cases a good few
years down the line.

Most people quite rightly when they purchase a pump want to know what
sort of throughput it gives them in gallons per hour, but even the
simplest of working out will tell you what it delivers in a year which
is where the real wonder that is the water pump comes in to it's own
as a piece of engineeering.

If you take a pump designed to run at 3000GPH and run it 24/7/365 you
will find that at the end of a year of running that it has moved
some..26,280,000 gallons of water.


I enjoyed this point to this point.


 




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