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10-16-2010, 05:17 PM
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I hear ya. When I plumbed the 225 I picked up what I could from the local plumbing store and then had to order from J&L, BRS and O/A.
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10-16-2010, 05:53 PM
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you know tony. the whole gasket on the water side isn't nessasarly true, the gasket has to stay on the originaly intended side or you get leakage through the threds.. what I did when i put a bulkhead in backwards was leave the gasket on the outside then I put a smear of silicone on both sides of the glass and gasket. the silicone wasn't realy to seal it, but rather to prevent anything from getting lose. I did do a test befor the silicone was applied and gasket on the outside worked. if you look at it you'll see why. you have the two faces, the bulkhead flat, and the glass creating a perfect seal.. if you have the gasket on the nutside it gets twisted and deformed as you put the bulkhead in, and will leak a good chunk of the time as the threads are not sealed.
Steve
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 *everything said above is just my opinion, and may or may not reflect the views of this BBS, its Operators, and its Members. If cornered on any “opinion” I post I will totally deny having ever said this in a Court of Law…Unless I am the right one*Some strive to be perfect.... I just strive.
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10-17-2010, 12:13 AM
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I've never really liked threadnuts on the inside, they get caked up with feather dusters and calcium deposits and the whole bit and if/when you try to remove the bulkhead it's always harder than it has to be because of it. I'd rather keep the bulkhead with the threads on the outside but it might push the pipe out too far and push the skimmer out, 1" further out and that stupid effluent pipe won't reach unless I cut it and elongate it. Although I wonder if I could just make the skimmer stand a little higher and have the pipe clear under it and call it a day on that one.
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10-21-2010, 07:59 AM
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 Tinkered around with flow settings tonight, here's a bit of a preview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJXrlsf9U4 The sump return comes out 4 nozzles placed along the Calfo manifold. 3 on the right pointing left, 1 on the left pointing down. The idea I had here was to create a vertical gyre that sweeps towards the overflow. The two 6080's in the middle on Wavysea's sweeping left and right, at different speeds so that sometimes they're in sync and sometimes they're not. Two waveboxes on the left. Last but not least (and unfortunately not shown) there are 2 6100's positioned one left and pointing right and back, and the other one right and pointing left and forward - these are on the controller so alternating between 100% and 10% about once a minute. The back room is a terrible clusterfrack of wires and I have my work cut out for me the next day or two getting that all cleaned up. Next up I need to get the heater on there and the Ranco and then I'm dumping salt and working on rocks!
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-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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10-16-2010, 08:50 PM
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Silly old people the extra was for a regular bong... .and I do just what Steve does, little dab oh silicone on both sides to make sure it's snug in place. Levi
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10-16-2010, 09:39 PM
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Steve
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*everything said above is just my opinion, and may or may not reflect the views of this BBS, its Operators, and its Members. If cornered on any “opinion” I post I will totally deny having ever said this in a Court of Law…Unless I am the right one*Some strive to be perfect.... I just strive.
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