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We chose a mag drive pump for this pond?
And what I have here is a cool little pump, two different orientations I can install it
horizontally like this, or in a vertical orientation like this.
It's 5,200 gallons per hour at zero head, and we have about five foot of head that we're
dealing with in here, so we're gonna have about 4,200 gallons an hour.
So, we'll have a nice robust waterfall.
The plumbing today can be a little tricky,
because we're going inside the helix pond skimmer.
You know, it's a very compact, tall compartment.
So we're gonna choose to go in the vertical orientation, inside the helix.
Now I have all my fittings lined out, and I'll show you a couple of tricks that I did.
If you're using different pumps a lot of times you're gonna want to put it down
in there, and kind of dry fit everything together.
So, I'm gonna screw this guy on, and show you that if I wanna do a dry run.
I'll cut like a little one inch stub,
because I want this thing to fit just perfectly tight on there.
So, I don't wanna cut the right size fitting otherwise it will be jammed in there, so
I'm gonna just do that little piece, I can pop it out easily.
Now I'm gonna put a check valve inside here for
those of you who don't know what a check valve is.
It's a one way valve so I can push water through it,
I can send it up to the waterfall, which is elevated above the, the skimmer.
And if you wanna do any maintenance to the pond, you shut the pump off.
All the water that's in that elevated spot,
the waterfall filter is gonna wanna rush backwards, and rush back into the pond.
Now two things can happen there.
A, you can get dirty water back washing into the pond.
And or, you can have the water that's inside the waterfall filter flow back and
overflow the pond, and so the one way valve is a solution to that.
So in here, you'll see I have this fit nice and tight, and
then I can drop it down in there and figure out what needs to happen next.
I've already done that, and I want this fitting to fit perfectly tight as well.
So, once again I got my little one inch stub, just for a dry run to test it out.
I don't know if, I don't know if, beat them apart with a hammer so there's,
there's our run it's like this.
I've already dropped it down in there, and it fits just perfectly, so
this is how we'll glue it together.
Now one important element that you gonna need is this is our,
our breakaway union, it's our pump union.
It allows you to have this piece screwed into the helix skimmer, it's stationary.
And then when you wanna do maintenance, or work on the pump for
any reason, you can undo this union.
It has a little gasket right here, that helps keep it water tight, and
then you can pull the pump right out.
Cuz this is gonna be attached to this.
Now this is the last little measurement we have to do.
But, I'm gonna glue this whole assembly together and
install the pump union down in there, and then we'll make that
final measurement together and I'll show you how to do that as well.
All right, so I showed you the tip on how to do the dry run.
You cut that little stub and you can push the fittings all together tight.
Now the trick is to make sure when you glue it together, it remains tight like that.
So that's the next little trick, I'm gonna show you, gonna take this thing apart.
Now we're here's our stubs right here.
Gonna take these guys apart.
This one's in here pretty good.
There we go.
This guy comes apart.
So we're not gonna glue with these.
These are just for setting up the stage.
Now, here's my tape measure.
What you wanna do is, if you look on the inside of this you'll
see there's a little line, and that's gonna be where the pipe will dead end right there.
So, I can measure right here I've got an inch in inch and three eighths, inch and a half.
Let's say inch and a half, yeah.
This one, I'll measure.
We have inch and three eighths.
This one, I measure, inch and three eighths.
So, what I'm gonna do, is, I'm not gonna cut it exactly tight.
What I'll do is, I'll take an eighth off of each side.
And then I'll cut it right there.
So, let's say I have an inch and, inch and three eighths on each side, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna want an inch and a quarter on each side.
So I'm gonna, I got my two fittings here, I already cut them.
We got two and a half inches, okay?
So, we're gonna get the glue and primer, and we'll putting this guy together.
Now my pet peeve is kinda I guess I've explained a couple pet peeves along this
series, but
when it comes to gluing stuff I really don't like having glue spilled all over the place.
So, we'll do a nice clean primer like that.
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a check valve has glue and primer all over it.
So what I'll do is, I will come through here.
I'm kind of tilting it here.
And I don't have anything on the outside.
Come here, do the same on this guy.
Now when I put them together, you
apply pressure, give a twist, hold it in there, and then you can kind of twist it
like this a little bit and see if you have any, glue that wants to drip.
Well on these really tight connections when I wanna put them together perfectly tight,
you wanna make sure you hold that.
It doesn't back out at all, because if it backs out a little bit,
it'll definitely increase the size of your fitting.
Just wanna take off a little extra glue there.
And I'm gonna do this other one.
Where did it go there we are.
So, on this check valve, it has a one way, it shows the direction piece, so
you wanna make sure you have that thing going the right direction.
That'll glue there, so this guy's come in here.
See I'm gonna move this piece.
If I start glueing right here, it's gonna drip all over that, and
I'd have to redo the whole thing, cuz it would annoy me.
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Push together and hold.
Okay, so this piece is gonna go into here.
I'll put my top 90 on.
I'm gonna double check my directional, that my flow is gonna be shooting out like that.
This guy's gluing on and going out through the back of the skimmer.
So this is my next fitting.
[SOUND] Now, now I'm tilting it this way.
If I was tilting it the other way, if I go to put this on.
It would go dripping down, and that would bother me.
I'd have to go in and redo it.
So now I'm kind of holding it this way.
Same with this guy.
I'm gonna set it at an angle like this.
And I don't have a lot on here.
I'll always tap this off like that.
See that?
We don't want it everywhere.
Okay.
Do a couple spins in there.
They're touching that's what I want.
Okay, so that piece is ready to get, gone on to here.
This doesn't need teflon tape cuz it's underwater.
However I'm gonna put some teflon tape on there,
cuz it kind of tightens it pretty well, cuz when I go to throw this on here.
Sometimes it'll be a little loosey goosey.
If I put the teflon tape on there, then it'll be holding it steady.
There is a right way and a wrong way, to put on a teflon tape.
I'm going in a clockwise direction.
I'll go three or four spins on here.
The way, you know, it's the right way is if you go to tighten the fitting on to this,
it's gonna make the teflon tape go on even tighter.
Now, if it was the wrong direction and
I went to screw a fitting onto it, it would unravel it a little bit.
So, there is a right and a wrong way.
So, we'll screw this guy on like so.
Now it's, it's rigid on there.
It's not all loosey goosey.
So now, we wanna glue this on.
It's gonna come straight over the top.
I don't want it at an angle like that.
I can't make an adjustment later.
I don't want to have, I don't have a whole lot of room there to play, so.
It's gonna be straight over the top,
now the trick is to do it without spilling glue everywhere.
Another little trick tip two is, if you're too messy with your glue and
you go to glue this fitting on the top,
I glued this check valve at an angle like this and held it together sideways.
If you glue it on the top and you're real messy with your glue,
sometimes the glue will drip down inside of their and clog that valve.
See that's why, another reason why you wanna be real clean with your glue, okay?
You can still hear that thing moving around in there, so it's good.
So, I'm tilting my pump, so I don't drip down the side of it.
Downward tilt, so I don't drip backwards.
Onto my valve.
Okay, so
So what I'm gonna do is.
Give that push on here and twist.
You can tell it's a right angle, right above the pump.
It's touching on both sides, so it's good to go.
Slap the screen back on there, [NOISE] like so.
The next part we're gonna do is, I'm gonna reach down in there and
put this union in here.
I'll show you how it connects together, but
first let me throw a little teflon tape on it.
Remember, I'm going clockwise.
Three or four wraps.
Okay, we're ready for install, let me move this out of the way.
So I'm gonna break this part, and I'll reach down.
So, that kind just needs to be hand tighten, cuz it's below water level.
Pull these feet off.
Those won't be necessary.
Now put this gat back on for a measurement.
So, now you see it fits in there nice and even.
They're all lined up.
I'm gonna set this guy up, so I have play, I can push the pump this way, or
I can push the pump this way, both ways.
And then I'll make my measurement for my final piece.
If I'm pushed against one side or
the other, I don't have any flexibility in that piece of pipe that I cut.
So, I wanna be able to have some flexibility for pulling the pump out.
Now here's the next little trick I'll do, what I'm gonna show you is,
I'm gonna measure between these guys.
About two and a quarter.
Two inches.
Okay, so we're gonna call it two inches.
I'm gonna pop this guy out.
Pop our union off and measure inside this guy, inch and three eighths.
Measure inside this guy.
Inch and a half.
So, just under three inches.
I'll, and will give me, plus my two inches.
So, I'll cut a five inch piece, I'll glue it all together, and
I'll drop it back in there and it'll fit like a dream.
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Check all the sides and once again, I'm gonna take these burrs off.
Remember we wanna hold that for just a second, so it doesn't back off.
Now to the other side.
Don't forget that twist at the end.
And now we can drop it in place and tighten up this union, so this union pops back like
this, so this is how you're gonna service it, so you'd be able to reach down in there.
Break free this union, pump, pull the whole pump out, take it out for servicing,
and then drop it back in.
So, let's go ahead and install it right now.
You'll come in at an angle, give it a little twist.
You can see it matches up like a dream.
All right, there you have it.
It's good to go, I'm just gonna put stuff back together, and
then we'll be off to the next video.
If you have any questions about, how we did this please leave them in the Comment
section, we'll get to every single one of them.
I'm Eric Triplett, The Pond Digger.
Thanks for watching.
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