BeanAnimal
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Use your vacuum pump to make a nice veneer press for gluing stuff up.
Bean
Use your vacuum pump to make a nice veneer press for gluing stuff up.
Bean
Hydraulic Plunger water movement.
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stugray
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I like the auger idea if it is cheap & simple, but like most things that are worth doing.... it's not always that easy.
I read through this entire post, and I might have figured out the perfect KISS solution.
How about a vertical, large diameter PVC pipe full of water, capped at both ends, & connected to the tank at the top & bottom through plumbing & bulkheads.
Now, all we need to do is move something ( a plug ), up & down inside this vertical tube, With the minimum number of moving parts. The diagram has opposing units on each end of a tank, but one would still work.
Imagine a heavy pumpkin that could rise & fall depending on it's bouyancy...
With a chunk of ballast, and a flotation chamber ( piece of PVC with endcaps ), I bet I could rig an air pump to raise & lower the plug in the riser tube.
It just needs to be heavy, and have either valves for letting air in & out our a more elegant way of allowing the air out when the plug reaches the top ( surface tension.... ? ).
Stu
I like the auger idea if it is cheap & simple, but like most things that are worth doing.... it's not always that easy.
I read through this entire post, and I might have figured out the perfect KISS solution.
How about a vertical, large diameter PVC pipe full of water, capped at both ends, & connected to the tank at the top & bottom through plumbing & bulkheads.
Now, all we need to do is move something ( a plug ), up & down inside this vertical tube, With the minimum number of moving parts. The diagram has opposing units on each end of a tank, but one would still work.
Imagine a heavy pumpkin that could rise & fall depending on it's bouyancy...
With a chunk of ballast, and a flotation chamber ( piece of PVC with endcaps ), I bet I could rig an air pump to raise & lower the plug in the riser tube.
It just needs to be heavy, and have either valves for letting air in & out our a more elegant way of allowing the air out when the plug reaches the top ( surface tension.... ? ).
Stu
zapata41
In Memoriam
looks like it would work great, but like the problem that stopped our auger idea, was how do you tie in 6" pvc into the tank without making it look horrible. and, 6" bulkheads cost way too much to experiemnt with. so that is the real reason that this project has haulted.
Tim
Tim
BeanAnimal
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Plywood sides would be the way to go. 4" PVC could be used with closet flanges as the mounts. Aquatic eco sells all kinds of mesh that could be used as a guard. The guard would be 6" or more inside the tubes so that they didn't look so bad. The holes themselves could be routed slots with a decent surface area (with smaller mesh guards furhter inside out of sight.
6" flanges could also be made rather easily.
If the tank was acrylic this would be doable as well with acrylic tubing and solvent welds.
Bean
6" flanges could also be made rather easily.
If the tank was acrylic this would be doable as well with acrylic tubing and solvent welds.
Bean
BeanAnimal
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I guess the best you could do would be to put 6" elbows on sides and put the wave maker under the stand. The screens could be at the bottom where the mechanics are, but stuff could then find it's way down into the bottom of the tube.
Next best thing would be to wrap them around to the back. Screens in back out of site. You would have 2 or 4 nice acrylic tubes (elbows on the sides of the tank). No screens visible would allow livestock to use the tubes as part of their habitat.
Bean
Next best thing would be to wrap them around to the back. Screens in back out of site. You would have 2 or 4 nice acrylic tubes (elbows on the sides of the tank). No screens visible would allow livestock to use the tubes as part of their habitat.
Bean
BeanAnimal
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If you don't like the idea of the tank with ears... then you could build you hood to cover the sides of the tank and ears also. Kinda like an inwall outa the wall.
MarkS
Premium Member
Hmmmm.......
Hmmmm.......
What could we do with this??
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=833455
Hmmmm.......
What could we do with this??
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=833455
douggiestyle
New member
i have a pump using the same design for a closed loop. bosch made it. quiet bugger.
douggiestyle
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i like the boat motor idea
center is only a brace
blue is something like egg crate
forward
pause
reverse
pause
forward
once you get the water moving it in a whirlpool faction, it will continue to do so for a bit of time.
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