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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john martin on September 11, 2016, 09:36:24 pm

Title: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: john martin on September 11, 2016, 09:36:24 pm

2-3 hundred psi , good flow , how bad could it be ?
for if you pump goes down and u dont have another machine .
http://www.agrieuro.co.uk/geotech-kf1100-electric-motor-spray-pump-with-single-phase-motor-p-7181.html

im gonna order the more expensive comet diaphragm pump  ... but the cheap one might be fine
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: Mike Halliday on September 11, 2016, 10:11:39 pm
Does it have a pressure cut off when you release the trigger? It might just have a on & off setting can't tell from the info
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: john martin on September 11, 2016, 10:22:33 pm
im no expert on pumps , i see a tube with a filter to siphon from a tank , then a tank return tube .... and on the other side the tool is attached .  So i presume it has an uploader / regulator of sorts built onto it
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: john martin on September 11, 2016, 10:36:08 pm
actually it is a bit confusing , im not sure if see return hose or not , might be electric cutoff
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: john martin on September 25, 2016, 07:28:17 pm
In with the crop spraying pump  ......
Comet MC-18 in the enforcer

(http://i65.tinypic.com/119r02s.jpg)
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: CleanerCarpets on September 26, 2016, 05:15:34 pm
so John have you fitted that as a replacement or as well as the other pump?
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: john martin on September 26, 2016, 07:05:17 pm
so John have you fitted that as a replacement or as well as the other pump?
its a really big thing up close ! you wouldnt get that in as well as the original pump .
My pumptec needed rebuilding as well as the regulator , pressure loss etc ,  i was going to use the comet as an external backup , but i figured ,hell il try it inside . 
On paper u wouldnt want it ,  heavy 600w producing 215psi max  ....  but in reality its got more flow than the regular pumptec so it feels powerfull ,  an open hose attached squirts water out a longer way than the pumptec i have .
So i just tried it out today , i like the fact there is no fussy priming , just switch it on a it squirts , its a bit louder than a pumptec but its not an unpleasant noise .  Im sure its not intended for inside a carpet machine , but il see how it goes , so far i like it .
Title: Re: inexpensive backup pump
Post by: CleanerCarpets on September 26, 2016, 07:39:54 pm
its look solid enough and well put together.

i agree about psi's and flow, the 165psi pump i have in my back up machine has much better flow than the Pumptec pump i have in the other machine when thats set at 165 as well