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Originally Posted by Geoff
aka_bigred-Casey tried that kind of skimmate collection method on one of his skimmers and found that it did not do as good of a job as if it were a proper collection cup. the skimmate being pushed up on the far side of the elbows has nowhere to go but back into the skimmer itself. this limits the efficiency of the skimmer.
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Yes, I noticed that right away. I did tweak it so that the U shape isn't perfectly vertical/horizontal or glued to the reducer. It's just pressed in and then tilted maybe 5-8° so that when the skimmate gets over the first 90 "hump" it runs slightly downward away from the column and into the drain side. I've found this seems to help quite a bit, and figured it's closer to a real collection cup's theory. It may not be 100% effective, but for a 2 min & $1 solution, I can't complain.
I'll try to snap a pic of it's current design to show it.
Maybe this winter I'll bet time to make a "real" cup and see if the skimmate production changes, but the tilt tweak did wonders.
