If you are looking for a hand water pump for use in deep well you have two choices, one is buy the old fashioned pitcher pump sometimes called industrial hand pump or you can have the new version which is the piston hand pump. Some people say that piston hand pump will replace the pitcher pump but as of now many people are still looking for the old style hand pump. Maybe because they are still not aware of the new one or maybe they just want a replacement for their broken pitcher pump and they don’t want to modify the existing mountings. Pitcher pump usually made of heavy duty cast iron which is already proven to last for many years and the first thing wears are the gaskets inside it. Replacing it with new gasket kit and it will be good as new again.
There are many brands competing for these types of pumps, one famous brand in Asian countries is the Jet-O-Matic or JetMatic. It’s so popular such that people call these water well hand pump as JetMatic when they are trying to purchase one. But now there’s a new type of hand pump made for deep well water extraction and it’s called the piston hand pump. Actually they are very similar to pitcher pumps the main difference is the overall body size. It also capable of pumping large volume of water and uses a long lever arm to pump water. The secret lies in the material used. It uses a stainless steel body which is very sleek with thin walls but with the same durability as the thick cast iron. Unlike iron that rust, stainless steel don’t, which makes it a lot safer if you are planning to use it for drinking water.
