Dealing with a pump rental company that has the expertise and capability to undertake a complete pump overhaul proved to be a major advantage for a customer in the manufacturing sector recently.

Having had previous pump rental experience with IPR, this customer requested urgent assistance when the pump it was using for water transfer at its operation became problematic.

“Not only were we able to provide a rapid pump dewatering rental solution to this customer,” says Henru Strydom operations manager at IPR, “we were also able to undertake the complete overhaul of the pump ensuring it was back in operation within a relatively short period of time.”

Years of operation transferring water from one dam to another had taken it toll on the pump that was in use at the customer facility, and such is its manufacturing operation that it could not be without a dewatering pump. IPR’s team were contacted for a rental pump set and were able to deliver more than just that to its customer.

Strydom says that the damaged pump was removed from site and replaced with a rental unit. On further inspection at the company’s comprehensively equipped facility, the IPR team found that the damage was both mechanical and electrical, and that a complete rebuild of the pump set would be essential to ensure reliable operation going forward.

The pump set was completely stripped, and individual components assessed prior to the final decision on what work would need to be done. The final overhaul saw all bearings replaced due to excessive wear and a new engine wiring harness replace the old one which was damaged after short-circuiting. Other damaged components replaced including the control panel.

Following this work, the pump set components were spray painted in IPR’s in-house spray booth, and then the pump was subjected to final quality control inspections prior to it being tested in the company’s test tank. “Doing this gives our customer full assurance that the rebuilt pump set is capable of meetings its rated flow of 90 litres per second at a maximum head of 25 metres,” Strydom says.

This is not the first full pump rebuild that IPR has done, and Strydom explains that having an in-depth understanding of pump applications and operations is an advantage especially when overhauling pump sets. “The level of trust that many of our customers have in IPR has seen this sector of our business expand exponentially and we anticipate that it will consider doing so.”