Tylers ~300Gal System Build. *The epic failure*

[whatcaneyedo]

Cool. I already have that set of four 1" diamond wheels. I used to use them for fragging before I got my other saws.

[zum14]

Brick wall! No plumbing shops in town have slip fit bulkhead fittings. All threaded. Looks like an online order to delay me. Damn. Going to try for the glass for the overflow. That shouldnt be too bad. Haha.....shouldnt.

[whatcaneyedo]

Karen has two extra 1-1/2" bulkheads from J&L http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/pl...1+2%22%29.html that she doesnt need and will probably sell. If you want her contact information I can find it for you. While you're ordering bulkheads you might want to grab some gate valves if you're going to need any of those... as no one in town sells them either. I think you can at least get true union ball valves at Andrew Sherrit. If you think I might have any plumbing bits leftover that you could use you're welcome to come scavenge through my extras. Actually I'm probably going to bring most of those up to Allans if he will take them for his store.

[whatcaneyedo]

I was just visiting Allan to see how his new project is coming along and he has a small selection of bulkheads including 1".

[zum14]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I was just visiting Allan to see how his new project is coming along and he has a small selection of bulkheads including 1".

Thanks. Ill have to email him. Do you happen to know if either karens or allans are threaded on the inside? There are lots in town at corestock or andrew sherrit but all they have is inside threaded. I need inside slip so I can remove the spray bars and clean/replace them as they get algaed up. They suggested adapters but if I go that route the spray bars will be 4" off the bottom. Ill probably end up ordering them from bulkreefsupply as they have the mesh for the top I want to build and have valves and such as well (thanks for that reminder, there really is nothing in this town for that stuff. Its fun to watch people look at you funny when you tell them what your building) The other thing is in town they will be like 10-15$ each bulkhead too vs 5$ on brs.

[whatcaneyedo]

Karen's two are the ones shown in the link that I posted and you'll have to ask Allan what he has because I didn't see them all.

[zum14]

Update. So I got some glass for my euro bracing and coast to coast. I now know why people in prince don't build tanks. It was $150 for the glass. Overflow on bottom and euro on top.





So I started to clean the top of the tank with the plastic trim off and i found something interesting. Can anyone else see the problem???





Yaa.... not so impressed. Good thing its not the show tank. He said it was a hagen. I don't know. He didn't look like he had the ability to do this to the tank and he said it held water. Good thing its in a basement and I WILL be water testing first now with a little more discomfort. But what am I going to do now. Not much. I need to get this tank set up as were renoing the room my current tank is in and its holding up work. No kitchen and dirty reno'd house makes wife something something....... So pressed on with work. Got the diamond coated burrs and cleaned up the overflows. No sharp edges and corners now. (please dont mind the sharpie marks. not sure what happend there. too many before starting that job.)



And then glued up the overflow box.






I realized the glass braces are probably overkill but I dont do too many things underkill so in they went. They were only like $10 in the end. Plan is for eurobracing to be glued in tomorrow and seal up the overflow box. Then its just a matter of waiting on the bulkheads. No one seems to use full inside slip bulkheads, or even a slip on the tank side. Oh well. Im getting used to things going sideways on this project.

[kien]

Coming along nicely! Your plumbing is quite sophisticated!