[Shop-talk] Well tank losing air pressure

[Jim Franklin]

Not long after posting this I finally found a video where some glorious soul had taken one apart. My vision of the bladder holding the air was incorrect; the bladder holds the water, and the air is inside the tank. I then picked at a suspicious paint bubble and soaped it, and that's where I'm losing the air, pinhole leak.

Here's the video if you'd like to see the innards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ybMRYrt8U

jim

On Sep 4, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org> wrote:

> I have an Amtrol WX-203 (installed Sep 2009) and I need to add air more and more often otherwise the pump short cycles like crazy. There's no water spitting from the air valve and no air coming out of the faucets. Is it still a shot tank? I soaped the air valve and don't see any bubbles. Can't think where the air might be going. The tank isn't rusty except for the round frame part at the bottom. 
> 
> Easy to replace and it'll probably cure it, but I'd really like to know for sure. Google wasn't much help, surprisingly. 
> 
> thanks,
> jim
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