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the 4 injector housing....slim and neat

precision air valve.... ohhh..before i forget...please kindly inform me and ask me for permission prior to any use of these pics.....it's only polite...basic courtesy and ettiquette...especially when i am readily available for contact here...

no need to pray lah...but definitely you have to look up to this skimmer as it is definitely taller than you... for other skimmers...go ahead ..... look down on them.... i dun think there are many home skimmers taller than you well..no problem with that scenario...the designer got all angles covered

close up of a GF valve... the feel of closing and opening the valve is....ohhhhh..euphoric.... only GF users can understand such a feeling

more reinforcements

strat: this sunday should be able to fire it up for some test shots here are some GF valves, pipes and fittings.... why need so many? well, cos like i said before..this is a transformer skimmer... can change and change and change and change ... change what? shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

collection cup size

ohhh..and the curvy taper neck H&S/deltec/bubbleking style

box edge

The twin turbos

Decided that it was worthy of a thread of its own... so here goes

i miss babysitting your 3 blastos maybe they miss my tangs swimming past them too...

very symmetrical skeletal structure.....i like it deepblue/other mods.... this thread 100pages long already...please close it

2over metre custom made bubbleking ah....around SGD$16k i said....i got better ways to spend the money...lol if only $4k-$5k for 2m over metre...i gladly pay...but it can't be done lah...their sub-1m units already cost SGD$10k liao

yeah lor..dun let all this techno jingle spoil the fun... tower not in action yet..will post when in action... haven't yet...still deciding...lol...perhaps change the camera after i come back from a trip to japan in december... well...in that case maybe i should pay the Japanese Iwaki engineers a visit

lol.... yeah lor..that's what i use to derive also.. P=VI i told myself it's 350W before i bought them...... well....dun care 250 or 350 or 450 lah.. this hobby was never meant to save money..... this hobby was meant to help obese wallets slim down and ultimately also help us slim down as no more money eat a decent meal

yea alfa.... actually vtec engines do not engage vtec till the engine rpm reaches a certain range if i am not wrong....weileong please enlighten me...since u are a vtec driver...lol at the low to normal usage rpm range...the vtec engine consumes just about the same as the non-vtec ones....please correct me if i am wrong again weileong..hehehe well...i get your point that turbocharging end up using more fuel to get higher output..that i agree....in fact...turbocharging is the way to forcefeed the engine with more air and fuel than usual to get that high performance.. oh well...seriously i do not know why the 240input and 260output is exclusively for running under 50Hz condiiton..whereas the same mx100 running at 60Hz uses 375Winput for 260W output

yeah yeah.... we can end the beckett/needlewheel discussion liao...enough said.... everyone is entitled to their views and opinions before and after reading the discussion perhaps we can now focus on the iwaki mx100 mystery

oh yeah..for those who dunno me or maxima.... these are just friendly constructive discussion with facts, figures and numbers wherever possible... in real life, maxima is my friendly neighbour across the TPE

lol... maybe mx100 use exhaust..oops..output flow to spin the impeller faster ... effects of turbocharging...lol kidding man....seriously dunno how they manage to do it... but if the factory confirmed it...means the japanese engineers must have something up their sleeves in the MX100 power input is 240...but their power output means EFFECTIVE power output...ie....u can feed the same amount of petrol to a VTEC and non VTEC engine...same engine size....but the VTEC one has a higher effective output power than the nonVTEC... yeah!!! i got VTEC iwaki MX100s

max.... that's why there is nothing wrong with the bubbleking at all...the bottomline is the cost price..... but if a beckett skimmer cost only 10-20% of a bubbleking does it mean that a beckett skimmer can offer only 10-20% for a bubleking's performance? in short....performance/price....the beckett wins hands down i know it is kinda unfair to judge beckett skimmers vs German made bubblekings...it's like comparing apples to pears...but both apples and pears are fruits and good for health(reef) ..so either one reefers choose...it's beneficial no doubt with either choice In any case, there will never be an end to the beckett vs needlewheel discussion.....one can choose to climb the European French Alps or the American Grand Canyon...both will give you a high while you are at the summit... if climbing the American Grand Canyon cost only 10%-20% of climbing the French Alps....i rather explore the American Grand Canyon to me...skimmer dynamics is simple......i want as large a volume of skimmer as i possibly can house in my place and squeeze as much bubble density as possible in that large volume.... large volume, super high bubble density, super long reaction time with swirling and rising more than 2meteres............a bubble king with this in consideration will reach $16k like i said...so it cuts down large volume....makes up for super high bubble density....and a reasonable reaction time with their 50-70cm high 12inch wide chambers...and electrical efficient pumps... to me...what i see before me is a $2k Quattro vs a $16k bubbleking of the same size....both 2over meters tall...both totally packed and saturated with bubbles in the chambers....just one running higher powered pumps and the other lower powered pumps... and i figured it will take years to decades to make up the difference in cost....

yeah...of coz there is a prestige to owning a RD or bubbleking...but then....if comparing 2m tall skimmers...i see no point spending $16k on a bubbleking when i can get a reasonably sound beckett for $2k odd... the additional $14k...wow....there are many other ways to use that cash...lol i actually set aside $4-$5k personal max for this last skimmer project which will last me to the end of my hobby days or even my days frankly i was looking at the external 400 bubbleking when there was a introductory price during the first order....but then i realised that i really wanted to go for volume that was humanly possible in my place and yet have the option to scale down the skimmer.... ie. in fact if i take out the middle section and mate just the top and bottom together...it's a skimmer on its own...and probably will make do with a smaller pump.. modularity and flexibility was the key to the design...it's probably a transformer skimmer from the ways i can change the use of the skimmer..but that of coz i am at no liberty to divulge further because it encompasses alot of hard work, research and most importantly, practical hands-on knowledge in the field of skimmer fabrication and observation for those who are lost and want to get into today's discussion..here is the link to get you to the earlier few pages http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...c=18728&st=1425

yeah...to pay about $16,000 for those german "aeronautical engineers' to make a 2over metre tall bubbleking.... i rather chance my luck with $2k with some local designers....after all, when you look pass all the nitty gritty....the biggest and tallest skimmer always have an advantage. Amount of bubbles that can be packed inside the chamber and the reaction time simply by rising 2m is definitely hard to match