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Old 11-22-2009, 03:29 AM
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christy make sure you get all of your fittings etc at sherrit in town. they have the best prices by far.
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Old 11-22-2009, 03:40 AM
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I went to Corix in Duncan, they have all their stuff accessible on shelves so if I don't know what a certain part I need is called, I don't have to act it out and draw a picture of it. I can just grab it out of a box
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sherrit will let you do that too. they have stores in both Nanaimo and Duncan.
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Old 11-22-2009, 03:47 AM
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Oh I haven't been in there in awhile, the last time they made me feel like an idiot so I haven't been back.
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Old 11-22-2009, 03:55 AM
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Christy how can you be posting when you have unglued pvc? I'd be working the hacksaw into the early morning if I had the chance. I love plumbing!
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LOL, its all ready to go. Two trips to the hardware store and guess what I forgot to buy

The gluing will commence tomorrow!

The tank does have about 2 inches of water in it if that counts for anything
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In a pinch you can use the purple primer/grey cement, but it's better if you use the clear primer and cement with spaflex. The clear has more elasticity which you want with the more elastic pipes. You can actually reef on a spaflex joint (that was done with the grey) hard enough and it will come apart. But the clear stuff is harder to find (usually from a spa pump store and not the usual HD/Rona/etc.)
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Oh that's a bummer haha. Yeah my wife refuses to go to HD with me for plumbing parts anymore because I sit there dry-fitting for an hour and changing my mind.

And yeah 2" counts for a lot. You gotta be pretty dang pumped.

I love winter for one reason: this community goes NUTS with new tanks.
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LOL, I spent about 20 mins at home hardware today trying to get from 1.5" slip to 1" threaded for a barb fitting. Man oh man, I love the challenge. I got it down to only 3 fittings!

Then of course I got home and changed my mind about how I wanted the plumbing so I had to go back for more PVC. Pain in the arse all those little 3" bits of PVC to join unions and valves to stuff, didn't account for that part.

I think I'll let the water run overnight. It will be like Christmas tomorrow morning! (unless of course the tank develops a leak which all our new ikea kitchen, piled in front of the tank, sucks up)
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I think I'll let the water run overnight. It will be like Christmas tomorrow morning! (unless of course the tank develops a leak which all our new ikea kitchen, piled in front of the tank, sucks up)

No no no. Don't think like that! There will be no leaks!
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