Mark and Dave, I consider you two BOTH heavy-hitters here. Tell us how you did it, newbies and old guys can learn a thing or two.
I had the same situation happen to me a couple years ago and I run a water softener in the shop and on the truck as well as a filter system. I am finding the high heat can scale up the system faster. I had around 3800 Hours on my pump so I thought that it was the pump going bad. Had a pump overnighted and that did not work either. I do run a chemical injection system so I found scaling on my
Butler on the front panel block that the extra male quick connects are, and the chemical injection goes into. I actually had to take that apart and soak in toilet bowl cleaner and still scrape the crap out. It then happened a year later to me even after diligent matainence of our water softeners. It just seems to be our water in this area and high heat from the unit. Now we descale monthly. Just 60 miles away where my brothers do business, they don't have the same problem with their
Butlers.
Now in Dave Gills situation, he ended up having some scaling at that block on the front panel, but he also still found it would not move water. The pressure gauge would hold pressure but no water from high pressure line. In my case my plug was at that block, but Dave's was at the heat exchanger. He determined that by opening up the cold water flow to the unit which will push and pull water away from the heat exchanger. So this got us to finding his plug up was at the exchanger. I have found you need to mix your deascaler at 50/50 and get it into the system (start at high speed, then go to idle speed) and let it cycle from your bucket on the floor feeding the unit and cycling the descaler until you get flow from your high pressure hose. On the
Butler, we just put a female connector on the end and let it cycle back into the bucket of descaler. Don't suck up the junk that comes back to the bucket and within about 2 to 5 minutes, you should get it opened up. I have found I better be prepared to clean the Wand and presprayer screens about 3 times the next day and also descale again at the end of the week again.
After years of never having to descale, I had experienced the same as Dave. Its a bummer that he also had to get a new pump and overnight it the same as I did, but now it is new and should have another 4-5000 hours in it. They never seem to break when it is convenient! Is there ever a good time for a break down?!
Just glad we were able to connect so we could brain storm and get to the bottom of this faster! That's what I love about these boards!
Mark
Saiger
