My name is Larry, I grew up in a small town and my parents put a 16x32 inground in during the early 80's, we were there about 5 years until the oil bust and moved.
Decades later we've had a couple smaller pools for our kids, a rolled fiberglass "hard side" (bolt ends together) with a liner that the sand wedge washed out and "hemorrhoided" under the edge.
Second pool was an Intex inflatable top ring pool. I thing the ring finally wouldn't hold air. Both these pools had type A/C cartridge filters as did our new $400 16'x42" Coleman (Bestway) from Walmart. (For the grandkids)
I added a Walmart skimmer and blocked the second pool suction inlet with a plug as the skimmer didn't suck hard enough. The cartridge filter pump has a grinding noise and we figured on updating it with a sand filter pump.
I hated the timer attached to the cord, I wanted the pump to run 24-7 and the cord was too short and too long. The pool is I think 75' from the house, too short to plug in, but with the 75' 10/3 extension cord it was too long. I cut all but about 5' off and just put a heavy plug on it, no safety and that connection sits under a 5 gallon bucket so it doesn't get wet...
A buddy with a much larger pool upgraded his 8 year old... I think its maybe 24'x54"?.... pool with a new one, but he has a big pool sand filter and pump, so the SF70110-2 pump had just been sitting, unopened in his shed.
I had to order some 1-1/2" to 1-1/4" adapters as my pool has the nipples that stick out of the pool side. I used my skimmer and reinstalled the second side suction and used the shut off tee valve that came with the new pump. I used the adapter to put the other shut off tee valve directly on the jet nipple.
I had ordered another 1-1/2" hose because I thought I was short one, only to find it inside the sand filter housing, this was okay because the new one was longer and allowed me to move the pump further around the side. The shortest hose (not the filter to pump hose) I'm using on the backwash side, I'll use the other adapter and get some flat vinyl hose to clamp on it and divert the backwash further from the pool.
Now I'm somehow sucking air at the point where the hose attaches to the inlet side of the pre-filter on the pump. That inlet has grooves on the inside of the opening, like the negative space of a cogged gear. The gasket isn't deep enough into the opening to cover the grooves and I think its sucking past the gasket, no matter how hard I tighten it. It drips there when the pump is off.
I've added teflon tape at my wife's suggestion, but thats not the sealing point. Now this is the new long hose I bought and I don't remember if its an Intex or not (i.e. official Chinese or cheap knock-off Chinese). We may try swapping ends, otherwise I'll need to relocate the pump and swap the shorter backwash hose for this one.
The whole thing is a couple year folly as once I get my shop built I want to put a 24' diameter bottomless stock tank ring in with a custom liner, I want a seating ring all the way around the pool, like 18"-24" deep and 54" in the middle with a drain. Skimmer on the side and 3 to 4 jets angled to swirl. Some at seat level, some at calf level.
I may add massage jets in a couple spots, my dad had the stairs added to our inground and put a jet in both sides, he added brass gate valves to replace the cheap PVC ones and we'd shut the pool jets off and just pump to the stairs, it was great.
Decades later we've had a couple smaller pools for our kids, a rolled fiberglass "hard side" (bolt ends together) with a liner that the sand wedge washed out and "hemorrhoided" under the edge.
Second pool was an Intex inflatable top ring pool. I thing the ring finally wouldn't hold air. Both these pools had type A/C cartridge filters as did our new $400 16'x42" Coleman (Bestway) from Walmart. (For the grandkids)
I added a Walmart skimmer and blocked the second pool suction inlet with a plug as the skimmer didn't suck hard enough. The cartridge filter pump has a grinding noise and we figured on updating it with a sand filter pump.
I hated the timer attached to the cord, I wanted the pump to run 24-7 and the cord was too short and too long. The pool is I think 75' from the house, too short to plug in, but with the 75' 10/3 extension cord it was too long. I cut all but about 5' off and just put a heavy plug on it, no safety and that connection sits under a 5 gallon bucket so it doesn't get wet...
A buddy with a much larger pool upgraded his 8 year old... I think its maybe 24'x54"?.... pool with a new one, but he has a big pool sand filter and pump, so the SF70110-2 pump had just been sitting, unopened in his shed.
I had to order some 1-1/2" to 1-1/4" adapters as my pool has the nipples that stick out of the pool side. I used my skimmer and reinstalled the second side suction and used the shut off tee valve that came with the new pump. I used the adapter to put the other shut off tee valve directly on the jet nipple.
I had ordered another 1-1/2" hose because I thought I was short one, only to find it inside the sand filter housing, this was okay because the new one was longer and allowed me to move the pump further around the side. The shortest hose (not the filter to pump hose) I'm using on the backwash side, I'll use the other adapter and get some flat vinyl hose to clamp on it and divert the backwash further from the pool.
Now I'm somehow sucking air at the point where the hose attaches to the inlet side of the pre-filter on the pump. That inlet has grooves on the inside of the opening, like the negative space of a cogged gear. The gasket isn't deep enough into the opening to cover the grooves and I think its sucking past the gasket, no matter how hard I tighten it. It drips there when the pump is off.
I've added teflon tape at my wife's suggestion, but thats not the sealing point. Now this is the new long hose I bought and I don't remember if its an Intex or not (i.e. official Chinese or cheap knock-off Chinese). We may try swapping ends, otherwise I'll need to relocate the pump and swap the shorter backwash hose for this one.
The whole thing is a couple year folly as once I get my shop built I want to put a 24' diameter bottomless stock tank ring in with a custom liner, I want a seating ring all the way around the pool, like 18"-24" deep and 54" in the middle with a drain. Skimmer on the side and 3 to 4 jets angled to swirl. Some at seat level, some at calf level.
I may add massage jets in a couple spots, my dad had the stairs added to our inground and put a jet in both sides, he added brass gate valves to replace the cheap PVC ones and we'd shut the pool jets off and just pump to the stairs, it was great.
There are only two posts listed under your profile, and they are the two posts in this thread. If you started a new thread about your motor, I'm not seeing it anywhere. But no, there were no rules violations or anything odd like that. Perhaps try it again and post it in the forum listed below.
