N/P Reducing Pellets ("Solid Vodka") - "Wow" ... 3 month update

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by kien

I can just picture all those crazed reefers aimlessly wandering hardware and craft stores looking for that perfect perforated material.. I get very strange looks when a salesperson asks me what I'm going to be using something for..

Your tellin me. You should have seen some looks at the building supply store when I was building my 7'l Powdercoating oven!
"I'm building an oven" "HUH?" "Ya a walk in Oven" "Huh?"

[kien]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Your tellin me. You should have seen some looks at the building supply store when I was building my 7'l Powdercoating oven!
"I'm building an oven" "HUH?" "Ya a walk in Oven" "Huh?"

LOL! Nice! Sometimes they want you to explain.. and at that point I just give up. Just help me find the damn part, it is not for you to understand!

[Coleus]

Help! My Phosban reactor keep leaking and i can't fit it into my sump. is it because i have too much flow? I am using 500ml with MJ1200. What the heck i am doing wrong? I really hand tight it.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Coleus

Help! My Phosban reactor keep leaking and i can't fit it into my sump. is it because i have too much flow? I am using 500ml with MJ1200. What the heck i am doing wrong? I really hand tight it.

Is it just one phosban reactor or do you have it daisy chained (hooked up) to a second phosban? Sometimes when people daisy chain them and put a restricting device like a valve at the outlet it causes back preassure in the phosban which will cause it to leak. Sometimes even clogged up second phosban will cause the first phosban to build up enough preasure to cleak. Are you using the sponges? Is it leaking out of the main head or out of one of the nozzles?

[Coleus]

It is leaking the main head. I cut the sponges into half like in your thread. I do not daisy chained to anything.

[burrows14]

if needed Ill ship you a replacment oring if you can fix it by monday

[Coleus]

Originally Posted by burrows14

if needed Ill ship you a replacment oring if you can fix it by monday

Thanks you for your kind offer.

My control valve is between the reactor and maxijet, I don't get leaking from hose, it is from the lid. I open it up and the o-ring is still there. I am going to try put some tape and see if it is still leaking tomorrow, Right now, I tilt it so that the leaking water going into my sump. I also notice by tilting it, i got my pellets bouncing nicely.

[Delphinus]

Is your flow control valve on the inlet side of the reactor or the outlet? If it's on the outlet side, switch it around to the inlet side (ie. between powerhead and reactor). This way the reactor can't pressure up. Also check to see all hoses are seated all the way in. Sometimes when that's not enough you can take some twist ties, or zap straps, and squeeze the hoses onto the fittings, or the rubber ends onto the hose inserts. Last but not least open up the reactor and check that the O-ring is still in there, and that there isn't a little bit of debris interfering with the seal.

It's not the flow, my carbon reactor leaks like crazy if I let it, and I run way slower flow through it. I had to do all of the above to make it stop leaking.

[burrows14]

agreed flow has nothing to do with the leaks