Ok, tell me what I did wrong

[Little Luey]

Ok, I tried the mag5 and it works, but it is still spitting water once in a while but since it is in the sump it does not matter. Since I used a plastic hose after the ventury I can see the air and water going in, no scum yet and it had been running for maybe 10min. I imagine there will be a break in period just like on store bought skimmers. If I was to change that pump for the 1000gph will that water spitting go away?

[Geoff]

good, i am glad it was the pump. that skimmer looked good, so i was getting very confused there for a bit. if you have a 1000gph pump than slap that sucker on it.

unsure why the Mag 7 impellor was not working in the Mag 5. i know it works cause i just did this a month ago and it worked for me. i had a bad mag 7 body, and a good Mag 5 body. so i switched out the impellors so i would have a good Mag 7. worked great.

there is a break in period. can you see where the water level is in the skimmer?

G~

[Little Luey]

No, I cannot see the water level but I can feel the bubles poping up when I put my hand on the pipes. If I don't get anything by tomorrow I will try the bigger pump, I like to skim wet anyhow.

[Geoff]

you can just lengthen the outlet tube. i used those expandable couplers on mine, those barrel looking things in the pics, to control the water level in the skimmer.

G~

[joshsmit56001]

Can you upgrade a mag 9.5 to a larger mag pump such as a Mag 12 or so by canging the impeller??

Just Curious,
Josh

[Little Luey]

Originally Posted by joshsmit56001

Can you upgrade a mag 9.5 to a larger mag pump such as a Mag 12 or so by canging the impeller??

Just Curious,
Josh

I am not sure about those two. On my case the mag5 and the 7 have the same body, but my impeller for the mag7 for some reason does not work well on the mag5 body.

[Geoff]

i am wondering if your mag 5 was an older one, and the Mag 7 impellor was a newer B version. about 4 years ago Mag updated something in their pumps. the replacement impellors were labeled as B. the label on the pump may say B on it. if it does not than i am thinking this could be the problem. you were trying to put a B impellor in a non B Mag.

G~

[Little Luey]

It could be, the pump only says "Model 5" on it. I just got it last summer but I guess it could have sat on the shelf for a while.
I tried the 1000gph pump, it is pumping but I still ge some water spitting out once in a while. I remember looking in to the ventury and seeing a piece of plastic inside that did not quite looked like it belong there, I am going to take it off cause it may be the reason water keeps coming out.I just hooked it up so we'll see if I get any skimmate.

[Little Luey]

Well, I think I just found out why the ventury was spitting water every so often, inside the ventury there was a small piece of plastic like a sliver attached to the inside right were the hole gets smaller, this may have been flapping as the water when thru and causing it to go in to the hole. I removed that and the spitting is gone, this means I can use the pump outside the sump. I just hooked it back up so no foam yet. Will report back in a couple of hours.

[hng]

Congrats!! Sounds great, I have to say the problem you were having sounded pretty weird.

[Geoff]

glad it was something like that!!

it was very strange that you were getting water out of the hole every now and then instead of regularly.

G~

[Little Luey]

Thanks guys, if I can only see some foam now I will be in heaven. After 2 hrs nothing yet.

[Little Luey]

Well, Barcochris came up to my office and he notice why I don't have any foam. Originally I had a ball gate to restrict the water comming out of the skimmer, after all the changes I made I did not have one, so the water is just passing thru the skimmer with very little contact time because the flow is not restricted. I will fix that today and see what happens.

[Geoff]

i saw in the pic that you had a ball valve on the outlet. i was going to tell you to start closing the ball valve to raise the water level in the skimmer if it was still not producing foam. i guess that would have been hard with it gone.

if you can find one, a gate valve is much easier to adjust on a skimmer outlet than a ball valve. ball valves are very difficult to move a tiny bit.

G~

[Little Luey]

I actually changed the outlet to go to the sump. LOL, silly me.