Have you thought about just buying a couple of OceanClear canisters to hook up to the pump and be done with it? They are plumbed for the same size plumbing and are awesome... I had the same pump hooked up to two of these cans and you can purge them.
Ghetto giant canister with pumps and buckets?
- Thread starter knifegill
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Good idea, and probably what the person who had this thing before me did. The pump is prefitted with a T split, so I could run it into two filters. Short of dropping $160 that I'll never have, what other containers might work as canisters? I have saws, grinders and drills, so can do a bit of modification to, say, an oxygen tank or something like that. Any ideas in that neighborhood?
The main problem with DIY is that a lot of things have to be watertight and that requires precision manufacturing. All cannister filters have fairly sturdy bodies, a big O-ring in a precisely made groove, and heavy duty latches or similar for a watertight seal. You just can't do that with hand tools, you need a machine shop.
You could try finding a large cannister filter with a dead motor and use the external pump to push water through it. Remove the old impeller as it would likely only impede flow. It would have to be a heck of a cannister filter to take a 1200 gph pump though. Maybe a small pond filter?
You could try finding a large cannister filter with a dead motor and use the external pump to push water through it. Remove the old impeller as it would likely only impede flow. It would have to be a heck of a cannister filter to take a 1200 gph pump though. Maybe a small pond filter?
