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I have a different venturi than you. One of the other people will have to answer. I assume yours is threaded but can't say for sure. I can say that it will come out though. Maybe post a pic.
 
Bignose94015 said:
is it just the threaded connection holding it in?

P.S. thanks for all of the help guys and Gals
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Yep. Just unscrew it. you should give the venturi and the pump a vinegar bath.

If you can. Connect the venturi and the pump in a bucket and let it run for a few hours or overnight. Then disassemble the pump and clean the prop shaft and the cavity the prop shaft goes into in the pump (light scraping will get any calcification off after the vinegar bath).

put it back together and let it run in pure RO for a little bit and you should be good to go
 
Bignose94015 said:
So I did the RO water thing. Nasty black crap started spinning in the skimmer body. The noise completely goes away when in water or the air intake is completely blocked. Will disassemble and try to completely clean.
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It does sound like you've got some contamination in the Venturi. This can happen if the previous owner routinely let the skimmer cup overflow, and the Venturi was sucking its own nog from the cup.

Once you unscrew the Venturi from the body, look into the end of the Venturi closest to the body, you will see a hex key slot. Use an appropriately sized Allen key to screw out the Venturi insert. If it's stuck don't force it, let it soak in vinegar overnight.

This way you can clean out the air mixing chamber, it does sound like there's crud in there.
 
Yogre said:
It does sound like you've got some contamination in the Venturi. This can happen if the previous owner routinely let the skimmer cup overflow, and the Venturi was sucking its own nog from the cup.

Once you unscrew the Venturi from the body, look into the end of the Venturi closest to the body, you will see a hex key slot. Use an appropriately sized Allen key to screw out the Venturi insert. If it's stuck don't force it, let it soak in vinegar overnight.

This way you can clean out the air mixing chamber, it does sound like there's crud in there.
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Awesome Suggestion. Took the venturi completely apart last night and cleaned it out. Re assembled and still made the noise. I did not know that the venturi completely comes out. I will give that a try and update everyone again later tonight.

Thanks,

Eric
 
Bignose94015 said:
Awesome Suggestion. Took the venturi completely apart last night and cleaned it out. Re assembled and still made the noise. I did not know that the venturi completely comes out. I will give that a try and update everyone again later tonight.

Thanks,

Eric
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Dude do you have the Venturi inlet connected to the skimmer cup by hose? With the cap on the cup no way in heck are you going to hear it. Post pic how you have it connected if undure
 
JasonD said:
Dude do you have the Venturi inlet connected to the skimmer cup by hose? With the cap on the cup no way in heck are you going to hear it. Post pic how you have it connected if undure
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Connected. I understand the whoosh noise of the venturi pulling in air. That part is silent when hooked to the collection cup with the lid on. The venturi ames a chugging noise like it is starving for air.

I completely disassembled the venturi and completely cleaned it. The air inlet had gunk all over it that I removed. Ventri completely cleaned check.

I thought there might be an issue with my mag 9 so I pulled it apart. No issues with impeller or flapper re assembled. Check no issue.

Put my mag 12 on the life reef skimmer with the same noise. Pump not the problem check.

Will try and get a movie of the noise for you guys.

Also spoke with Jeff. He explained it was probably a pump issue which I agreed. I am unsure what is creating this surging/chugging noise but I will keep on plugging away.

Thanks,

Eric
 
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Hey Clorox mine has been running for almost 2 weeks I think now and it's just starting to produce dark skimmate so it can take awhile.

I have never had as stable a nice dark sludge as this is starting to put out. Always seems like there's foam coming over compared to my SRO3000 which was unable to put it up and over at the best of times.

Very happy so far.
 
Grantb76 said:
Hey Clorox mine has been running for almost 2 weeks I think now and it's just starting to produce dark skimmate so it can take awhile.

I have never had as stable a nice dark sludge as this is starting to put out. Always seems like there's foam coming over compared to my SRO3000 which was unable to put it up and over at the best of times.

Very happy so far.
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Foam is starting to slowly become more compact and bubbles are getting smaller.
It is little by little moving up the neck of the collection cup, but hasn't yet overflowed into the cup yet. I'm at the 1st week of operation.
 
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