Quick pic before assembly
 

Here is a dry run at assembling the new skimmer. Hopefully it will be finished this week-end. It stands 49" tall and uses 8" tubing.

http://www.islandreef.ca/post/newskim.jpg

thats a nice looking beckett holder :lol: you going to flange it on or just glue it to the tube? won't be easy to get the tube off on yours like mine will.

guess I better get mine finnished.. might be easyer to finnish it than to clean out the old becket :rolleyes:

Steve

Steve, I thought about that, and decided to put a fitting inline between that darn fine looking beckett holder and the box. That will make it easier to remove for cleaning.

WOW :eek:

What pump are you using to drive that? I was thinking about building a 30" beckett with 8" tubing but wasn't sure if my T3 pump would have enough umph.

I'm usig a MAK 4 to run it, which I think should be fine. I hope :rolleyes:

Would you be able to post some pics of the beckett holder/chamber. Need to DIY one myself.

actualy that beckett holder is my design and there are pics of it in a old thread of mine somewhere in the DIY forum. I am going to be making another batch of these in there near future also.

Steve

It looks crooked...... :confused: and a Mak 4 will never do it.

:biggrin:

It is crooked, and the MAK will have to do for now. It will be an aerofoamer knockoff, with the swirling water column. Stephane had good luck with the MAK 4 on his, so we'll give it a go. :razz:

Mak 4
 

I built mine out of 6" tubes and it stands almost 4 feet tall. I currently have a mak4 and a mag 18 on a dual beckett system and it skims AWESOME. I shut my mag 18 off for a few days just to see if I could run it on just the mak4 and the foam would not rise past the riser.