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Plate 2. Built-up lead pump.
Source. Author's conceptual drawing of built-up lead pump.
pipes and decorative fittings, began producing cast-lead pumps. Country plumbers with improving skills, however, were soon able to manufacture their own pumps locally from lead sheet and pipe. They used soft soldered joints that were known in the plumbing trade as wiped joints.2 A typical plumber-made lead lift pump is depicted in plate 2. The major parts are the iron handle and piston rod (A), pump barrel about 2 feet, 6 inches (76 cm) long (B), supporting flanges about 9 inches (23 cm)