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Old 03-29-2010, 05:18 PM
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Its time for plumping! The goals of plumbing was to have lots of unions and true union ball valves, to make changes and modifcation and the possiblity of needing to move the tank much easier.

When buying my parts I had to use serveral sources, at one of my sources I bought a 2 inch true union, when i went to pay the guy behind the counter said "ouch 2 inch true union" and at another store where I found 2 3/4inch true unions and a 1.5 inch true union, one of the guys said "it those expensive thingys"

The true unions are expensive, but were worth in in the end.

So heres the plumbing all done, after the pictures I'll speak of my difficulties with the plumbing.





As for the plumbing difficulties i was nearly pulling out my hair. I felt with this project I would do thing the "right way" by using the PVC Primer, I later felt this was a huge mistake.

As my plumbing was "done" I did a freshwater check of the closed loop. I found no less than 3 leaks, Annoyed I disconnected the unions, and repaired the leaks.

Second test showed my leaks were repaired, but now I had two new leaks, so again I toke things apart and repaired the leak again.

Third test I was leak proof. Now I mentioned that the PVC primer was a mistake, I just felt on the joints I did not use the primer on were stronger and didn't have any leaks. Since teh primer softens the PVC this made the joints less leak proof.
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