Bill Edwards
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I have a lovely Petter diesel that came with a knackered pressure washer pump attached, and I need a new pump.
What I'm struggling with is finding a suitable pump that'll have enough power to blast mud and farm mess off anything, so many cheap pressure washers aren't any good. At work there's a decent 3000 psi engine driven unit with a flow rate that I think is around 15 lpm and it is good, and that's the kind of performance I'm hoping to achieve.
eBay has loads of '3000 psi' pressure washer pumps starting at £60 going into many hundreds. Some of them claim high psi but low flow rate of say 7.5lpm which is half a decent one. Many don't even give a flow rate.
I realise a cheap one isn't going to last like a good one, but for the handful of times a year it'll be used are they up the job - will it have plenty of power, and will it last more than 10 minutes?
Examples I've found:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Replacem...243964&hash=item58f9143c11:g:iM4AAOSwD9dZzMOI
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Horizont...ispr=1&hash=item340da5e39e:g:eJMAAOSwQ75dFIKf
This actually looks like it might be an industrial piece of kit, but it's a huge amount more and still doesn't give any flow rate!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pressure...=223568332874988b4d40cf0447c8b9e8782388a601df
Anybody have any experience in this area?
What I'm struggling with is finding a suitable pump that'll have enough power to blast mud and farm mess off anything, so many cheap pressure washers aren't any good. At work there's a decent 3000 psi engine driven unit with a flow rate that I think is around 15 lpm and it is good, and that's the kind of performance I'm hoping to achieve.
eBay has loads of '3000 psi' pressure washer pumps starting at £60 going into many hundreds. Some of them claim high psi but low flow rate of say 7.5lpm which is half a decent one. Many don't even give a flow rate.
I realise a cheap one isn't going to last like a good one, but for the handful of times a year it'll be used are they up the job - will it have plenty of power, and will it last more than 10 minutes?
Examples I've found:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Replacem...243964&hash=item58f9143c11:g:iM4AAOSwD9dZzMOI
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Horizont...ispr=1&hash=item340da5e39e:g:eJMAAOSwQ75dFIKf
This actually looks like it might be an industrial piece of kit, but it's a huge amount more and still doesn't give any flow rate!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pressure...=223568332874988b4d40cf0447c8b9e8782388a601df
Anybody have any experience in this area?