I've got a ten year old (15?) Kreepy that until recently was working just fine. I have a fiberglass over gunnite surface.
I've back washed the filter. Got great suction. Kreepy sounds normal, but is moving very slowly and continues to get stuck on vertical paths. It just sits there. I figured the system was needing a backwash, but that made no difference.
Pleated seal is new; wings in good shape. Flapper free and easy moving; again, it sounds normal when it runs and makes the same ripples on the surface via the hose.
I am using the old style regulator (the "new ones" are truly awful to keep seated on that silly plate!) I have tried adjusting the bypass on the regulator.
I am stuck. So is Kreepy.
I am moving out of here in a year or so. I hate to spend the bucks on a new cleaner. This has got to be something simple that I am overlooking.
Suggestions?
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Now Feb 3.
Thanks for your replies.
Removed the original regulator. Inspect, inspect, and again. Seems like it always did. No cracks that have not been mended. (I have a mechanical background and still cannot wrap my head around how that **** thing works!)
Looked at my old post
http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/82936-Kreepy-Stops-Dead?highlight=kreepy+stuck
Duh! Inspected hoses for leaks. None visible.
Leaf trap is empty. No debris in the Main Body or Drive Tubes; not in the top nor the bottom.
Take out regulator, connect Kreepy directly to the suction line. Still gets stuck. Arrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!!!!
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Watched these to videos; awesome! This guy plays with these as easily as they are Leggos or something similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYfMA16VYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4s3HO3GhWQ
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Inspected the "Swivel Head Assembly" for cracks and such, as advised in the above video links. Nada. Nichts. Zilch. Zip.
Removed the "Foot Pad" to inspect the "Flapper." Little stress cracks here and there, but seems to be in working order, generally solid.
---> Foot pad is worn a wee bit, and only thus; but why should this matter????
---> IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT FOOT PADS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
It is worn, but I can't imagine how much difference that would make, except (oh, Christ!) that there is not enough space between the bottom of the foot pad (as it is worn down) so that there is not enough room for water to get under the foot pad????
---> CHIME IN HERE POOLIES!
---> HAVE I HIT ON SOMETHING HERE???
Try to put back together. The freakin' Foot Pad is like concrete; spend about 20 minutes 2 different times trying to put it on the "Main Body."
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Sit back and have two martinis (always a Best Bet!) and read a book for a while.
Epiphany! Put Foot Pad in a small plastic bucket, and into the uWave until I can just barely poke my finger into the water.
Remove Foot Pad (it ain't nearly as hot as the water) and it is as compliant as buddah; install in about one or two minutes. Why did I not do that earlier? Duh.
---> Martini contemplation {compensation} has its benefits.... !
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Now the bottom line. The **** thing is running up and down all of the pool walls like a Nascar Vehicle.
I have no clue what the what is going on.
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I remain, bewildered.
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JUST A HUNCH.
I went down and measured the depth of the grooves on the front of the Foot Pad.
ABOUT 0.172".
Is it possible that the Foot Pad has worn down the the extent that it cannot get enough water into the main body thru the grooves on the foot pad, and thus gets stuck to the surface via the pump vacuum???
I figure.
What say 'yall?
I've back washed the filter. Got great suction. Kreepy sounds normal, but is moving very slowly and continues to get stuck on vertical paths. It just sits there. I figured the system was needing a backwash, but that made no difference.
Pleated seal is new; wings in good shape. Flapper free and easy moving; again, it sounds normal when it runs and makes the same ripples on the surface via the hose.
I am using the old style regulator (the "new ones" are truly awful to keep seated on that silly plate!) I have tried adjusting the bypass on the regulator.
I am stuck. So is Kreepy.
I am moving out of here in a year or so. I hate to spend the bucks on a new cleaner. This has got to be something simple that I am overlooking.
Suggestions?
~~~~~~
Now Feb 3.
Thanks for your replies.
Removed the original regulator. Inspect, inspect, and again. Seems like it always did. No cracks that have not been mended. (I have a mechanical background and still cannot wrap my head around how that **** thing works!)
Looked at my old post
http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/82936-Kreepy-Stops-Dead?highlight=kreepy+stuck
Duh! Inspected hoses for leaks. None visible.
Leaf trap is empty. No debris in the Main Body or Drive Tubes; not in the top nor the bottom.
Take out regulator, connect Kreepy directly to the suction line. Still gets stuck. Arrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!!!!
~~~~~
Watched these to videos; awesome! This guy plays with these as easily as they are Leggos or something similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYfMA16VYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4s3HO3GhWQ
~~~~~
Inspected the "Swivel Head Assembly" for cracks and such, as advised in the above video links. Nada. Nichts. Zilch. Zip.
Removed the "Foot Pad" to inspect the "Flapper." Little stress cracks here and there, but seems to be in working order, generally solid.
---> Foot pad is worn a wee bit, and only thus; but why should this matter????
---> IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT FOOT PADS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
It is worn, but I can't imagine how much difference that would make, except (oh, Christ!) that there is not enough space between the bottom of the foot pad (as it is worn down) so that there is not enough room for water to get under the foot pad????
---> CHIME IN HERE POOLIES!
---> HAVE I HIT ON SOMETHING HERE???
Try to put back together. The freakin' Foot Pad is like concrete; spend about 20 minutes 2 different times trying to put it on the "Main Body."
~~~~~
Sit back and have two martinis (always a Best Bet!) and read a book for a while.
Epiphany! Put Foot Pad in a small plastic bucket, and into the uWave until I can just barely poke my finger into the water.
Remove Foot Pad (it ain't nearly as hot as the water) and it is as compliant as buddah; install in about one or two minutes. Why did I not do that earlier? Duh.
---> Martini contemplation {compensation} has its benefits.... !
~~~~~
Now the bottom line. The **** thing is running up and down all of the pool walls like a Nascar Vehicle.
- Oh, and now, after two hours, it is stuck again.
I have no clue what the what is going on.
~~~~~
I remain, bewildered.
~~~~~
JUST A HUNCH.
I went down and measured the depth of the grooves on the front of the Foot Pad.
ABOUT 0.172".
Is it possible that the Foot Pad has worn down the the extent that it cannot get enough water into the main body thru the grooves on the foot pad, and thus gets stuck to the surface via the pump vacuum???
I figure.
What say 'yall?