Vacuum pumps are hidden treasures in the world of fluid transfer. They serve the same purpose as your internal organs. They work continuously with plodding reliability outside our conscious control even as we are unaware of their toil. But, break down, the vacuum pump stops working. Some vacuum pump repair must be done.

The simplest and most efficient course of action would be to buy a new pump when the old one breaks down. While simple and convenient, buying a new pump is the most high-priced solution. Since we all want to optimize our resources, we would rather a less pricey option than replacement. The next most reasonable option would be to purchase new parts. By replacing worn out parts with new replacement parts, you can rejuvenate your pump, making it nearly as good as new and back on the internet moving fluid swiftly. However, purchasing new parts is still not the optimal way to get your vital equipment back into operation. A better option is to buy used parts. This option might seem counter-intuitive. Why replace worn out parts with more worn out parts? The solution is that the used parts have been rebuilt. You might be leery of using used parts—won’t they wear out and maybe even cause more damage to the pump? The solution is that, when a part is rebuilt, the worn components are removed and replaced, so that the rebuilt part consists of unworn and new components. The rebuilt part is then as good as new. Installed in the nonworking pump, these rebuilt parts put it back into use in almost-new condition.

There’s an alternate side to the use of rebuilt parts. Consider the environmental consequences of new replacement parts versus rebuilt replacement parts. If a worn out part is taken from a pump and replaced with a new part, what’s the fate of the old part? It is discarded. It lands in the landfill. This dumps perfectly good materials into a mountain where it will remain out of use until some time in the future when landfills are mined. This will be many years from now. The landfill is ecological problem number one. Ecological problem number two has to do with the energy needed to obtain and process new materials into a new replacement part. The raw ore must be mined, smelted, and formed. Plastic is made from petroleum products which need to be pumped, refined, and manufactured. And all of this work uses energy and creates pollution. Whether global warming is a reality or the figment of the scare-mongers’ imagination, we need concern ourselves with the trash we’re leaving behind us. The energy needed to create new parts from scratch is so much greater than that needed to manufacture just the components that have worn out.

So the intelligent conclusion is that the best solution for getting your vital pumps back into operation at the lowest cost, in terms of buy price and environmental impact, it to replace worn out pump parts with high-quality rebuilt parts rather than new parts.

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