Quick pic before assembly

Aquattro · #1 08-04-2004, 01:05 AM

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.

StirCrazy · #2 08-04-2004, 01:23 AM

thats a nice looking beckett holder

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

Steve

Aquattro · #3 08-04-2004, 01:26 AM

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.

mr_alberta · #4 08-04-2004, 02:17 AM

WOW

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.

Aquattro · #5 08-04-2004, 02:21 AM

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

Bryan · #6 08-04-2004, 02:31 AM

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

StirCrazy · #7 08-04-2004, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

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

EmilyB · #8 08-04-2004, 06:13 AM

It looks crooked......

and a Mak 4 will never do it.

Aquattro · #9 08-04-2004, 07:08 AM

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.

Chin_Lee · #10 08-04-2004, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

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.

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.