While exhibiting at several large water well tradeshows, including the Florida Ground Water Association’s South Atlantic Well Drilling Jubilee, held in Myrtle Beach, and at the National Groundwater Convention and Tradeshow in Las Vegas, there were many requests for larger, heavy-duty well development tools; and plans for a Production Series began.  These developers were designed primarily for small production wells in 4-inch and 6-inch diameters. After a year of design and well testing, the 4-inch and 6-inch Qwater Well Developers are now available.

The Production Series Qwater Well Developers are reusable.  Both the 4-inch and 6-inch use the same tough ABS body and molded 1.5-inch steel female NPT pipe fitting for attaching to a weighted wireline or drill pipe.  Although the casing/screen wipers are also made of tough polyurethane, there are four wipers on each ABS body to ensure that the tool only needs to go in the borehole one time. The wipers can easily be replaced in the field with a regular slotted screwdriver to remove the stainless steel bolt and slide the spacers on and off the ABS body to replace or change wiper sizes (4-inch or 6-inch).

This extra Spacer Ring may be used in place of removing two wipers (either 4-inch or 6-inch) to convert the well development tool into a less aggressive two-wiper well developer.