280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

I guess it's still something of a work in progress.

It, .. um .. didn't quite go as optimally as it could have tonight. Remember how I said I had spilled PVC primer and was worried what the styrofoam looked like? It turns out it was pretty nasty. So it had to be replaced. Ran over to HD, picked up a piece of new foam and so we rotated it 90 degrees to get the old one off. When rocking it back onto the new foam, the skimmer feed pipe valve handle thing hit the ground and poof, the front panel was done for.

So .. yeah Brett you totally called it, the bulkheads were gonna be the end of the sump as it was.

Jay's going to cut a new piece, I think we'll step it up to 10mm since the front still needs to be drilled for the sump return pump ... I might as well leave the skimmer feed hole undrilled and figure out a different way - yet again - of feeding the skimmer. I'm sort of back to going to an overflow fed system but maybe T'd off somehow so it is only a partial diversion into the skimmer.

So, given that this "good deal" of a sump I originally bought is turning somewhat into the six-million-dollar man .. er, I mean sump ... ,,,, at least it should emerge from all of this as better, stronger, faster.

Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

I'm totally naming my sump Steve from now on.