Hello all,
I've been kicking around the idea of a diy skimmer for some time. I was originally going to build a bk mini clone like mojo and troylee built but cutting and shaping the 2.5" acrylic didn't work out all that well. Since I already had a bunch of material that I purchased for the bk clone I thought I'd try to do something. Here is what I came up with. The skimmer will have pretty much the same dimensions as the bk mini. Around 22" high, 6" collection cup with a 4" neck, the base of the body will be 6" and 3" tall on top of that I have made a cone that is 12" tall, 6" at the base and 4" at the top. I will be running a psk2500 with the red demon pin wheel internally just like the bk. I don't know much about skimmers and my plan was just to copy the bk build. Now that that has changed I thought I should get some feedback before I get too carried away. Like I said I'm far from any kind of expert so any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here are a couple of pics of how I made the cone. Here is my mold.
And my template for the acrylic.
And my cone after it came out. It looks a little weird but its the residue from the wax paper I used while it was in the oven.
Please let me know what you think.
I've been kicking around the idea of a diy skimmer for some time. I was originally going to build a bk mini clone like mojo and troylee built but cutting and shaping the 2.5" acrylic didn't work out all that well. Since I already had a bunch of material that I purchased for the bk clone I thought I'd try to do something. Here is what I came up with. The skimmer will have pretty much the same dimensions as the bk mini. Around 22" high, 6" collection cup with a 4" neck, the base of the body will be 6" and 3" tall on top of that I have made a cone that is 12" tall, 6" at the base and 4" at the top. I will be running a psk2500 with the red demon pin wheel internally just like the bk. I don't know much about skimmers and my plan was just to copy the bk build. Now that that has changed I thought I should get some feedback before I get too carried away. Like I said I'm far from any kind of expert so any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here are a couple of pics of how I made the cone. Here is my mold.
And my template for the acrylic.
And my cone after it came out. It looks a little weird but its the residue from the wax paper I used while it was in the oven.
Please let me know what you think.