Articles by John Schmitt

Two months ago I wrote that in my next column I would write about something a bladder tank won’t do, in my opinion, and that is make up for a weak well or slow pump.

In my last column I wrote that, on occasion, painted steel bladder tanks will rust from the outside in.

As I said in my last column, after years, indeed, of trying to keep air in pressure tanks, our industry figured out that the air was being eaten by the water.

At the end of my last column I said that this chapter would deal with an important step forward; the bladder tank.

In my last column, I wrote about a revolutionary solution to air control in tanks — the air separator tank that came out in the 1950s.

In my last couple of columns I have reviewed the construction, sizes and unique fittings for typical hydro pneumatic tanks still made today, that were popular before about 1955.

In my first article on this subject, I talked about sizes of tanks, why they are needed in a hydropnuematic system and a variety of tappings that we don’t see in modern tanks.

Over the years I have written about many aspects of water well drilling and water systems.

If you’re a regular reader of this column and you notice the title, you probably think, “Old Schmitt has slipped a cog once again.” If you have never read this before, I want to assure you that is not true and there is a method to my seemingly goofy title.