Hi Mark,
I had the same situation in our old house but instead of a sump pump I
used an evaporative cooler pump. They are cheap and use plastic
impellers. You do have to turn it on and off or just let it run and you
would need the higher capacity one. I just tapped the output hose into
an above grade drain line. Good luck.
Chauncey
Sauerwald Mark wrote:
I have a relatively new darkroom - 3 years old. The darkroom is in the basement, and we are on a septic system, with the inlet to the septic tank above the level of the darkroom. To get the waste water out of the darkroom, the sink drains into a 'laundry tray system' which is essentially a box with a sump pump in it.
Recently, the pump stopped working - and it turns out that the problem is with the float switch - a replacement is on order. The thing that has me wondering is the fact that when I opened up the Laundry Tray system, I noticed a lot more corrosion on the metal parts of the pump than I would have expected. My darkroom effluent is probably pretty typical - 99% of it is wash water - I do not send fix or toners down the drain, I do send my spent developers and stop bath down the drain, but I would have thought that they would be diluted enough not to contribute to the corrosion.
Has anybody else run into anything like this?
Mark
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