The two existing pumps had been operating in quite a harsh environment pumping used laundry water back to an internal treatment plant.
They provide laundry services for a broad range of customers including health care, hospitality, food processing, manufacturing, retail office & workplace just to name a few, therefore the Gorman Rupp pumps are expected to pump varying degrees of waste water, including suspended solids such as grit and cloth fibres.
Although the two existing pumps were still operating satisfactorily, it was decided to renew them to ensure continued first-rate and dependable service into the future.
The other advantage with again choosing to replace the existing 14A20-B pumps (which had been in service for 27 years) with new 14A20-B pumps was that they would sit on exactly the same footprint and would line up perfectly with the existing piping arrangement.
Often, when one goes to replace an appliance that is 25+ years old, the model has been replaced with a less robust contemporary “alternative”. Not so with this Gorman-Rupp Pump. It weighs exactly the same as it did 30 years ago, with the same quality iron and steel used in its construction. The only things to have changed are the gasket and seals materials and the bearings as they have improved over the years. And just to make sure pumps perform exactly as they should, each and every Gorman-Rupp pump is still tested at the factory prior to the pumps being “allowed” to ship.
The new pumps were built onto bases with new motors by Hydro Innovations at our Sydney factory, and the two pump sets were delivered and installed.
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