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Works well, just loud.I bought this to drain my pool cover when it has too much rainwater on it.PROS:1. It is easy to use for almost any needs to transfer smaller quantities of water.2. Depending on the need, it could be VERY effective (e.g. draining a fish tank)3. I love the filter it comes with to put on the end of the hose. It is great to use on the pool cover, and keep debris from being sucked onto the pump.4. It makes some noise, but in the outdoors, it doesn't seem to be bothersome (I don't know about inside).5. If you have patience, it is a good price for a pump to remove water from a pool cover.CONS:1. I like to have a power switch on anything that is used around water. It needs a switch of some kind. Since there is no power switch I am afraid to leave it alone when it is doing it's job.2. Since there is no power switch I am afraid to leave it alone when it is doing it's job.3. It needs some kind of fuse, just in case it gets wet and shorts.4. The cord is a bit short for my needs, but I have been able to work with it.SUMMARY:I would like to find a pump that moves more water and meets the needs noted above.For the price, it is hard to beat this little pump. Like a couple of other purchasers, I used it to flush a Rinnai tankless water heater for 45 minutes per the manufacturer's directions. The pump ran flawlessly and was hardly warm at all. Here are some observations for those who will use it for similar purposes:1. The Wayne pump is suppose to be self-priming but the instructions say to prime it with a tablespoon of vegetable oil. I primed the input hose with the water heater company's specified flushing fluid (vinegar) and it started pumping right away.2. The illustration shows a transparent hose, but I received a 6-foot yellow garden type hose of high quality with brass connectors. It would have been nice to see the liquid flowing through the hose, but this was minor as I could verify the pumping action at the outlet end of the hoses.3. The pump comes with a replacement impeller, hose gasket, motor brushes/springs, etc. Nice touch.4. Mount the lightweight pump on a wood base to give it more stability. Otherwise, it will flop around every time your hoses are moved.5. Note that the pump inlet and outlet are male fittings. This means that to connect to the tankless water heater (or perhaps to another hose), you will need a female-to-female adapter. I made one out of a piece of 10' scrap garden hose with the original female fitting at one end and I installed a replacement female fitting (sold at Home Depot for repairing hoses) at the other. One end was installed at the pump, the other at the water heater. (Short lengths of hose with female connectors at both ends are available as hookup hoses for clothes washers. New ones sometimes appear in thrift stores for as low as $1.00.)6. Wear hearing protection when operating this pump indoors. While not ear piercing, it is noisy if operated inside a room.7. When you finish flushing the waterless tank with vinegar and then with water, don't forget to flush the pump itself with water as well as the hoses and fittings. The vinegar is dilute acetic acid and it will eventually eat away at the brass plumbing fittings if not well flushed with water.8. Finally, I noticed that there is a Hydropoint 1/10 hp utility pump similar to this Wayne pump sold by Amazon. It too is suppose to be self-priming, but I bought the Wayne pump because it had 10 times the number of feedback ratings and most of them were very favorable. While the Hydropoint may be just as good (it looks somewhat similar), I was not disappointed with the Wayne pump as it paid for itself the first time I used it.Update September 14, 2012: I again used this pump to flush the tankless water heater for 45 minutes. I did not prime it with vegetable oil or anything else to see if the pump is truly "primeless" as claimed and it sucked up the vinegar and pushed it through the water heater heat exchanger without a problem. I later flushed the pump with clear water from a 5 gallon bucket. It emptied the bucket in under 1 minute, living up to its claim of being able to pump about 340 gallons per hour. It's a neat little pump, already has paid for itself!Update October 5, 2016: This pump continues to operate flawlessly to flush the Rinnai tankless heater.I bought this pump several years ago when I had to move a 60 gallon hot water heater out of my basement. The pump worked like a charm and emptied the tank in no time. I then put it in its box and threw it on a shelf in my garage. Fast forward 10 years. I'm living in another house and record rains cause my basement to flood. My shop vac fails, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Eureka! I went and grabbed my old transfer pump. It moved enough water to keep me ahead of the flood and saved 2/3 of my finished basement from water damage. That bad boy ran for 48hrs straight and did a great job. At one point it was having issues, but actually came with a pretty good troubleshooting guide and extra parts. The same flooding issue happened again 3 months later. This time the pump saved my entire downstairs. I went ahead and ordered another one and some more spare parts. This thing works and works greatI bought a Wayne PC2 110V portable transfer pump in 2010 from Amazon for $72 and change. It was delivered as shown in the photo that's still on the Amazon site today, specifically it's a chrome plated CAST BRONZE pump. It also came with a 5000psi rated heavy duty 6' suction hose with heavy brass end fittings, and the base plate of that pump has four rubber through-bolt isolation grommets that, when the base is bolted or screwed to anything, actually isolates vibration. Super small and handy for transferring water from 30 gallon barrels in my truck bed to the storage tank at our camp. It still works great, but I decided to get a second one so I could halve my water pumping time at the deer lease.I ordered the SAME model Wayne PC2 pump that still shows the SAME pix as 10 years ago, cost now $98 bucks and change.BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. The pump I received today is by comparison to the older one cheap second (or third) rate construction. The new PC2 pump is "coated aluminum", with no indication of even what the 'coating", although it appears to be 'chrome'. The suction hose provided is a 6' piece of cheap cra_ standard type thin garden hose with light duty non-magnetic end fittings that may or may not be brass, but do look like chrome plated. The base plate has 4 little rubber nubbin feet, with a hole drilled through the base plate between them on each side (total 2) so anything with this cheapo setup that's bolted or screwed to those two holes WILL get DIRECT vibration and attendant noise increase.The only thing 'improved' about the new model is it now claims to be a 390 gph pump at 5' suction using 2.3 amps, vs the 340 gph of the older one at 2 amps. The increased capacity does NOT compensate for the lower quality construction changes.I'll update in another 10 years, if the new one lasts that long!Read the instructions! Of course I attached the inlet hose, dumped it in water and plugged it in expecting self prime. And it made a lot of noise and nothing interesting happened. So then I read the instructions and you do indeed have to prime the pump with a very small amount of vegetable oil. Then it works like a charm. Good that there is a spare impeller and seals. Recommended.The pump arrived even quicker than I hoped. I have used it to empty my 150 gallon water tank on my boat (actually 4 times in one day) as I was sterilizing the water system. For some reason I had a problem getting my hose to attach to the pump's output. However, the short hose supplied with the pump attached with no problem. It didn't quite match the rated output, but did empty the tank in about 40 minutes. The pump had to pump the water up about 3-4 feet vertically. It did meet my needs and it did not overheat, running for 40 minutes then resting for about 1 hour, doing this 4 times in one day.Had to prime the pump several times. Already ate up one impeller. Very disappointed. I am in the middle of moving and as luck would have it I have lost the paperwork! So out the money as I can't return it. Nobodies fault but mine on the paperwork but back to the pump I was not happy at all. With being on the spare impeller (included) I believe the pump has only minutes of usable life left in it. Found replacement impellers but expensive. I will have to write this off as a poor choice.This little pump works like a charm, for small jobs anyways. Performed as I had expected, saved me lots of time and energy. Arrived ahead of schedule, which is always nice. Also a well made pump, only other thing I wish it had a on-off switch. I recommend this product and seller.la calidad salta a la vista, hay varios usos que le puedes darno es una bomba de uso rudo pero si soluciona esas emergencias de agua. ojo muy facil de operar
