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lockrookie 01-22-2013 03:57 AM

Can you not use bulkheads that are threaded instead if slip so you can remove them?

nrosdal 01-22-2013 04:49 AM

Can you just use all threaded fittings from the bulkhead on so you can unscrew starting at the end an work your way back to the bulkhead from there?

mseepman 01-22-2013 03:30 PM

Okay...thank you for the ideas. I don't know if I can incorporate them without the return lines really dropping into the viewable space in the tank badly. I will try to dry fit some different options and see if any can replace the glueing.

gridley 01-22-2013 03:35 PM

I'm afraid that I have no advice or suggestions to offer - just my empathy. I'd rather work with live electrical current than plumbing. Electrical either works or doesn't work - plumbing works . . . then leaks. I had to call my plumber brother in law to fix my multiple leaks. I hope that all goes well.

lastlight 01-22-2013 03:37 PM

I just slip fit my 90s in. I applied pvc primer to the short piece of pipe in the 90 and the outlet of my manifold. this created the perfect amount of friction to hold them in tight.

gregzz4 01-22-2013 08:13 PM

For your leaky unions, have you tried silicone lube on the o-rings ?

For your enductors;
Are you going to use 3/4" enductors on 1" pipe ?
If so, what about 90s threaded on both ends
If your eurobrace is wide enough, you unscrew the enductors, then spin out the 90s
You'd need a spig x fipt reducer bushing and a close nipple for each fipt x fipt 90

If not, all that comes to mind is adding 4 more unions.
One on each side of the Ts and 90s that sit on top of your eurobrace.
It'll cost you some money to experiment with it, but a dry fit will show if you can wiggle them out or not with the outflow 90s in place

Lance 01-22-2013 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 785301)
I just slip fit my 90s in. I applied pvc primer to the short piece of pipe in the 90 and the outlet of my manifold. this created the perfect amount of friction to hold them in tight.


Absolutely! What I did.

gregzz4 01-23-2013 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 785301)
I just slip fit my 90s in. I applied pvc primer to the short piece of pipe in the 90 and the outlet of my manifold. this created the perfect amount of friction to hold them in tight.

Looks like this is a good solution
Quick and dirty and no more buying and chopping

mseepman 01-23-2013 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 785301)
I just slip fit my 90s in. I applied pvc primer to the short piece of pipe in the 90 and the outlet of my manifold. this created the perfect amount of friction to hold them in tight.


So if I get this right...you just used primer? That made it gummy enough to hold tight...but loose enough that if you needed to break it, you could.

If this works....I will be dancing a jig tonight!!!

mseepman 01-28-2013 05:34 AM

I thought I should do a quick update on the tank thread.

I've been desperately trying to prep my old house as a rental....meaning that the work on the tank has suffered...but some things have gotten done.

Water in the storage tanks, prepping to be transfered over to my sump and up into the display.
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/r...1-27220700.jpg

The plumbing from my overflow, just dry fitted so far.
http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/r...1-27220648.jpg


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