Magnet holders for power heads

[FishGuy5]

Anyone have any for sale, or DIY anything that has worked for you? I'm tired of the suction cup thing and still have 2 nice circulating pumps that are in great shape but would like to attach w/ magenets. Thanks for any info.

 

[funman1]

Just glue a Magfloat to a PH?

 

[kevin95695]

I've recently DIY'd a sweet magnet mount. MUCH more low profile than the name brand stuff. I don't trust suction cups alone. Gaussboys dot com has 60lb round epoxy covered jobs that are plenty strong. The 80lb versions are even overkill but I don't know your application. In my case I put a fresh coat of epoxy on the one I put in the tank cuz their coat scratched.

CAREFUL WHEN YOU PLACE ON TANK TO SLIDE MAGNET IN PLACE.

Shattered glass sucks.

 

[FishGuy5]

How did you attach the magnet to the powerhead? Silicone? What kind of epoxy did you put on as an extra coating? Saw the site......much more affordable.

 

[kevin95695]

I modded a 'Sure Flow' maxi-jet mount and just used a two-part epoxy from the hardware store to both seal magnet and join it to mount. You could superglue it to the powerhead, but I wanted to keep the swivel feature. Swivel. I also modded a Triton Aquatics Gulf Stream II mount. Since it's made of poly, I used ICgel. Worked fine. I need to go back and seal that magnet though.

 

[sumyungviet]

would that strong of a magnets mess with the functionablitly of the powerhead ?

 

[kevin95695]

So far, so good. But mine aren't mounted right on the pump. I thought about doing that, but wanted to control direction of flow...

Cruddy cell phone camera's all I got right now. After you place your PH, you slide the 2nd magnet up the glass on the outside.