It's been a bit since I updated the thread here.....I was on vacation last week and with the holidays did get a bit of work done, but was anticipating a little more, but we all know that we sometimes over simplify or under estimate the time it takes.....
Anyways most of you know I'm pretty anal about the work.....Finally got started plumbing the tank from the return pump. I had purchased a manifold system and started plumbing from there and didn't really care for it once I started working with it, so went another route that was suggested on the previous page......I wanted to keep all the plumbing at 1 1/2" as long as possible before I had to reduce it down to 1" for the bulkheads. Through my original planning I was planning on running 1" straight off the manifold to the returns, and bought 1" gate valves, but again after actually getting started and working, I went back with the original plan of running 1 1/2" lines and just had to use reducers to utilize the gate valves already purchased.......
Again pretty anal about plumbing work and didn't get good pics, because of space and trying to get FTS of the plumbing is rather hard, but here are a couple pics of the plumbing I've taken so far....I will try to get more pics shortly and will probably do a walk around video so you can see the progress a little better.....
A shot of the plumbing started off the overflow box......Again taking a bit of time due to me having to have all the plumbing painted black.....
The plumbing work started coming from the return pump going to the 2 returns on the right side of the tank. You can see things are just being dry fitted. Each return line once split has it's own gate valve for precise flow control.
Same pipe work as the above pic, but from a different angle.....As I had mentioned wanted to try to carry the 1 1/2" pipe as long as I could and on this side of the tank as soon as I got to the gate valves on top of the tank, I didn't have much choice but to reduce it there to 1" because of clearance issues, but it's all workable......
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Again pics of the plumbing work done on the opposite end of the tank where the overflow is....As I had mentioned pics are hard to get, so a video might show a little more detail, but I ran 1 pipe off the manifold to this end of the tank and split it then into 2. Each pipe going to the bulkheads have their own individual gate valve to allow precise flow control on the returns.....I also used unions, so if needed I can pull the plumbing apart. You can also see that I scuffed a bit of the paint work up, but have to go back and touch up some areas when time permits.
