Vortex colonoscopy.

[Mikey P]

After 4 years It developed a fresh tank drip.

See the crack?

I can't either, but its there

Both my baffle walls fell over in the first year on my Aero Tech built tank. I had a local welder re tack them in. the sides worked loose but the top and bottom welds are holding. AT had nothing on the bottom holding the walls down. :shock:

HX pipe from the radiator

Redoing the lid gasket while I'm in there.

 

[vincent]

Was that hx pipe always there or did you install it?

 

[Mikey P]

I had Nordik1 install that HX pipe Vince.

You can read more about Nordick1 in the mini hot seat currently going on in the Clean ®oom.

 

[Guest]

You know it was only a matter of time,why do you think I been razzing that Vortex inventing mogul in the past.

 

[steve g]

nothing a little JB weld can't fix

 

[Walt]

How many times have your replaced the float? I had to do mine 3 times. The first 3 (including the original) melted and sagged over time. Replaced it with a copper one- much better.

 

[Mikey P]

I need to put that thing back together this weekend, can I get a copper float locally?

 

[Mikey P]

Toilet tank type?

 

[Mikey P]

no pump, direct feed from garden hose.

 

[Dolly Llama]

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/pr ... =Floats%2C

might be le$$ to contact Olson and see what he gets for the brass(?) float ball used in your PM water box.
I know they're not cheap, It's been so long since I bought one, but think they were close to $70

Those cheap seamed copper ones don't hold up well from my experience

the valve in the V tank is a Roberts float valve?????

looks like these??

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/pr ... =Valves%2C

I wonder why the valves don't hold up well for you V dudes?
Maybe too much water sloshing around in the large tank??

They're pretty well bullet proof when used in small water boxes (3-4 gallon)


..L.T.A.

 

[Mikey P]

nope, this is in the 6008 V's
1 inch model

http://www.hudsonvalve.com/

 

[Walt]

The brass one I got was much faster to fill as well. It's larger than the standard toilet sized one - but looks very similar. Zero plastic except for the float.

 

[Guest]

Try Home Depot - where all the REAL gurus shop

 

[boazcan]

AT has a SS toilet tank float, which is what I have. Attaches at the top of the tank through a hole. Simple yet effective - as long as you are on even pavement!! Just so happens that is all we got around here!!

 

[Mikey P]

Can you work on the float through that porthole?

 

[Jim Martin]

there are 4 bolts that hold a plate on the port hole and the float attaches to it.....Just unscrew the plate and the whole assembly pulls out.......Big difference is when yours breaks in the square tank it is easy to get ..when it breaks in the round tank....forget it....that port hole is the only access into the entire tank and it is only about 6 inches round.......

the broken one is the old one out of my square tank and the new one is the AT float.....
The AT float broke about 2 weeks after I put the new tank in.......

 

[Mikey P]

Cant you turn it upside down and shake it out?

 

[Jim Martin]

sure........ :roll:

 

[bob vawter]

The SS float is the Cats Ass.....it's what i use on MY brand new Genies......

 

[boazcan]

Jim, what broke on it? Not a whole lot to break on that thing.

By the way, your photo library must be on a 100g hard drive. You have pics for everything, and most often they come in handy.

 

[Jim Martin]

they snap off at the brass...where the plunger is..I have just learned to fill it with out one...One of these days I will fix it and not have to worry any more about it..probably use a pressure switch....or a magnetic float switch...

 

[Mikey P]

Yo Morty.

Do yo self a flave of flave and wrap a hose clamp around yo float to keep it from oblonging.

 

[hogjowl]

I have no float. That particular float was found in pieces in the bottom of my tank. I now have a brass one, just like the one Jim showed, but I have not put it in yet.

 

[Jim Martin]

send it back ..it is just going to snap off....

 

[Greenie]

Geez...a baffle or two around the float area would shield the float from all of that sloshing, it's obviously killing the float levers (after they degrade a bit).

The plastic Hudson looks like a winner from a stability point. Mike, what causes them to "oblong"? Just the hot water in general?

 

[Mikey P]

Yep, the outer black shell cant take it for more than a few months.

Even the stock pvc pipe that attached to it oblonged like mad.

 

[Greenie]

btw: I haven't a clue why AT & BLUEline haven't sourced an ALL stainless float/shutoff with a rod that is larger than a drinking straw? Just makes sense to use stuff that will last and actually support the weight of the SS float under vibration and water sloshing, it's carpet cleaning, not rocket science.

Les, here is another one for ya, let's find a better shut off.