Roidan,
Oh yes you also suggested to use a giant car jack, maybe must borrow from those car workshop liao!
More photos will be posted soon. Skimmer has just started to foam again, probably due to some oil/chemicals in the new sump and pipings.
I might have mixed up the W and H butr FOC
This sump has 3 compartment, 6mm glass.
Giving away FOC but on condition must collect by this evening else tomorrow I pay the indian workers to throw away.
Too tired after installing my new sump so never wash it.
Collect at Haig Rd.
The jack from my car - Power of dream - Honda. Sorry hands a little shaky after that so very shaky.... shot
Operative load : 760kg, 17650 lbs.
Charge maxi autorise 7.35kn
More than sufficient to do this job
Sump is installed and center beam for front side of the tank installed too. No more worries of the tank stand bowing and main tank cracking
Between the previous photo and this photo it took me like 4 hrs
Old sump is removed. Then installed a center beam for the wooden stand. Thanks to Ian for the tips to use a car jack The nightmare of having to drain out the water from the main tank then slowly hammer in the beam is gone.
Here on the left of the photo you can see the installed beam. On the right is the car jack with a pc of 30mm PVC pipe that lifts the beam on the wooden stand allowing the center beam to be install.
Oh yes a toilet paper is used to plug the overflow pipe as it's still dripping water since my tunzes are still running
More photos of WIP.
All assembled and ready to go. Oh yes this is after the power failure.
Ball valve with orange handle is 25mm, with blue handle is 40mm.
I was in the process of changing my sump. Fixing up the bulkhead. This after I still posted in my thread that I keeping my finger cross because if any blackout then my old sump will overflow and my place will flood.
The real thing happened a few hrs before I get my new sump comissioned. You can say like lucky you are
End up a min flood of abt 5l of water in my home
ya... come take all my macro algae.
The last compartment will have water abt 6" high and 2x1.5ft area while the baffles are 4" and the rest of the empty space is catered for backflow when power failure or when I need to power down the pumps. There will be approx 50% more capacity after complete backflow no more worries I can go on business trip with ease.
My current sump just can't handle the flow and now I am trying my luck, the sump will overflow a little when there is power failure.
Back to work else tonight cannot sleep. Basically it is a non-stop process till I get the sump running.
1st send the sump for leak test to check if the bulkhead are leaking
New thread started else the thread gets too long.
New sump arrived just nice for the new thread.
Sump from Ian, dimension 3x1.5x1.5ft, 8mm
Still wrapped up
Mad or not is another thing.
I'll rather have more overskimming rather than under skimming. Imagine running a huge volume tank but with a miserable small tiny skimmer. Every week change water change till siao