[Spridgets] Spridget Water Pump

[Peter Caldwell]

At 01:00 PM 5/20/2009, Timothy H. Collins wrote:
>PPP> Takes some time and some tooling.
>I can't imagine that you'd make any money fooling with them unless 
>someone had to have an exact original pump and then of course the 
>pricing structure would be different. Replacements of the aluminum 
>kind are around $25. That can't be much of your shop labor/overhead 
>time not to mention parts.

Very true (ask my wife), BUT, the cast impellers are more efficient, 
less prone to becoming shrapnel, and the iron bodies are better 
suited to the generator, or more importantly, alternator mounting. 
(alternators typically get tightened more tightly;-)


>The internals of the water pump are interesting

>  ( we should talk about carbon faced seals and ceramic)

>and it is sad, to me, that they have become throw away items. This 
>seems to be a small picture of the larger problem in our throw away society.

I agree. reduce, reuse, recycle....

Peter C