Long shot but what the heck. Any plumbers or plumbing geniuses here?
I need something other than the jank shown in the photos to support my return line. I came up with this jank- galvanized split ring hangers, 3/8" galvanized bolt, and stainless steel lock nuts (nylon in them). What I have does the job very well (you can just about do pull ups on everything). But the problem is maintaining a nice vertical. There's just waay too many degrees of freedom to adjust here. Once I tighten those lock nuts, it's pretty decent, but almost impossible to get close enough vertical. The return line traces the edge of the tank, and you can see it's off several hairs from the vertical line the tank forms. Having it even slightly off bothers me visually. (Perfectionism/OCD, I guess- call me crazy, but verticals should be vertical! It's also a pain to reassemble and adjust, which hopefully won't happen often but would be nice to know it's easier to take up and down. This crazy rigging was also 100 times more time consuming than anything I bargained for- DIY sins.)
I'm pretty sure I need to attach to the stand leg and not the tank, etc.
Any plumbers here with ingenious ideas?
I have searched far and wide, including wondering how I might use things like T PVC and other "guides" to create a sleeve that the return runs thru to get it placed right.
The other thing that's happening is holding the pipe so that the pump is actually just a hair off the bottom of the sump, hanging by the PVC pipe, as well as holding in the right place such that the return going up and over into the tank doesn't rest on the rim of the tank. The return line is being held right where it needs to be in all directions (stand off from the tank, etc.).
BTW, I don't see any way to use a bulk head going into the tank, given the overflow box and the small amount of space left.
I need something other than the jank shown in the photos to support my return line. I came up with this jank- galvanized split ring hangers, 3/8" galvanized bolt, and stainless steel lock nuts (nylon in them). What I have does the job very well (you can just about do pull ups on everything). But the problem is maintaining a nice vertical. There's just waay too many degrees of freedom to adjust here. Once I tighten those lock nuts, it's pretty decent, but almost impossible to get close enough vertical. The return line traces the edge of the tank, and you can see it's off several hairs from the vertical line the tank forms. Having it even slightly off bothers me visually. (Perfectionism/OCD, I guess- call me crazy, but verticals should be vertical! It's also a pain to reassemble and adjust, which hopefully won't happen often but would be nice to know it's easier to take up and down. This crazy rigging was also 100 times more time consuming than anything I bargained for- DIY sins.)
I'm pretty sure I need to attach to the stand leg and not the tank, etc.
Any plumbers here with ingenious ideas?
I have searched far and wide, including wondering how I might use things like T PVC and other "guides" to create a sleeve that the return runs thru to get it placed right.
The other thing that's happening is holding the pipe so that the pump is actually just a hair off the bottom of the sump, hanging by the PVC pipe, as well as holding in the right place such that the return going up and over into the tank doesn't rest on the rim of the tank. The return line is being held right where it needs to be in all directions (stand off from the tank, etc.).
BTW, I don't see any way to use a bulk head going into the tank, given the overflow box and the small amount of space left.
