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jgoldsney 09-22-2004 03:05 PM

Need sump advice....
 
Well now that my system is up and running I realised that one of the baffles in my sump was too tall. It prvented my skimmer from operating correctly.

I tried to cut the glass in place but that was a failure and the baffle broke.

I now have a couple of options....

1) Leave everything as is (the big chunk that I broke out of the baffle now allows water to flow at close to the level that I wanted)

2) Temporarily modify my return so that the side with the busted baffle is dry and then replace it with a new peice of glass at a lower height (need to drop it 2-3")

3) Remove the baffle all together and just leave it out.
Here is a really crude ASCII diagram of what my baffle configuration is.
The problem baffle was #3 it was too tall and made my skimmer try to float. I couldn't raise the skimmer because I wouldn't be able to remove the collection cup so the only solution was to lower the baffle.

1..2...3
........]
...]....]
]..]....]<-broken baffle
]..]....]
].......]
].......]

muck 09-22-2004 03:14 PM

I would temporarily modify the return so you can replace the busted baffle.
But thats just me. Knowing that it was busted would annoy me to no end until I replaced it anyways... :mrgreen:


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