I have a funny feeling that if march was to offer a give away they would get flooded with emails due to all the people now watching this thread.
Their email box would spontaneous combust, i'll now be watching this thread.
Walter you have your computer on HBT?
I especially like that March stainless pump head with the center inlet and the volute over a impeller design inside, it's the high price I can not come to terms with purchasing two of them.
It seemed to me that "Made in the USA" was the point he was trying to get across. While this may be beside the point, it's the reason China is kicking everyone's ace in manufacturing. They make it and ship it half way around the world for cheaper than we're willing to do it here. The sad part right now is that a lot of Americans just can't afford to buy American.
Lets all remember that homebrewing is a hobby and not something that is required for daily living.
Shame that they're so pricy, I prefer the center inlet design, but not enough to pay the cost of 2.5 chuggers.
Lets all remember that homebrewing is a hobby and not something that is required for daily living. If someone wishes to buy American they have that choice just as they do to spend the gobs of money we do for homebrewing in general.
Exactly the reason I have to try and keep it inexpensive. It's a hobby that SWMBO already thinks I spend too much on and frankly, I think I do too but I love to do it. I'd absolutely love to have a rig that a bottomless wallet could buy and build but what's the fun in that?...kills the ingenuity.
Pro American buy American what's more American than a Chebbie GMC truck made in Brazil?
This didn't happen overnight but sure puts the hurt on American companies and products.
What has been done internally with the 315HF head vs the 315 head to allow 18' max head vs 12'?
This sounds like a large improvement for pushing thru long chiller coils having a lot of fluid resistance,
GPM isn't the problem it's the GPM under a high chiller flow resistance. Just had to ask as the 315 & 315HF are priced the same.
http://morebeer.com/view_product/11622//March_High_Temperature_Brewing_Pump_-_High_Flow
Can you post the part number and price for the 815HF impeller? Will this fit the 809?
BrewBeemer, although you are getting 18' instead of 12' head you only gain an extra 2.6psi with that extra head pressure......assuming there is enough restriction in the system for the pump to actually generate the psi to begin with.
-Walter
Pumping thru a 30' to 50' 1/2" chiller coil the fluid friction adds up rather quickly was the reason for asking.
Now will the 315HF impeller after installing into a 315 head increase the head from 12' to 18' without purchasing any more pump head parts?
This is a rather large head increase converting a sluggish flowing pump under the above conditions to one that a brewer can live with vs stepping up to a larger hp and higher head pump.$$$$$$$
All good added bits of information Walter, thanks you must be a home brewer or one with an intrest in the hobby.
Walter,
i've always mentioned in general as well on this forum a good practice when using any low powered pump be it magnetic or centrifugal to take the manufactures performance specs and divide them in half. This way one can always throttle down if needed. Manufactures rate flow specs at the best possible conditions this does not apply in real life as nothing is worse than a underpowered pump system resulting with a sluggish whirlpool or liquid transfer.
Your opinions on this 50% pump rule rating for a successful system of long tubing runs having many fittings with directional and elevation changes.
Feel free to critque and comment on my above mentioned statements.
guys i'm looking into the ss chugger. the only thing that i will be using it for is to pump from my liquor tun up to my mash tun which is about 4-6 feet above the liquor tun. i can then use gravity to push it down to the boil pot. my question is, will it make it up that far and not take forever, and enough to be worth the $100, or should i just use gravity as well for that?
guys i'm looking into the ss chugger. the only thing that i will be using it for is to pump from my liquor tun up to my mash tun which is about 4-6 feet above the liquor tun. i can then use gravity to push it down to the boil pot. my question is, will it make it up that far and not take forever, and enough to be worth the $100, or should i just use gravity as well for that?
first sorry there is no caps, i am remoted in from work to my home pc and its a pain to get the caps on and off. second, i like that walter is on here defending his product but not putting down the competition, so walter, can you sell me on your product, this one in particular: h315hf. i have some concerns about the product (actually all pumps in general) and being able push the 170 some degree water from my liquor tun to my mash tun, since the reviews that ive seen on pumps are extremely mixed, lots of complaints and lots of works great. all i need it for is this procedure, but like i said it needs to go about 4 to 6 feet up, there will be no elbow fittings and such right now as i am just going to have some correctly rated tubing carrying the water up to the mash.
Maybe Walter should have his own thread for Q&A about March pumps.
This thread is/was about a replacement option the the March pumps.
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