On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:15:49 +1200, Miche > wrote:

>In article >,
> Goomba > wrote:
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>> brooklyn1 wrote:
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>> >
>> > Only a fool would submerge the housing portion of any electric tool.
>>
>> lol, that's how I felt the first time I drained my hot tub using a sump
>> pump! I just couldn't see how I wasn't going to be electrocuted!
>
>You didn't because it was double insulated.

That plus more importantly the motor is on top (just like an immersion
blender) and doesnt get submerged, only the pump parts get wet, no
electricals get submerged.

As I said, there is no reason for hand tool housings to be made of
stainless or any metal. A sump pump is not a hand tool, their motor
housings are typically painted carbon steel... the home basement type
sump pump mostly just sits there dry and unused. Anyone whose
basement continuously floods really ought to invest in a marine grade
sump pump. And regardless, all sump pups should be tested
periodically, or just when the basement is filling with water the darn
thing will fail and get totally drowned... happens around here often
with spring thaws, that's when the fire dept. pumpers are called into
round the clock service.