!bumpkins woke up yesterd no fricking water pressure
well tank had another blowout
decided I might as well fix the old one while I was at it, a screw jammed in there with putty had held for years
but the new one was a 1/2 inch monster, putty wasn gonna work anymore
so I brought out the harbor freight welder and a portable battery
turns out its really hard to weld a pressure vessel when there's nowhere for the steam ur boiling to vent but the tiny hole ur trying to close.
and the fricking electrod keps shocking me standing in the mud
so it kept turning out like this. after 3 tries I said frick it it was leaking before 
so I boogered them up and they turned out like this @ 50psi
no worse than they've been leakign for a decade
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Sometimes you just have to get shit done. But is there a reason you didn't just shut off the pump and drain it real quick first?
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the pump was off or itd be spraying like fountain
and that was as drained as it wanted to get
I'd have to take off one of the big fittings to vent the air too lazy
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Does your setup just have a sump directly into your pressure tank? I guess I don't get where your excess pressure making it hard to plug was coming from.
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its like a tiny amount of pressure from the water boiling behind the weld , the air coming out was blowing out and keeping the hole from closing . the faucet thing on the bottom of the tank was open but it didn' t want to drain any more
idk its been leaking a little forever and now it still is
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I assume there's access? Vacuum the water out.
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