Macaroni tubing
Hours: 0.9 | Posted in PlumbingMore time today trying to wrangle the dang selector-filter tube into place. I put a swivel elbow on the filter — the vertical of the elbow and the outlet of the selector are misaligned by about 3/8″, which means that the tube needs to have a joggle in it…maddeningly difficult to bend, as the short, short bit of tubing (only about 4″) provides very little leverage for bending, and it’s just too short to fit in the lever-type bender. I had one piece nearly right, just a touch too long…cut it down and it was too short. Argh! I almost had another one fitting well, when it was time to leave for the evening’s entertainment. I’ve probably used up 6-7 feet of tubing for this 5″ distance. Simply amazing.
Note to future builders installing Andair selectors along with Andair pump/filter assemblies: don’t blindly use the measurements in the Andair drawings! Set it up and think hard about this tubing run, and you might find it easier to use the tubing run to adjust the fore/aft position of the pump. If I had set the pump 3/8″ farther forward (which would fit just fine), I could have used the swivel elbow and a nice, easy piece of straight tubing. Live and learn…
