NICE chiller deal at Aqualife today!!

[funman1]

Dropped by Aqualife today cause I hadn't been in there in a long while and wanted to see how it was doing.
Well I saw a Coralife 1/4 hrse chiller on the floor with the front panel haning off, the dust filter was all bent and mis-shappen, and genreally looking like a hunk of junk..


I asked if it worked to which the guy working said "No idea"
Asked how much for it, and got it down to $60!!!!

I'm always in for a DIY for that price..

Got it home fixed the dust filter by filling my sink with boiling water and placing a hot pan on top of it, so as to iron out the plastic again.. And it worked!!!

While that was melting back, I plugged it in to get an error E1 on the screen, time to investigate. Well I found the temp probe had been unplugged. Plugged it back in and; bam the unit started right up and began CHILLING!!!
It's a pretty quiet unit too!! Not very loud at all..

So then I cleaned all the salt build up off of the unit,
and then I re-attached the dust filter that was now the correct shape and tried to put the front panel back on again. But it was missing the clips for the screws to grab, So I grabed my drill and some new self tapping screws and just made new screw holes to hold the front on.






Yeah it does not look "factory" now that I did that, but hey!!
It RUNS and it was Hecka CHEAP!!

For about 1 hour of love (TLC) and $60 bucks, I got a $700 chiller!!!
http://www.innovativelights.com/esu-57002.html
or
http://www.petmeister.com/cat136_1.htm

That's Crazy!! Just thought I'd share..


Also Aqualife lost almost all their LPS in the power outage, and their entire frezzer full of frozen foods
They only had a tiny generator and were switching it from system to system to try and keep them all up..
Sux

[kdblove_99]

yeah, i had seen that chiller there for the past 2 weeks. below there table o junk/stuff.

they have several hamilton hoods there also i think a hood and also a retro. never asked price cause i dont need one.

I went there yesterday and found out the same. Kyle also said they lost about 40-50% of there fish

[sagitariuscbc]

It was meant to be steve what goes around comes around bro!-)

!-)

[saltykelly]

That was my chiller! I talked to Doug who owns AL and he was going to sell it to me, but I didn't have the money at the time. Nice chiller. Glad it went to a good home at least.

[jeffmperez]

Nice score!

Steve - You never cease to amaze me... Wanna sell it?

That sucks to hear about Aqualife

[funman1]

Sorry Kelly Was it FS for the same price I got?

Jeff, Thanks.. No, not looking to sell it.. It would be a very nice addition to my 75 when it gets running someday, or my frag tank in the garage where it gets 130+ in the summer!!!

[Reefugee]

Nice score! Great job in restoring it.

[jtarmitage]

Wow, nice steal.

[BBCoach4]

Great job, Steve. Glad you got hooked up....you're always hooking up everyone else.

[kevin95695]

Sorry to hear about the losses at AL, but dang, Steve that was a SCORE! Karma comin' back around I guess.

[saltykelly]

He wanted to sell it to me for $100, but face of it looked fine back then. He said it worked great, but was a little noisy. I saw it at his house while he was working on it.

[jeffmperez]

Originally posted by funman1
Sorry Kelly Was it FS for the same price I got?

Jeff, Thanks.. No, not looking to sell it.. It would be a very nice addition to my 75 when it gets running someday, or my frag tank in the garage where it gets 130+ in the summer!!!

It was worth a shot! I wouldn't get rid of it either!