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john f
10/03/2006, 04:43 PM
What do you think??


http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/920skimmer_installed.jpg

It's 20" diameter and over 4' tall, and holds about 40 gallons of water!!
Runs on a dart needle wheel and Alita Al60 airpump.
I built a bubble plate for it as well.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/920bubble_plate.jpg

I have to thank my friends Justin and Erick for all of the hard work in putting this project together...I was going to buy 14" diamter acrylic at $250 a foot!!!

Check out the custom lid they did for me on the laser:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/920lid.jpg

Been running for just about a week and I am still dialing it in. I'm thinking of adding a larger ring of acrylic to the underside of the lid.....to force the drier foam over the side of the neck.


John
hahnmeister
10/03/2006, 05:00 PM
Thats just all kinds of nuts...
evil_monkey
10/03/2006, 05:05 PM
what is the reaction chamber made out of?
john f
10/03/2006, 05:13 PM
Fiberglass
smjtkj
10/03/2006, 07:02 PM
What kind of fiberglass container is that? Did you build the cone?

Mike
t-bone2
10/03/2006, 07:33 PM
looks like a rocket
john f
10/03/2006, 07:53 PM
My friends here in town know a fiberglass guy who shot the skimmer based on molds they had designed.

Here is a better pic of the skimmate:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/920scum.jpg

John
Roland Jacques
10/03/2006, 08:36 PM
John F K? to the moon again or what?

Good job

have they finally released the dart NW or was it a custom NW
eric's reef
10/03/2006, 09:45 PM
the ring for the underside of the lid will helpout quite a bit, but watchout for the wet neck!!
melev
10/03/2006, 11:50 PM
Woohoo!
john f
10/04/2006, 11:48 AM
Hey Eric,
So you think the ring will help??
It just seems to me when I run the foam on the dry side it just builds a big head of foam but has trouble spilling over the edge.
If I run it wet, It will sometimes fill the cup with tea color water in a few hours.

john
xinumaster
10/04/2006, 12:00 PM
Woooow. That is a huge skimmer. You could probably sell that to NASA.

I notice you have 2 enaly ozone reactors. Does those reactors fed O3 to your skimmer? If it does will there be no problem using ozone reactor to your fiberglass skimmer?
john f
10/04/2006, 03:57 PM
Not using the ozone yet..I did with my old skimmer.

I'm going to set up an Ozone reactor if I need it again..maybe I will be fine with just the larger skimmer.

John
goodfortune
10/04/2006, 04:12 PM
Awsome skimmer...do you have any pics of the tank you're running it on?

GO GATORS!!! :D

- Michael c/o '98
superedge88
10/04/2006, 04:28 PM
Where did you get your needle wheel from?
ray22
10/05/2006, 01:37 PM
WOW.. that could skim the roof off your house and give your family a Permanent orange afro ..
john f
10/05/2006, 04:19 PM
The needle wheel is from my friend Justin. It is a prototype that he has been working on for sequence.


John
Hella
10/06/2006, 05:40 AM
Wow that thing is huge. Nice job
eric's reef
10/11/2006, 07:54 PM
hey john,
did you put the deflection ring on yet? i think we centered the logo around where you could put a piece of 8" ring right around the perimeter of it. eric
humbugy
10/12/2006, 12:37 AM
wow, havent heard a quote from that movie, like ever, lol

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8282805#post8282805 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ray22
WOW.. that could skim the roof off your house and give your family a Permanent orange afro ..
john f
10/12/2006, 01:04 AM
Haven't been able to get with Justin to get the ring yet.
I've been running the thing "wet" the past few days anyhow just to see how that goes.

John