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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

You should call someone who handles submersible pumps and ask the cost of 
repair, and if you decide against it, offer it to the guy.  He could 
probably make back his labor reselling it, and in these hard times, it would 
do someone some good.  That said, I am a little puzzled.  Yes, submersible 
pumps are sealed units, and I can't imagine mice getting inside one.  If you 
are talking about the wire coming out of the pump, that would have to be 
replaced.  Holes and splices in such wires are a problem, but not an 
insurmountable one.  The entire length of wire could be replaced.  We did 
that back 'way when, and then the short turned out NOT to be in the well.  I 
could have killed the pump guy, who'd sat there with his test unit and said 
there was a dead short in the well.  Many hours of work later, done by our 
landlord's brother and my husband, NOT the pump man at his extravagant 
rates, the pump still wouldn't run.  My husband wound up digging the buried 
line from the pumphouse, and replacing that too, and then the pump ran.  I'd 
like to know if they guy was trying to make work for himself, if he'd have 
charged for replacing the wire in the well, then for saying, oops that must 
not be it, and digging the underground line too.  Usually plumbers are busy 
people, but I've heard stories... including some from a plumber.  Donna