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Old 02-02-2014, 11:38 PM
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Here are the pictures of the light hanger. As I say its not finished yet I just wanted it attached and what not so I could get water in the tank. Still have to shorten the bolts and clean it up a little.





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Old 02-03-2014, 01:49 PM
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Thanks wretch. I was curious if the aluminium bar had been bent at 90 degrees or if you had 2 pieces jointed together to make a 90 degree elbow.

That hanger looks really slick. If you have the equipment, you could always take a cutoff wheel to the tops of the bolts holding the fixture to your aluminium hanger and cut them off just above the fastening nuts. A hacksaw would work equally well but would just take a bit more elbow grease to get the job done.
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Old 02-04-2014, 01:36 AM
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Cutting with a cut off wheel would only take a min total for them all.
If you bring it over, I could do it in nothing flat.
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Old 02-04-2014, 05:10 PM
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Cutting with a cut off wheel would only take a min total for them all.
If you bring it over, I could do it in nothing flat.
Pm me
Thanks for the offer I want to change the nuts out then I will cut the excess bolt off. I just haven't got there yet.
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Old 02-04-2014, 05:48 PM
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Well the leak test was going well until I noticed the tiniest of leaks just above my gate valve. When I tried to tighten it up I twisted the bulkhead and made things much worse.

Sump filled great. Holds all the back flow of water from the display tank plus the overflow is drained as well.



Display tank with empty overflow due to leaking bulkhead.



Damn bulkhead leak. I can't access it at the moment without draining the tank. I don't know if I should drain the tank or try and cut a bigger hole on the bottom of the stand so I can access the nut without draining.



PITA either way I guess.
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Old 02-04-2014, 06:58 PM
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Default acorn nuts....

Cutting the bolts off and using acorn nuts will finish them off nicely.
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Old 02-04-2014, 08:10 PM
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Well I managed to cut an ugly hole around my bulkheads and get them tightened up. Looks ugly as sin but it will work. I got some more pvc to move my gate valve down it was really tight to the back of the stand at its current height.




Damn dremmel left a lot to be desired but it worked in a tight space.
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