Brian Whatcott wrote in
:

Centrifugal impellors can take plenty of abuse, and absorb lots of
power.


One of my friends likes to bid on government surplus junk.

One of the surplus flyers he gets had a "portable fire pump" in nearly
new, operable condition for bid. He didn't bother with the fine print,
thinking it was a "Handy Billy" or one of the Navy's sailor-carried
portable pumps that might be handy around the place.

They called him from the Supply Center and asked him to come pick up his
pump. So, he took his truck down and nearly couldn't bring it home! It
was a portable pump, allright. With a 4-wheel trailer! There was a 8V92
Detroit Diesel Two-stroker hooked to this gawd-awful-big pump that fed a
firehose manifold with EIGHT outlets of various sizes. It also came with
4 firehoses and a huge suction hose with big screen filter on the bottom
to throw into the lake. It even had diesel fuel in the tank and had just
been serviced.

We took it to the lake boat landing just to see if it worked.....(c;

His whole neighborhood could be in flames and he'd have it put out in
just a couple of minutes....(c;

He paid $800. The next bidder bid $400 and that was all. Some fire
department in Ohio called him to ask if he'd sell it to them for $5000.
After a bit of dickering, he got $8K for it....not bad for one trip to
the base.

Make a helluva bilge pump....or JET DRIVE!



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