Icebox
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I need help with my durso. Does anyone have experience with these?
I have a 1-inch bulkhead, drilled in the bottom of the tank. I built a Durso using 3/2-inch pipe. I ran the pipe out of the bulkhead down to the sump with a 1-inch pipe. That pipe is about an inch under water, and it just sits there and gurgles away. It is so so so loud it sounds like a gurgling brook in my bedroom.
My question becomes this. Has anyone modified a durso to make the water entering the tank quieter?
I had the 1-inch pipe entering the tank almost all the way to the bottom, but then it kept with the flushing effect. So I kept cutting that off, and now it is just beneath the water level and still doing it. So I drilled the hole in the top a little bigger, and bigger and bigger, and almost up to a 1/4 inch hole, and then I drilled another hole, and it got bigger and bigger, and then I drilled a 3rd hole. Well the flushing level changing action in the overflow has stopped but all that air that is getting sucked through makes 1 awful noise when entering the sump.
I was thinking that I would put a 90-degree bend at the bottom (just beneath the water level in the sump and a small straight piece to try to kelp cut down on the noise? Do you think it would work? Or how about a U at the bottom?
I am at a loss, any help would be appreciated…
I have a 1-inch bulkhead, drilled in the bottom of the tank. I built a Durso using 3/2-inch pipe. I ran the pipe out of the bulkhead down to the sump with a 1-inch pipe. That pipe is about an inch under water, and it just sits there and gurgles away. It is so so so loud it sounds like a gurgling brook in my bedroom.
My question becomes this. Has anyone modified a durso to make the water entering the tank quieter?
I had the 1-inch pipe entering the tank almost all the way to the bottom, but then it kept with the flushing effect. So I kept cutting that off, and now it is just beneath the water level and still doing it. So I drilled the hole in the top a little bigger, and bigger and bigger, and almost up to a 1/4 inch hole, and then I drilled another hole, and it got bigger and bigger, and then I drilled a 3rd hole. Well the flushing level changing action in the overflow has stopped but all that air that is getting sucked through makes 1 awful noise when entering the sump.
I was thinking that I would put a 90-degree bend at the bottom (just beneath the water level in the sump and a small straight piece to try to kelp cut down on the noise? Do you think it would work? Or how about a U at the bottom?
I am at a loss, any help would be appreciated…
I will let you know how it goes.