A Day In The Life Of Sourcing Pumps
The JWCS needs 3 pumps; one to push water across the RO membrane, one to move water from the permeate tank (clean RO produced water) to the treated tank (where the minerals have been dosed in), and one to push water to the coffee machine.
The first two were found and bought in the first two weeks, but the third one took a little longer to find.
It's not that the third pump was hard to find, it's just that the pumps I need don't come on the market super often, so I just had to be patient.
As I've said before, the idea of taking what was once a really expensive, highly engineered piece of kit and using it in a system that could never really justify buying new, but could greatly benefit from industrial-level reliability and performance, is kind of a fetish of mine.
I've done it with everything from high-altitude thermal vacuum chambers to the alternator on a Lexus for an exercise sled; I LOVE using badass rugged older gear in new projects.