The Miracle Tank

[najer]

Me- no price for a stress free life!

And I don't need "wife" receipts! :)

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Cat spam

 

[najer]

Cat spam

Cat tummy fur can be rubbed any which way, I miss my Charlie cat! :)

 

[sfin52]

@Fin hows cassie holding up.

 

[fishguy242]

OK ALL..one from the way back machine 2017 :oops: ;)found in old emails:rolleyes:here goes

 

[najer]

UPDATE TIME: Neighbor came to me this afternoon with a chainsaw, asked if I had experience with one...???...little confused, I said yeah, I've used one a time or two...asked if I could cut the tree up that was blocking our entrance since NOBODY with the HOA was returning calls...so I did just that...fast forward 2 hours, same neighbor pulls up to my back door, which is open for airflow through the house...asks me to come give him a hand...walk outside he says this is for cutting the tree out of the way...and low and behold there is a Honda generator in his back seat...its an older one, and I need to replace the fuel line...which I happen to have some handy...he filled the tank up and on 4th pull it fired up...H*#L YEAH!!! Still have to replace fuel line, will happen in about 30 minutes, then the refrigerator and the tank will be back on line (minus lights of course)...he had a much larger generator for himself that I more than graciously wen t and help him unload off his truck...loving my little close knit community right now ;Woot...the bad part of the update...may be as much as 2 weeks before power is restored...

PS...Im the big boy in the green shirt ;Hilarious

I have thought about this all day, you have no idea how happy this made me feel this morning! :)

 

[Fin]

@Fin hows cassie holding up.

She has really been a trooper. Behaving much better than expected. Sleeps a lot.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Ok, so while thinking on a conf call that about made me go to sleep. I need to clean out the fish barn so I have room for the 7’ frag tank. I have a ton of stuff in there to make diy rocks. The problem is the 2-3 months it has to cure before use. Well, sometimes the ph drops to 8.3 before then, but we will say 2-3 months.

If I was to make the rock and add in some acid while it soaked it may speed that up some?????The issue is the lye in the mix is high ph. Vinegar helps shorten the time by about a month, but it takes a lot of visage to do that.

Does anyone think that is possible? If so, what acid?

Just trying to get the 4 bags of white Portland cement, 8 bags of crushed oyster shells, 6 bags of sand and 2 bags of water softener salt out of the way lol. Wow, listing that out, that is a lot of rocks I could make.

 

[fishguy242]

Ok, so while thinking on a conf call that about made me go to sleep. I need to clean out the fish barn so I have room for the 7’ frag tank. I have a ton of stuff in there to make diy rocks. The problem is the 2-3 months it has to cure before use. Well, sometimes the ph drops to 8.3 before then, but we will say 2-3 months.

If I was to make the rock and add in some acid while it soaked it may speed that up some?????The issue is the lye in the mix is high ph. Vinegar helps shorten the time by about a month, but it takes a lot of visage to do that.

Does anyone think that is possible? If so, what acid?

Just trying to get the 4 bags of white Portland cement, 8 bags of crushed oyster shells, 6 bags of sand and 2 bags of water softener salt out of the way lol. Wow, listing that out, that is a lot of rocks I could make.

uneducated guess "citric" but would stick with vinegar jmo ;)

 

[najer]

uneducated guess "citric" but would stick with vinegar jmo ;)

Interesting, I am going to swap to citric when I can find it. :)

 

[Eagle_Steve]

uneducated guess "citric" but would stick with vinegar jmo ;)

I was thinking that. Citric acid powder is cheap and I could make it be cheaper than vinegar. Just wondering about Muriatic acid or something else, as it is used for dry rock baths. Was thinking couple weeks in RODI then hit with acid for a day or so and then RODI again till ph drops. Using RODI is key anyways. It has a low ph to begin with, so that helps.

Now my brain ya kicked on and I am wondering about co2 injection to speed up the reduction of ph from the lye lol.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Interesting, I am going to swap to citric when I can find it. :)

I clean all of my equipment with it. Works great and typically does not harm softer plastics. For example, none of my MPs have ever seen vinegar and I have all kinds of models and generations. Not one single compromised magnet in any of them.

 

[brett_schn]

Well looks like I can’t pour all my money into my fish tank :/. My truck has been acting up. Been driving it wayyy to much more then it can handle. Oh well. Time to save for another truck that loves the many highway miles and has better then my current 6-10mpg average

 

[fishguy242]

just unsure how will it nutrialize??same w muriatic??now when i clean tubs or holding tanks w muriatic i give a baking soda rinse ;)

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Well looks like I can’t pour all my money into my fish tank :/. My truck has been acting up. Been driving it wayyy to much more then it can handle. Oh well. Time to save for another truck that loves the many highway miles and has better then my current 6-10mpg average

What kind of truck and what is it doing?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

just unsure how will it nutrialize??same w muriatic??now when i clean tubs or holding tanks w muriatic i give a baking soda rinse ;)

That’s where soaking in RODI for more time after and then doing water changes on top of that comes in. Dilution is a solution lol.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

That’s where soaking in RODI for more time after and then doing water changes on top of that comes in. Dilution is a solution lol.

Either way, I am doing nothing with the bags of stuff, so could try it and just document it. Worst case is the rock dissolves lol.

 

[brett_schn]

What kind of truck and what is it doing?

1998 f150. Been maintained super well it’s whole life but it’s been a fun truck on and off road lol. 122k on it. It’s been having some transmission issues shifting really hard and sometimes whining. 2 days ago I was sitting at a light and the engine just cut out. It started back up. I’m probably going to drop the fuel tank and put a new fuel pump and Change all the fuel filters soon even tho that just got done 2 years and 30,000 miles ago
Edit forgot to put that it’s the 4.6l triton and ford AOD tranny

 

[Eagle_Steve]

1998 f150. Been maintained super well it’s whole life but it’s been a fun truck on and off road lol. 122k on it. It’s been having some transmission issues shifting really hard and sometimes whining. 2 days ago I was sitting at a light and the engine just cut out. It started back up. I’m probably going to drop the fuel tank and put a new fuel pump and Change all the fuel filters soon even tho that just got done 2 years and 30,000 miles ago

4.6 truck? If so, you may have some gunk in the trans valve body (common issue) I have a 97 4.6 with 372k and it is a tank.

For the cutting out, any cel? Maybe pull codes to see if there is one pending. It starting back up does not sound like a fuel pump. Those pumps in those trucks are tough.

 

[najer]

1998 f150. Been maintained super well it’s whole life but it’s been a fun truck on and off road lol. 122k on it. It’s been having some transmission issues shifting really hard and sometimes whining. 2 days ago I was sitting at a light and the engine just cut out. It started back up. I’m probably going to drop the fuel tank and put a new fuel pump and Change all the fuel filters soon even tho that just got done 2 years and 30,000 miles ago
Edit forgot to put that it’s the 4.6l triton and ford AOD tranny

English person asks, so that is basically a filter off V8 or something right?! ;)