Tiny Might skimmer rockin'
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spazz
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yep its worse than gambling.
at least when you gamble and loose you feel bad. but when you are reefing there is always a set back here and there. its to be expected. so you dont feel bad and go on spending more and more. but you have less and less set backs as time goes on. so you feel like your winning. thats when you buy that 400 gallon tank and all those expensive toys that go with it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
its a 6.8 billion dollar a year hobby. i think its one of hte most expensive hobbies a person can have. it gets the entire family invloved in it. i dont dare take the wife to the fish store or a frag swap. thats a big no no. i had a friend that told me not to bring my wife over to his house( he owes me some frags) he said she would wipe out his tank.:lol: :lol: :lol:
its funny to think a big guy would be afraid of a 120lbs woman. :lol: :lol: :lol:
at least when you gamble and loose you feel bad. but when you are reefing there is always a set back here and there. its to be expected. so you dont feel bad and go on spending more and more. but you have less and less set backs as time goes on. so you feel like your winning. thats when you buy that 400 gallon tank and all those expensive toys that go with it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
its a 6.8 billion dollar a year hobby. i think its one of hte most expensive hobbies a person can have. it gets the entire family invloved in it. i dont dare take the wife to the fish store or a frag swap. thats a big no no. i had a friend that told me not to bring my wife over to his house( he owes me some frags) he said she would wipe out his tank.:lol: :lol: :lol:
its funny to think a big guy would be afraid of a 120lbs woman. :lol: :lol: :lol:
hahnmeister
In Memoriam
I just hate how DIY projects start to stack up faster than you are able to complete them. I wouldnt mind doing so many of these projects, but Im at the point where Im not even in need of some of this stuff. Im trying to finish up my projects here... and then 3 more pop in my head. I really have to start taking martial arts classes again or something... trying to get back some stability here...lol. Maybe I can just get that spectroradiometer, do bulb tests and 'just say no' to the rest... I have waaay to many skimmer bodies laying around the basement at this point.
BeanAnimal
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My original design for my bottom flange was a simple v-groove cammed "marman clamp" similar to the band clamp that holds 55g drum lids on. The second idea was a Victaulic type quick coupler (same idea but it is a 2 piece shell not a band).
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Instead I got lazy and jsut built a bolt on unit and gasket.... oh well. 12 3/8 dia thumbscrews is not so bad.
Instead I got lazy and jsut built a bolt on unit and gasket.... oh well. 12 3/8 dia thumbscrews is not so bad.
BeanAnimal
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BeanAnimal
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A nice weekend sidetrack if anybody is bored....
Use them all the time in the mining industry (and just about every other kind of victaulic coiper made) I only have some 1 1/4" ers at the house that will fit what we call "Mine Spray Hose" made by goodyear. Something else I have access to.. and is nice if you ever need heavy duty waterline for pump discharge or something.... Need high pressure hydrulic staple lock fittings? Brass block CONFLO water flow guages? Maybe a self rescuer or a cap lamp or two? Mine pager phones? How about a methane detector or multiple gas detector? Metacarpal gloves, full face dust filters (not paper mask)...
Hell I have a moyno concrete pump stator that will take your tinymite in one end and spit it out the other at 300 PSI at about 40 GPM... don't worry it's a somewhat fixed displacement pump, so what it does not suck in water, it will suck in as air! Actually we use it to mix lighweight air entrained concrete products and pump them over 1000' in underground coal mines.... it has one of these (well kind of) in it. check out http://www.moyno.com/website/products/powerflow/images/product.jpg (I don't want to direct link photos from too many sites...as I am sure they don't like it.)
I am sure the lady of the house would love for somebody to come releive my house (and my fathers) of our "stuff". Somehow I think she pictures a pack ratt and is son when she dreams of us.
Now I don't have one of these http://www.hauhinco.com/5K/5k.htm But as you can see from the specs, it will do about 140 GPM at over 6,000 PSI. It only consumes 400kW... and we run at leats 3 of them on a modern longwall to supply hydrualic pressure. 1 lead pump, 1 lag pump, and 1 standby in most cases. So figure around 1000-12000kw. They run 24/7 365. Hrmm anybody want to do the math on the electric bill? Lets see... that is 1000kWh an hour... or 24,000kWh a day (lets say at .05 a kWh) or $1200 a day just to run the pumps! They keep roof above the 1000' long face up http://www.francisengineering.com/Face01.jpg
Add in the dual 300 horsepower head drives and tail drives... that is about 1200HP that runs pretty much 24/7. http://www.francisengineering.com/Gearcase3.jpg
Then of course you have a dozen or more belt drives for the conveyors that are 24/7 and a few hundred to maybe a thousand HP each... Yes THAT SAYS almost 1 MILLION CFM at a whopping 15" of water!
don't forget the ventillation http://www.spendrupfanco.com/120_fan.html fans at 24/7 and a few hundred HP each. http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/1/15/Fan,_Virginia_Coal_Mine_Ventillation.png
And the dozens and dozens of other HUGE pieces of equipment that run all day and night http://www.francisengineering.com/services.htm
Do you want your power bill to be $15,000 a day... or maybe $20,000 a day... every day?
Sorry for the sidetrack... just got carried away with big pumps!
Use them all the time in the mining industry (and just about every other kind of victaulic coiper made) I only have some 1 1/4" ers at the house that will fit what we call "Mine Spray Hose" made by goodyear. Something else I have access to.. and is nice if you ever need heavy duty waterline for pump discharge or something.... Need high pressure hydrulic staple lock fittings? Brass block CONFLO water flow guages? Maybe a self rescuer or a cap lamp or two? Mine pager phones? How about a methane detector or multiple gas detector? Metacarpal gloves, full face dust filters (not paper mask)...
Hell I have a moyno concrete pump stator that will take your tinymite in one end and spit it out the other at 300 PSI at about 40 GPM... don't worry it's a somewhat fixed displacement pump, so what it does not suck in water, it will suck in as air! Actually we use it to mix lighweight air entrained concrete products and pump them over 1000' in underground coal mines.... it has one of these (well kind of) in it. check out http://www.moyno.com/website/products/powerflow/images/product.jpg (I don't want to direct link photos from too many sites...as I am sure they don't like it.)
I am sure the lady of the house would love for somebody to come releive my house (and my fathers) of our "stuff". Somehow I think she pictures a pack ratt and is son when she dreams of us.
Now I don't have one of these http://www.hauhinco.com/5K/5k.htm But as you can see from the specs, it will do about 140 GPM at over 6,000 PSI. It only consumes 400kW... and we run at leats 3 of them on a modern longwall to supply hydrualic pressure. 1 lead pump, 1 lag pump, and 1 standby in most cases. So figure around 1000-12000kw. They run 24/7 365. Hrmm anybody want to do the math on the electric bill? Lets see... that is 1000kWh an hour... or 24,000kWh a day (lets say at .05 a kWh) or $1200 a day just to run the pumps! They keep roof above the 1000' long face up http://www.francisengineering.com/Face01.jpg
Add in the dual 300 horsepower head drives and tail drives... that is about 1200HP that runs pretty much 24/7. http://www.francisengineering.com/Gearcase3.jpg
Then of course you have a dozen or more belt drives for the conveyors that are 24/7 and a few hundred to maybe a thousand HP each... Yes THAT SAYS almost 1 MILLION CFM at a whopping 15" of water!
don't forget the ventillation http://www.spendrupfanco.com/120_fan.html fans at 24/7 and a few hundred HP each. http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/1/15/Fan,_Virginia_Coal_Mine_Ventillation.png
And the dozens and dozens of other HUGE pieces of equipment that run all day and night http://www.francisengineering.com/services.htm
Do you want your power bill to be $15,000 a day... or maybe $20,000 a day... every day?
Sorry for the sidetrack... just got carried away with big pumps!
BeanAnimal
Premium Member
They would be nice for a the larger dia tubes.
My problem was the height of my tube and the amount of lateral stress that could be put on a twist lock. That's why I went with the 1" thick PVC flange and 3/8" bolts.
My problem was the height of my tube and the amount of lateral stress that could be put on a twist lock. That's why I went with the 1" thick PVC flange and 3/8" bolts.
BeanAnimal
Premium Member
Yeah... your twistlocks looked pretty beefy. My other problem is that I didn't have the patience to build a jig. I am too much of a perectionist sometimes, and I would have spent as much time on the twist lock flange jig and process as I did the entire skimmer.
I started to do that for the bubble diffusor. I had drawn up a way to make a perfect indexing table for the drill press. At some point... I just said the hell with it and used a single pivot pin and eyeballed the alignment in the flange bolts and bubble plate.
I started to do that for the bubble diffusor. I had drawn up a way to make a perfect indexing table for the drill press. At some point... I just said the hell with it and used a single pivot pin and eyeballed the alignment in the flange bolts and bubble plate.
