Saboral
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1. Wakeup and you've missed your first class
2. Get a call from your friend saying your pumps return fitting to the tank bulkhead has EXPLODED!
3. Yet to be determined
I get a call this morning from my roommate Anthony (fazio92) saying that an old 3/4 slip x thread fitting (from 1990 when the tank was made) has just exploded and my Iwaki 70 pump had just thrown 5 gallons of the water on my bedroom carpet. Awesome. I get back to find it wasn't really horrible, but that the fitting had fractured right along the threads the barb fitting had been tefloned into. Hoping the bulkhead was threaded and that the fitting was merely a riser I attempt to loosen it. To my dismay it appears I am doing nothing but loosing the bulkhead which begins to start dripping water at which point I IMMEADIATELY tighten that back up. After failing to remove the slip on part of the coupling and breaking off what was left of it I capped the return pipe in my tank and used rubber insulating tape very tightly stretched to seal the broken fitting. I now have a up and over return on the back of the tank and in all honesty I think it works a little better.
Good news though it looks as though I will get the house in Blacksburg I have been wanting and will be able to put my fish tank on the first floor (with some quick structural supports in the basement) and I will be able to run the sump downstairs hopefully near a storm drain where there will be no damage if something like this happens again. If I get in the house I will be looking at a new 120-200 gallon starphire front glassed tank, which I may build myself. (My uncle at home is a glass company owner)
If I were to design a 220gallon with a front starphire pane what thicknesses am I looking at in the glass for pressure resistance? 1/2" I will have the bottom pre-drilled and tempered.
2. Get a call from your friend saying your pumps return fitting to the tank bulkhead has EXPLODED!
3. Yet to be determined
I get a call this morning from my roommate Anthony (fazio92) saying that an old 3/4 slip x thread fitting (from 1990 when the tank was made) has just exploded and my Iwaki 70 pump had just thrown 5 gallons of the water on my bedroom carpet. Awesome. I get back to find it wasn't really horrible, but that the fitting had fractured right along the threads the barb fitting had been tefloned into. Hoping the bulkhead was threaded and that the fitting was merely a riser I attempt to loosen it. To my dismay it appears I am doing nothing but loosing the bulkhead which begins to start dripping water at which point I IMMEADIATELY tighten that back up. After failing to remove the slip on part of the coupling and breaking off what was left of it I capped the return pipe in my tank and used rubber insulating tape very tightly stretched to seal the broken fitting. I now have a up and over return on the back of the tank and in all honesty I think it works a little better.
Good news though it looks as though I will get the house in Blacksburg I have been wanting and will be able to put my fish tank on the first floor (with some quick structural supports in the basement) and I will be able to run the sump downstairs hopefully near a storm drain where there will be no damage if something like this happens again. If I get in the house I will be looking at a new 120-200 gallon starphire front glassed tank, which I may build myself. (My uncle at home is a glass company owner)
If I were to design a 220gallon with a front starphire pane what thicknesses am I looking at in the glass for pressure resistance? 1/2" I will have the bottom pre-drilled and tempered.
