MY Prizm Pro kicks butt
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Joshua1023
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Hey salty. Sorry for the delay. My IP provider took a crap on me. Anyway I'm back up and running now. I started the cuts on the blades w/ a pair of diagonal pliers and slowly worked the cuts in 1/8" at a time. I used a utility knife for the last 1/4". Good luck.
Joshua1023
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I never had that happen to me. I've never even heard of anyone w/ that problem. That leads me to believe that it is a problem isolated to your particular skimmer. I know I had to disconect the air tube when I did my mods and noticed that it is just 1/4" air tubing. Perhaps you have a pin hole in yours that is allowing a minute amount of water in that is evaporating quickly because of the air rushing past it. Take out the tube and inspect. Just an educated guess though.
Joshua1023
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I don't know the name of the scrubby pad. I will say this --I bought it at Wal-Mart for 96cents. It is a coarse scrub pad for cleaning floors and large areas. It has a plastic handle on it and measure 4x6 inches. The air valve is the standard air valve you can pick up at any pet store for 50cents or Wal-Mart if you're already there. Its for airline tubing from air pumps for air stones and such. You'll have to filet the scrub pad down to the desired width. Also I cut a hole in the center of a larger piece than I needed. I attached the large piece to the impeller, and then used a sharp utility knife to trim the excess. It makes for a nicer result.
Mr Bojangles
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well I think that I am gana try this on my wife's this weekend, I will take pics and let you know how it works
Joshua1023
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Keep us posted MR. Bojangles. I love that name by the way.
Joshua1023
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The hardware store won't have them. Check your lfs where the air tubing is. Alot of times they are mixed in w/ a pack of other air fittings and are hanging on the wall. If all else fails ask someone.
OK I found the stuff and did the mods. So far it seem to be producing a little more bubbles and its not foaming yet could be just cause I cleaned it so I'll let it run for a week and see how it dose, however, I did not cut the blades down my impellar is different than your and everything fit in just fine and is running fine. I also added the airvalve but I dont think it is nessesary it still sounds about the same on mine. I think these mods might only be for the pro model and not the deluxe. Well we'll see, I'll write back in a few days with a update.
Joshua1023
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My main concern w/ the Prizm pro was the air adjustment. If I had it to do over again I would have done just the air valve mod first and saw what difference it made before I did the mesh mod. Like I said w/ the mesh mod it pulls more air than the pump can handle and has to be choked back pretty far. I think the only bonus of the mesh mod on this is that it may chop the bubbles up finer than the standard venturi type that is stock on these.
Well I have not had to mess with the airvale its wide open. I also had to redo the mesh mod because I didnt tie it down good enough and it came lose and started to make noise, however since I redid it it is foaming and foaming about 3 times more with a dry foam so far so good I also shaved the blades down a very little bit. I do like it so far, it seems to improve the performance by more than double. In the next week I'll update with the end result. My only concern is the mesh mod coming loose again. I tied four knots each and tied about 8 of the blades. If it continuse like this I would recomend it to everybody with a prizim. Thank for the info for this mod.
Joshua1023
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Hey Salty, if you have another problem try zip tying it to the impeller w/ the smallest zip ties you can find and just make sure the locking mechanism won't wack anything while its running.
