calcium reactor gurus i need your help

[duke62]

my calcium reactor is leaking from the 3/8 nylon nipple attached to the pump that goes into first chamber, and no one on LI has a 3/8 threaded nipple nylon..i know i cant use any type of metal nipple so the guy at home depot can make something up but using a 3/8 hose connector and a hose.can i do it like this temporarily till i find a 3/8 nipple

 

[bklynreef]

do you have a choice in an emergency situation?

 

[btldreef]

did you try cleaning the threads and using teflon tape or silicone? or is the fitting cracked?
picture of the fitting ...?? i might have it.

 

[mbg75]

Can u post a pic of what u need?
Male or female threaded?

Maybe a nylon comp fitting or john guest fitting would work?

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[duke62]

i can send you a pic.pm me your cell phone.its a double threaded male 3/8 nipple fitting.what i did for now is use 2 barbed fittings and used 1/2 vinyle tubing.for some reason the nipple just wont screw tight.it just spins.i dont see a crack anywhere

 

[duke62]

Wow i dont know what the hell is leaking now.i tightened the new fittings in turned on the pump 10 minutes later it freaking still leaking.i spent all day trying to stop this leak and finding something that will work and now its leaking somewhere within the pump..i will never buy used equipment again.this thing leaked from a chamger which i fixed from the fitting and now from the freaking pump

 

[btldreef]

from the pump??? could be the seal. i feel your pain. i had purchased a used mrc-1 and i had tried to run it and in the first 5 minutes i had a leak...then another and another...until i took it all completely apart and siliconed every fitting.

 

[jerl77]

get a dosing pump and never worry about this again

 

[duke62]

that doesnt help me now jeremy.i bought this like 5 months ago and finally set it up and all this crap is happening.i put a o-ring now on the fitting maybe this will work.so far so good.but i just did it.it dont start leaking out for 10 or 20 min

 

[jerl77]

where is it leaking from? got to be some kind of gaskets there?

 

[mbg75]

Need a pic.

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[duke62]

i think the o ring did the trick.been like 15 minutes and no leak.now i have to find the male threaded to male 3/8 nipple.

 

[duke62]

Nope freaking leak is still there aaahhhhhhh

 

[MIKE NY]

....it will be very hard to find a 3/8 threaded nylon nipple, but try calling a few plumbing supplies like Blackman etc...did you try teflon tape on the threads? The one draw back to a reactor is the amount of water pressure generated because of the volume of water going in from the pump with little coming out so everything has to be tight.

 

[duke62]

Yeah i tried calling blackman they were the only plumbing supply open on a sunday and they do not have it.i think now im going to need a new pump and the nipple.i tightened the crap out of it with a 12 in adjustable just now and it still leaking out..its a drip every 10 seconds.should have just bought a new setup.cost me 250 for the reactor 50 for the valve and now a hundred for a new pump.could have bought a new one

 

[duke62]

order the piece today.the guy at MTC said its impossible that the pump is leaking.what i did wrong was when the nipple goes into the pump the threads need to be siliconed then tightened.hopefully this is the problem.piece cost me 7 bucks plus 12 dollars for shipping