My experience is mostly with agricultural pumps, but am I wrong to think that this doesn't look like a pump that's been recently running constantly?
Bossman.. as was mentioned the pumps on the boilers run 24/7 even this both boilers do not.
That is the stainless impeller on the pump assembly that has to date, not caused problems
Just talking here, but the stainless impeller is holding up better than the bronze one, which was destroyed
Chicken or the egg scenario but it seems likely cavitation first caused bronze impeller failure which then accelerated pipe failure downstream, make sense?
Conversely the stainless impeller is holding up better against what is most likely the same cavitation issues therefore not multiplying the effects downstream
Obviously some assumptions being made there but just a thought