Liquidator ordered!

[Z06Boricua]

Picked up the tap at Ace... the guy at the store took me to the wrong tap...at least I don't feel so bad if he got confused too

Everything is up and running now. Thanks for the great input!

Noticed the fittings leaked at first until they were pushed and pulled a few times. The Watts are sensitive fittings. Also installed a Hayward metering valve. Currently have the flow meter dancing at 3. I'll test the water for chlorine in the am and see how it reads.

Awesome! Glad you got it up and running. We want pics!!

Jose

 

[Blowout]

Finally got around to taking some pics of the install...

Painted the LQ and added a gallon of water at a time and marked it off as recommended.

Drilled through the elbow to provide twice the thickness of material to tap into. It also makes the inside of the fitting almost flush with the inside of the pipe. I used the Watts RT angle fitting to the pump drain plug.

Hayward valve installed. Since I have a Pentair variable speed pump, I found adjusting the pump to a lower speed with the valve wide open worked great until I plumbed in the heater. The heater created additional back pressure and the flow meter jumped from 3 to 5. Now I use the valve to adjust back down to 3. I'm installing a valve to bypass the heater tomorrow so I can check again that the heater back pressure makes the flowmeter rise.

Thanks to all that contributed on this thread. It made the install go together without a hitch.

 

[FixItPete]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this thread. I *love* the idea of threading the pipe instead of using a saddle tap. Thanks again! Pete

 

[busbeepbeep]

So are these the right things, in addition to the quick-connect linked earlier in the thread?

http://www.amazon.com/Century-Drill-Tool-95202-Plug/dp/B004UUAMNG

http://www.amazon.com/Vermont-American-20372-4-Inch-National/dp/B0002YUWLQ/

So I use a 7/16" drill to start the hole, then connect one of these taps to the drill and make the threads, or are these taps meant to be used by hand with a wrench?

 

[Bama Rambler]

They are the right things. They are made to be used by hand, but I use them all the time chucked up in a drill, even on steel, so tapping PVC isn't going to be a problem at all. Just be careful and go slow.

 

[busbeepbeep]

Got the liquidator installed today.

Thanks to the info in this thread and others, I utilized the drain port on the Whisperflo pump for the suction side and used a 1/4" pipe tap on the return side. Not the prettiest install and some bad low light cell phone pics, but everything seems to be working and without any leaks. Flow meter goes up to 5. Had some issues with pump prime after initial install but discovered my tubing wasn't inserted fully in the valve and was drawing air into the line.

Got the liquidator marked for level. Next I gotta paint the tank.

 

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I added a hose bib as well. Thanks for the great idea!

hi, what is a Hose bib?
rgds Mike

 

[Blowout]

It is a faucet that you attach a hose to drain water out of the pool using the filter pump. You can see it almost centered in the pic you attached.

 

[Z06Boricua]

Glad to see that my thread was able to help some people out! I absolutely love the LQ. Also after adding borates, it's nice to only have to add acid once in a while. Thanks to everything I've learned on this forum, my pool really is trouble-free! Now if my 2yo son would just grow up enough to brush the pool for me, I'll be all set.

Jose

 

[Blowout]

Just did an add on to the LC fill funnel. Got the idea while I was...well...ya know.
The antisplash device worked as planned when adding chlorine. Just trimmed it to fit.
I was getting tired of the :splash:

Bought it from ekcos.com for about $9 shipped with tax. Figure if it saves one pair of pants or a shirt it pays for itself.

 

[Blowout]

Got tired of pouring the chlorine and came up with this:

Drilled 2 holes in a cap so it can be inverted in the funnel. The chlorine slowly enters the LC as the level is reduced. Gives me time to do other things. Also found if the splash device is angled down, there is less splash. Jug fits in the funnel with the splash device like this too...

 

[Chuck_Davis]

Do you think that a wad of brass wool would work as a splash guard?

 

[Blowout]

Brass is copper and zinc and the copper will begin to turn the plaster green over an extended period of time. It did to mine because we had copper pipe for about 3 feet going to and from the original heater.

Adding full strength chlorine directly on the brass would have considerably more reactivity with the copper and would expect you would get a high copper level in the pool as well. I'd stick to a non-metal material.