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Old 11-04-2009, 03:45 AM
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Doing this through one bulkhead would be a bad idea. The reason for the redundancy is to avoid potential disaster. For example, my BeanAnimal overflow saved my a$$ the other day: I had several nassarius snails apparently climb into my overflow and die in the main siphon pipe. If I had one bulkhead and they managed to get lodged in the pipe somewhere at a point either just before the bulkhead (presumably where the network of siphons and emergency drains converge to enter a single bulkhead in your proposed one-bulkhead suggestion) or in the pipe on the other side of the bulkhead the redundancy of the extra overflows would have been moot and I would have had a wet floor.
I think you have misunderstood exactly what I mean, I have no intention of running all the pipes into one drain, all feeds go independently to the sump, I think I know how to keep the floor dry, Beans super safe system was designed for precisely that reason, although a Herbie is good, the extra fail safe is enough to keep his marriage from coming to a wet end.
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