Konyak
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@Joe:
This was inspired by StevieT's legendary media rack and I think it's great how he's turned that into a business and I hope he's doing well with it and it that it continues to grow. If I wasn't such a sucker for DIY I would have just gotten his rack, but since I like the DIY process and experimenting, I wanted to see if I could get more out of the Purigen with this design. I won't have a good way of making a comparison except perhaps by seeing if the purigen darkens uniformly as apposed to on one side or in spots.
I have no intention of going into business with this, in fact if this seems to work and if someone could verify that it's even better, then I'd rather see it sold by inTank as an alternative design. But there's a lot of IF's from here to there
Just wanted to put that to rest
@Diana: That "purigen" bag is some unidentified used bag I got with the tank, just used it for fitting while my new purigen bag is just going with the flow in somewhere in the back of the tank I think I last saw it sucked up under the pumps.
@Sully: Yeah, I work as an engineer in the food processing industry, making things out of laser cut stainless steel, so the process is similar, but I'd hate for that fact to deter you or others from seeing this way of fabricating as out of reach for anyone. Fact is, these are exciting times for people like us, as machines are emerging (laser cutting, desktop 3D printing, for example) that coupled with pretty easy to use cad programs (Google Sketchup supports formats used by these machines) give you access to personalized products, such as this. I saw one guy on some forum 3D printed his own ventury for a skimmer he was building.. A Beckett injector is a prime candidate for 3D printing since it takes a complex mold to mass produce. Right now you can send your cad files out to people who will laser cut or 3D print your part and send them back, just like we can send our film to be developed, but now we mostly develop our "film" at home, if you catch my drift. Want to see if an idea for a new needle wheel on your skimmer impeller will give better foaming bubbles? Sketch it up, hit print and have a cup of coffee, then go try it out
Exciting times
This was inspired by StevieT's legendary media rack and I think it's great how he's turned that into a business and I hope he's doing well with it and it that it continues to grow. If I wasn't such a sucker for DIY I would have just gotten his rack, but since I like the DIY process and experimenting, I wanted to see if I could get more out of the Purigen with this design. I won't have a good way of making a comparison except perhaps by seeing if the purigen darkens uniformly as apposed to on one side or in spots.
I have no intention of going into business with this, in fact if this seems to work and if someone could verify that it's even better, then I'd rather see it sold by inTank as an alternative design. But there's a lot of IF's from here to there
Just wanted to put that to rest
@Diana: That "purigen" bag is some unidentified used bag I got with the tank, just used it for fitting while my new purigen bag is just going with the flow in somewhere in the back of the tank
I think I last saw it sucked up under the pumps. @Sully: Yeah, I work as an engineer in the food processing industry, making things out of laser cut stainless steel, so the process is similar, but I'd hate for that fact to deter you or others from seeing this way of fabricating as out of reach for anyone. Fact is, these are exciting times for people like us, as machines are emerging (laser cutting, desktop 3D printing, for example) that coupled with pretty easy to use cad programs (Google Sketchup supports formats used by these machines) give you access to personalized products, such as this. I saw one guy on some forum 3D printed his own ventury for a skimmer he was building.. A Beckett injector is a prime candidate for 3D printing since it takes a complex mold to mass produce. Right now you can send your cad files out to people who will laser cut or 3D print your part and send them back, just like we can send our film to be developed, but now we mostly develop our "film" at home, if you catch my drift.
Want to see if an idea for a new needle wheel on your skimmer impeller will give better foaming bubbles? Sketch it up, hit print and have a cup of coffee, then go try it out Exciting times
