On May 16, 8:53 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
I just bought a house, and for the outside, it has irrigation water. There
are several large Rainbird sprinklers, about the size of a coffee can set
into the ground.. They pop up, spray one direction, then go splut, splut,
splut, and go the other way. They seem not to be tripping when they get to
the end of their range, and not returning.

Are these things rebuildable? Are they worth it to rebuild? I have others
that just sends up a popup that is about two inches in diameter, and eight
inches tall, and the whole things makes circles, or parts of circles,
depending on how they're set. They are for the most part, working okay, but
a couple seem to need attention. Are these like other sprinklers where you
just take them off, take them apart, and watch for little rocks and crud
that are making them not work?

Help appreciated.

Steve

Steve-

Those Rainbirds are pretty good units....I had a house using the Maxi-
PAW ones (which I believe you have)

Sometimes they would fail to trip to "return", usaually dirt or grass
growing in the can or hard water deposits.

There is a removeable "lock pin" in the cover that allows access.
Take it out to remove cover & shop vac out any crap in the "can".

The sprinklers can be tested without the cover on. I would fool
around with them.......cleaning them & about 50% of the time they
would work again. If I couldn't get them to operate reliably I'd
replace them with the same type unit.

They're not cheap but they last pretty good so I was happy. I was in
the house 14 years & never replaced any more than once.....I did keep
track of which ones had been cleaned or replaced so if cleaned ones
acted up again they got replaced.

The internal spring is replaceable but I never tried that

Here's a short installation manual for them

http://www.rainbird.com/pdf/diy/man_AG5_Maxipaw.pdf

Trouble shooting manula

http://www.rainbird.com/pdf/diy/Impa...otingGuide.pdf


cheers
Bob