I thought i would share my new skimmer build with everyone and how i built it.
The material used is:
2x 48"x24" 1/4" cell cast acrylic, 1x 8'x8" cast tubing, 2x 8'x2" cast tubing, 1x 8'x5" tubing, two Beckett injectors, 40 1/4" nylon thumb screws, one 1 1/4" slip to slip gate valve, Weldon #4 andschedule 80 fittings and tubing.
Tools i needed to build it were:
Table saw, Drill press, dremmel, thread taps, miter saw, square, hammer, (for when all else fails
) sand paper (220# and 120#) buffing compounds ( I like the hard sticks) Buffing wheel with three seperate pads and did i mention a hammer?
Here are some material pictures:
I started by building the mixing box. The dementions are 12"x12"x14". In the origanal design the baffle in the box is a true 90 and the 5" tube riser sits an inch through the bottom. I found this to be a flaw and tilted my baffle so the bubbles would slide either to the 5" riser or back to where the mixing tube inject the bubbles. I also dadoed my bottom baffle for the 5"riser to sit flush with instead of pushing through 1". This allows to bubbles not to gather around it causeing the skimmer to burp.
