aaarrgghhh...best way to stop plumbing leak

[rocknut]

Any suggestions on stopping a small leak in my closed loop plumbing set-up? I am just about ready to start my new closed loop set-up with my oceansmotions wave maker, and still have one leak in the piping (coming out of the wave maker). I dried it out, and did about 5 coats of pvc glue, (drying between coats), and then put a beed of silicone on top of that. Still leaks...Any other ideas? This is my first plumbing project, and I'm sure there are some tricks of the trade I don't know about. Thanks! rocky

[K9]

Duct tape. It works for everything else! No, seriously have you tried a piece of new PVC pipe and new joints? Would it be too hard just to put in a new piece of pipe?

-K9

[invincible569]

plumbing is one of the easiest things you can do!!! having a leak is nothing! I bet it will only take you 2 mins to fix it. Just cut both ends with a PVC cutter (cheap one from Home depot), then as K9 said.. replace it. So easy!

[rocknut]

The problem is, the screw in adapter is now glued in place, (quite a hole I've dug myself...) So I'm not sure I can get it out with out cutting out ALL plumbing going from the wavemaker, and removing the entire unit from the plumbing, and almost starting over.

[redawg]

well atleast next time u'll know better.. always leave room for mistakes.. might try some acrylic epoxy to melt the pieces together..

[akula]

try crazy glue.

[Dubbin1]

Next time use a primer before you glue.

[maxima k2]

This is going to sound strange but I once repaired a motorcycles fuel tank that had a crack in it with superglue and baking soda. Just put alot of superglue on the leak and while it is still wet sprinkle baking soda on it. Strange but it repaired a 200 dollar fuel tank that I couldnt seal with anything Ibought from the store.

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by maxima k2
This is going to sound strange but I once repaired a motorcycles fuel tank that had a crack in it with superglue and baking soda. Just put alot of superglue on the leak and while it is still wet sprinkle baking soda on it. Strange but it repaired a 200 dollar fuel tank that I couldnt seal with anything Ibought from the store.

LOL What ever made you think to try that?

[rdelong]

I have had great success by drying the joint out good and applying Marine Goop to the entire joint liberally. you must let it cure for about 24 hours depending on your temperature conditions. Lowes,many hardware stores, and marine centers carry this product if you're not already familiar with it.

[Leopardshark]

super glue and baking soda should do the trick.
Also you might try some epoxy, it has worked for me in some ocasions
Marco

[JoeMack]

let some jb weld or reef epoxy start to dry so its formable. and smash it where the leak is till you replace it

[maxima k2]

I got the trick from an old guy who raced cars his whole life and had a few plastic fuel cells split at the seam. This is exactly what happened to me. I couldnt get to the inside of the tank to seal it so I tried JB weld, plastic epoxy, silicone, rub a bar of soap into the crack,pvc glue, and even tried to melt the seam back together. Although the bar of soap was second best(gas doesnt dissolve soap) heat was the issue. JBweld sucks didnt last 2 minutes, I have no good experiences with it. Plain superglue didnt work until I mixed baking soda. I sold the bike and 6 months later to a friend and he had it for at least 2 more years and it never gave him any problems.