coral_reefer_25
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Hey guys....I have a Turboflotor 1000 (in sump model). It's been working great up until the latter part of last week.
Normally, the column is so filled with bubbles that you can't see through the reaction chamber....just looks like a rolling cloud inside of it. Toward the latter part of last week it stopped producing the thick column of bubbles inside the reaction chamber. You can actually see through the chamber...although there is still a good deal of bubbles in there...but there's probably about 80% fewer bubbles inside the chamber than when it is working properly.
Sunday, I took the skimmer out and cleaned it...and the pump. I put it back in the sump and voila! It worked! I tossed it up to the fact that it was dirty and the pump needed to be cleaned out.
Now, today it is doing the same thing it was doing last week.
I'm not very familiar with the Ocean Runner 2700 pump that's running the skimmer, but when I was disassembling it to clean it, the white shaft came out, but the magnet/needlewheel impellar didn't. I tried pulling it out with my fingers, but couldn't get a good enough grip on it, otherwise I would have cleaned it off too. Anyway, I tested the pump before I reassembled everything and it seemed to work great.
Is the shaft supposed to be one piece with the magnet /needlewheel impellar attached?
Normally, the column is so filled with bubbles that you can't see through the reaction chamber....just looks like a rolling cloud inside of it. Toward the latter part of last week it stopped producing the thick column of bubbles inside the reaction chamber. You can actually see through the chamber...although there is still a good deal of bubbles in there...but there's probably about 80% fewer bubbles inside the chamber than when it is working properly.
Sunday, I took the skimmer out and cleaned it...and the pump. I put it back in the sump and voila! It worked! I tossed it up to the fact that it was dirty and the pump needed to be cleaned out.
Now, today it is doing the same thing it was doing last week.
I'm not very familiar with the Ocean Runner 2700 pump that's running the skimmer, but when I was disassembling it to clean it, the white shaft came out, but the magnet/needlewheel impellar didn't. I tried pulling it out with my fingers, but couldn't get a good enough grip on it, otherwise I would have cleaned it off too. Anyway, I tested the pump before I reassembled everything and it seemed to work great.
Is the shaft supposed to be one piece with the magnet /needlewheel impellar attached?