I don't do my own pool maintenance but I noticed that the pump was leaking since the ground outside the pool equipment enclosure was always wet and moss kept growing that I had to stir up & kill with a salt and soap solution.
I'd read on this site in an old thread that "Epoxies and other bonding products won't work with this type of plastic and in this high pressure environment. I was not feeling like spending $180 to replace the housing so using plastic molding technique with a soldering iron I took care
of the problem. This tool needs to be 60 watts minimum because you will be working on hard plastic. You need to take
out the motor because the crack need to be fix on both sides."
I wanted to try to figure out a cheater method. I'm somewhat mechanical but I didn't want to mess with the pump and the plumbing joints.
Last week, I was successful in stopping this leak that had my Pentairpump spraying my pool heater.My fix was simply to smear GOOP Plumbing mixture on theleaky area on the pump after letting it dry for a day.
I just put some GOOP Plumbing glue onto where I'd seen water coming outafter I let it dry for many hours and I pushed the GOOP into the crack a little with my finger shielded by toiletpaper. Then I let it dry for 6 hours and now there's no leak anymore. It's been fine now for a week.
At first I'd tried GOOP Marine mixture but it seemed to be too thick. I wanted something much thinner that I could push into a crack that I could hardly see and the Plumbing GOOP was the trick.
VIOLA! FIXED. It's now been a week with my pump running 4hours/day.
NO LEAKS!
I'd read on this site in an old thread that "Epoxies and other bonding products won't work with this type of plastic and in this high pressure environment. I was not feeling like spending $180 to replace the housing so using plastic molding technique with a soldering iron I took care
of the problem. This tool needs to be 60 watts minimum because you will be working on hard plastic. You need to take
out the motor because the crack need to be fix on both sides."
I wanted to try to figure out a cheater method. I'm somewhat mechanical but I didn't want to mess with the pump and the plumbing joints.
Last week, I was successful in stopping this leak that had my Pentairpump spraying my pool heater.My fix was simply to smear GOOP Plumbing mixture on theleaky area on the pump after letting it dry for a day.
I just put some GOOP Plumbing glue onto where I'd seen water coming outafter I let it dry for many hours and I pushed the GOOP into the crack a little with my finger shielded by toiletpaper. Then I let it dry for 6 hours and now there's no leak anymore. It's been fine now for a week.
At first I'd tried GOOP Marine mixture but it seemed to be too thick. I wanted something much thinner that I could push into a crack that I could hardly see and the Plumbing GOOP was the trick.
VIOLA! FIXED. It's now been a week with my pump running 4hours/day.
NO LEAKS!