Recent content by rwbil

Polaris 380. Next step is to open her up and look inside.

My Polaris is not picking up leaves so it upside down and it addition to water coming out the 3 ports, water is shooting out from the body. Is this repairable.

I am not sure how to interpret this information. The water level in the pool drops to about 1/16" to 1/8" lower than the water level in the bucket and that is with the pump running constantly. I have no idea if that is a problem or not. As I stated there could be other factors that account...

You said your evaporation is 1" a day, did you ever try and do the bucket test? I am just curious when others did it did the water stay the exact same both in and outside the bucket. I just see possible variation in shading on how the sun hits various areas of the pool vs the bucket and the...

That was a pretty simple test to do. When I took my house over to the pump housing and sprayed it with water the housing filled up with water and I did the air disappeared. So something in that area is not air tight. Maybe the plastic top has a crack or something. I recently changed the...

Yes I have a rock in the bucket that keeps it weighted down. But I only using a 5Q bucket, not a 5 Gallon Bucket. I was just not sure if an 1/8" a day or less difference in the water levels is a problem or not.

My pool is leaking water, so I dropped the water below the skimmer and grouted and caulked anything that looked like a crack in the ceramic tile and skimmer. I then brought the water level up in the pool to it was just about 1/4" or so above the skimmer to just let water in the skimmer. I...