washing machine pump as a sump pump

i am an auctioneer and have alot of washing machines that i could take the pump out of, and yous as a pump to pump water back from my sump, but wat i am worried about is this poisoning and killing my fish, does any one have any ideas

 

Hi Dylan,

I fully respect that this may be an attractive option for you, but I would like to caution you against this in the strongest terms. Washing machine pumps have lots of unprotected metal, aluminium, zinc and copper, which erode into the water and even at low levels, cause huge toxicity problems, so under no circumstances can this be recommended, I am sorry.

Even the cheapest Chinese pumps take this into consideration, so you should rather buy aquarium pumps as they have plastic or stainless steel moving parts which will not corrode.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

If you take it apart and clean it, it should not be a problem the only thing is they don't last long when you run it permanent
like a sump is supose to run they overheat. I tryed it on one of my machines only lasted 8 hours

 

Jip sorry as @Dirk Bellstedt say it has metal in the pump area, didn't think about that, I used it on a cooling system
and it burned so even if you try ......... it's not worth it....................

 

thanks guys really helps

 

Rather take a front loader apart and use the drum as a braai,, stainless steel and gives off plenty of heat.

 

@ Donny - Man those are hard to come by these days - seems everybody wants one nowadays. Sorry for the jack...