Can someone lend me a dremel? Someone near Oak Park or Lisle?

[ostrow]

Got a wavebox (thanks Larry!). MAY need to modify the teeth on my overflow. If so, need dremel and bits. Never used one before and not sure I need it anyway. Can I borrow on the off chance that I need it when I install the box?

email joel@ostrows.us

 

[whiirly]

I did not need to modify my tank for the wave box

 

[ostrow]

My water level kisses the bottom of the glass center brace on my Oceanic. Almost at the top of the overflow box. I'm assuming I need an inch clearance. How else to lower the level?

 

[whiirly]

do you have mega overflows?
if so I pushed the drain tubes all the way down

 

[mhurley]

Joel,

My water level is constantly touching the top of my braces waving back and forth. My overflow is maxed out as well and the only way to fix it is to cut teeth out of the overflow...but it's never been a problem for me. With a smaller tank like yours (compared to mine), you may have to lower the water level or else risk spalshing over the top with the Wavebox. The other option is to dial back the power of the Wavebox a bit.

 

[ostrow]

MEGAs yes.

Mike: I could dial down the pump. That will lower a little bit.

Joe: I think my dursos are pretty far down and lowering them will, I think, only lower the water level in the overflow boxes.

Mike I was trying to call you about that, as you may have guessed if you saw me in caller id!

Roger says water touching center brace is irrelevant as water level in center is constant, only sides go up and down which makes sense. It is not a rolling wave like the ocean but a rocking.

Cut teeth out, or widen teeth, or cut them lower. Differing opinions.

 

[mhurley]

I agree with Roger, which is why my system works ok. My center is always touching, overflow it maxed, the sides ebb and flow.

I've been jammed with work lately and not paying attention to the home phone line locked in my office. If there's no voice mail, I don't scroll through the caller ID. Sorry I missed ya.

 

[ostrow]

Yeah but I have maybe 1/2 maybe 3/4 inches on the sides and I'm keeping one of the MJ Stream Swirls going so I need more clearance. And I don't want the wave going higher than the top of the overflow box either ... seems to me that'd be noisy. But maybe a slight closing of the valve on the return will lower the water a bit and make it work without messing with the slats.

May need a dremel though.

If I buy one, which should I get? There are cheepo battery ones, or ones with cords. Not sure if they come with the attachment I need either. grrr...

 

[mhurley]

DON'T get the battery ones. That's what I have and I hate it, battery burns fast...too cheap to go buy the corded one or the corded attachment. It will have the basics you need and does have a cutting wheel with it.

 

[ostrow]

k

I'm hoping though I won't need it. I don't mind cutting back the return a bit if it will make things work, and I'm going to keep one MJ Stream on a swirl that puts out like 1600gph, and take the ohter one off, mount it on the Tunze rails on the back or overflow box, and put the prop on there that gives 2500-3000gph. That outta blow **** around pretty good I think. Who cares then if I'm cutting back the Hammerhead by 15% or so?

 

[ostrow]

One ? now that I think of it:

Why do I want the durso all the way down? Don't I want it all the way up? Let more water into the overflow box? Lowers it in the tank? NO? What am I missing here?

Mike you say your overflow is maxed out. ... just how do we determine this? I assume mine is but...

 

[taino64]

Joel,
I'm at Franklin Park. I have a Dremel and bits if you need to use it . Pm me for address.

 

[canar]

I work in OakBrook Ostrow if you let me know I can bring mine in with me one day.

Ted

 

[mhurley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8187917#post8187917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ostrow
Mike you say your overflow is maxed out. ... just how do we determine this? I assume mine is but...

My water is up against the top of the brace, so it's at the top of the teeth...Can't squeeze more water through those teeth unless I pressurize my tank and blast it through the overflow If I had a wider gap or less teeth, I suspect my water level would be lower since more water could get through there.