Ben, I am not using the sand filter per your instructions several posts ago just so you know. It seems your last post suggested I was using the sand filter? I am using the cart only.

If your post is right then want me to use DE in the cart? I threw a cup in just for that test as I stated. Like I said no DE came out the return. And that was on hi speed pump.

I could take macro pics of the filter but tell me of what part of the filter?

I could run the sand filter by itself if you think that's better? I hook up the sand after the cart and just remove the cart from the housing. Or I had them both running in series at one time.

Yeah Ben I have been unemployed since 2009. Unemployment ran out and wife works now. I am a stay home dad with the 3 kids and 1 grand kid. My youngest is 4 and my oldest is 19. Heck I am only 46. We are just making ends meet with no extras.

So I don't have two nickles to rub together.

Anyway bleach and my time is cheap though, plus I have a small pool.

Yes I have a good vac, pole, and hose. I vac almost every night... Wait are you going to have me floc?????????? I heard bad stuff about that. Plus I am on a well, so to vac to waste with the sand filter I am sure I will need to fill my pool a lot. If I bypass my softner I am sure I will get iron issues. I will have to vac and fill a little at a time if that's what you want me to do.

OK I will stop talking....LOL

Mike NJ