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I ran my pump dry for a bit. Long enough to warp the pump basket from heat. Now it appears as though I may have a suction side leak. It takes awhile to prime once I turn on, even when it does finally prime now the basket retains some air spinning at the top, once turned off all water...

When I closed my pool in the fall, one of the eyeball returns was still below the water level line and so I used an elbow to get it above, blew it out, and capped it off. Done this same thing before. When I opened the pool this year, I was unscrewing the whole elbow, and after several turns I...

I will be closing my pool this year myself for the first time. I have a new cyclone. My pool has one skimmer and one main drain on the suction side, and on the return side also two lines - one leading to three eyeballs and the other to a lower return. I was hoping to just work from the...

Newish pool owner on a house purchased in 2017, still getting the hang of things. The pool was installed in 2001. I believe the sand filter is the original from 2001, and I'm guessing it's still on the original sand with never a deep cleaning. Seems to filter OK but took several days to clear...

Does it matter how the wires and leads are connected to a capacitor when reinstalling on a pump? I didn’t take a picture before I disconnected, but I don’t know if that would’ve even mattered. Theres no color coding or anything...

I just had my pool opened for the first time, from a house purchased late last year. Pool specs in sig. The previous owners had used hockey pucks for primary chlorination mechanism, for many years. Upon advice of this board I bought a TF-100 test kit. My initial readings today, after the...