My wood tank build

[Alphabet]

13 is actually a LUCKY number!! I too was wondering the life expectancy of a wooden tank? The tank looks great btw!!

[dsandfort]

Well, yeah, but 14 sounded better than 13. Besides, I got a better price with an even number of bulkhead.

Maybe my luck is perfect since I considered 13 and went 14.

The life of this tank is only beginning. I hope my skills will result in a long lived tank. Time will tell.

[rppvt]

remember-- Gaskets on the INSIDE!
lookin goooooood..

[dsandfort]

Inside of what?

[cbui2]

he's saying that the nut should be on outside and gasket with the body has to be mounted on the inside.

[dougchambers]

We run the same modified Durso on our system.


Have you considered an open stand-pipe for redundancy in your overflow? We have one as a safety overflow in the event the durso were to ever get clogged or I forget to open the drain valve. It has saved us more than once... It also allows you to dial in the dual-durso a little closer with zero air introduction.

Just a thought...

[dsandfort]

I follow you on the safety aspect even though I will have 3 of the above. I'm not sure where you are going with the dial in aspect. Are you saying you set the standpipe to the maximum desired depth and then tune the height of the durso to keep the water level just below the standpipe?

[dougchambers]

I didn't explain myself very well. We run a gate valve on the durso drain. It allows us to throttle the drain ever so slightly to keep it flooded all the times without any air or gurgling. I close off the drain just to the point where we get a drip or two over the open stand pipe. Without any air going down the durso, it is dead quiet. I didn't realize that you had multiple dursos draining from the same overflow so it might not be that applicable for your app unless you converted one of them to a safety drain.

-Doug

[dsandfort]

Gottcha-thanks. I planned to plumb the 3 dursos to a manifold outside the overflow box. I think I will convert 1 to a safety overflow. I could put a gate valve downstream of the manifold. On the other hand, this is an in-wall install and I don't think the durso noise will be significant compared to all the pumps.

Thanks again Doug.

BTW-where in Idaho and what's your index (golf).

[dougchambers]

True enough... I doubt you would hear it anyway. With our in-wall, the Sequence 4200SEQ12 and two Gen-X PCX55HPs drown out any water sounds. IMHO, I would still consider an open stand-tube as a safety overflow.

Were in the Boise/Meridian area. As for my index, it isn't worth talking about. I had a little heat stroke issue on a course a couple years ago and havn't played much pasture pool since. I just can't handle the heat for some reason... I hope to get some Spring golf in once it gets here...

[dsandfort]

I've found a glass source. Does $1200 for 96x30 Starphire 3/8" laminated to 3/4" delivered and installed with my supply of silicone sound OK (keep in mind I'm in the sticks)? I guess this might be a rhetorical question since it's the only source of low iron glass I can find.

I do recall a thread that suggested low iron glass might not be all it can be (not worth it). Any input before I pull the trigger?

Thanks

[JCTewks]

why so thick?? It's only 30" tall and you are going with 1 1/8" Glass? I would think that 3/4" would be fine.

[waynesworld]

Dell I am PM'ing you.

[Dtking]

You live in Colorado?!

[Minhle100]

this is just me trying to remember somthing that i've read...but the term" starfire" is a patented term by PPG. so other companies can't call it that. but low iron glass is low iron glass. the combinations of sand to iron is within 5-10% which makes that amount not noticable to the naked eye.

many tank builders like to use the starfire name because it allows them to charge a higher price for the glass.

again this is somewhat off of memory.

[waynesworld]

Yes but there are differences of low iron glass I am sure there are some that are as good as starfire but then I know there are some that are not as I had seen them and if you look at the difference in starfire and regular glass it is huge and well worth the little increase.

King are you talking me or Del? I live in TN and Del lives in CO I have a brother in CO so I follow the boards.

[Fudge]

Sounds a bit expensive to me Del,

I paid about 750 CAD, for 3/8 lam to 3/4 starphire 96x30.

But im unsure of how far the delivery is, aswell as the caulking..

Marc.

[dsandfort]

Well, I found 2 more local (sort of) sources today. They are working on prices. Jeff, I meant to say 2 pieces of 3/8' laminated to give a single piece 3/4" thick.

Wayne-I looked at Glass Cages and I think the shipping would kill me but I might get a quote anyway. The nice thing about local is they will deliver and help me set it.

Maybe it's so expensive here because of the altitude treatment all our glass gets.

[rppvt]

I'm wondering what altitude does to livestock....

[rppvt]

Fich and invertibrates, I mean... not just cows or even cowfish---

[rppvt]

Fish and invertibrates, I mean... not just cows or even cowfish---

[dsandfort]

I think it allows them to hold their breath longer.

[waynesworld]

I know he is sending a truck out there in a month he said

[leetdood]

I have a question on the bulkhead gasket thingy..
Over here in good ol blighty, We say that u should get rid of the rubber gasket on the bulkheads, because a lot of people have had problems with the rubber perishing and invariably leaking.
Are american ones made of a different material?

mike.

[samson78945]

wow i can already tell that this is going to be an incredible tank!! keep up the great work and updates!