Plumbing Question

OK, so I installed the Megaflow overflow kit. This had the 1" and 3/4" barbbed bulkheads.

I bought the plumbing kit which will work, but its the flex hose and most of you say go with the slip and piping connection.

One question I have is, if you use the slip bulkhead and glue in the PC at the bottom, then a 90 elbow, ect. I dont see how this will ever be removable.

Is there any trick to this ? at least witht the flex and clamps, it is removable in the future.


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I would say use a rubber furnco coupling somewhere as you would for any Pvc connection that you wanted to be able to take apart.

 

Maybe a Pvc Threaded union would be better.

 

i wouldnt go with a furnco. Either a union or a pvc compression coupling. but yea you are right once you glue it it's there. you may also want to give a little room between you fittings incase you need to cut it and put a coupling in at some point in time.

 

It won't ever be removable except by cutting or sawing. The solution is to use a threaded male adapter with threaded couplings.





That way you glue the PVC (flex or rigid type) into the slip fitting on the male adapter; give it a couple of wraps of teflon tape, and screw that into the coupling. It's water tight, and removable should you wish to change the scenario down the road.

 

Heres what I used...The grey coupler in the right hand corner on the pipe to the sump is the example.

 

Yup. I ran into sawing up my plumbing when I started taking apart my 75g. As long as you leave enough room to use a coupler, you can redo it easily. I trust gluing over threading anyday of the week.

 

For what it's worth, a threaded joint made corectly is probably more reliable than a glued joint, but maybe Tangster could chime in here.

 

Tell that to my sink!!!!! I want to glue that NOW!!!! Drip, drip, drip. Poopy. Hehehe.

 

Thanks all,
Those coupler do dads may do the trick.

So assembled it was too tall.


So I shortened it so the union is inside the tank. So I have 6" or so to get from the bulkhead to the ball valve. Oddly enough, that was even tough to do with the flex hose.



I can't go from the bulkhead directly to the sump, it needs to go to the left about 10". At some point it will need to bend anyway, so hopefully the flow wont be restricted.