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Originally posted by dgill
One other nice feature, at least on the MSX250 (not sure about the smaller versions). The bubble plate is actually two pieces and I expect this helps prevent the plate from cracking if the thumb screw is overtightened. Nice touch but maybe ATI and others do this as well?
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I bet its so that you can open up/remove the bubble plate for cleaning w/o needing to have a flange on the skimmer to open it up enough. I tinkered with the idea with regards to external cone skimmers... because flanges are even more of a problem/larger than with normal skimmers then. So a bubble plate that could come apart into more parts seemed like the best way to be able to open up the skimmer/remove the plate for cleaning. The other option was a flexible bubble plate... some sort of rubber most likely, that would be removed.
Its a good idea though... this skimmer looks to be a well thought out design.