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[andycook]

Any suppliers for 12", 16" or even 24" acrylic tube?

 

[spazz]

do you wnat to spend upwards of $350 a foot for tube that big? if so then carr mc master sells up to 18" tube.

 

[andycook]

It isn't a matter of wanting to spend. I think I paid ~28/foot for 6" tube. Are their any other options? How about PVC in that size?

 

[spazz]

check with some of your local contractors in your area and see if they have some short sections of pvc left over from a job. this would be the best way to find bigger tubes like that.

 

[andycook]

How about a square mixing chamber?

 

[slevesque]

Up to 58" dia. link It's a tank but you could always cut it a bit and keep only the tube part.

 

[andycook]

Yes I saw those. I thought the wall was rather thin. I wonder if I could get a universal seal to actually seal with walls that thin?

 

[slevesque]

I didn't realized. 0.04" is indeed quite thin. Maybe you could email them.

 

[andycook]

I'm now thinking about a rectangular mixing chamber rather than a tube. Sure would make plumbing it easier.

 

[jmkarcz]

ORRRR.... get a sonet tube at Home Depot, of cardboard, and get acrylic sheet, and heat it up in long strip like patterns, slowly wrapping the tube, then put a laped seam in back. ORR a hex or octagonal pattern...

huh...


yep, all the hard works done, I'm going to bed. seemed perfectly clear at the time.

J