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Waxman

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I had been experiencing a problem with one of my self-serve pumps chattering. after about a week or so of checking things and cleaning the valves of the pump a couple of times I shut the bay down and removed the inlet plumbing at the urging of a friend. The pipe coming into the pump was almost fully obstructed. Once I cleaned all the plumbing and reassembled it worked great again.
 

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Randy

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Dave, what the heck is that stuff?
 

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I'm not sure. 17 years worth of gunk???

It crumbled easily and the pipe was clean after 20 min of soak time in hot water and green dawn.
 

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Maybe this is related to your issue, I've found that brass fittings imported from China built up debris faster than higher quality brass from an American manufacture.
 
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