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needle valves
Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but
anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? |
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needle valves
Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but
anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, though I don't know how long it held up over the long term. If she's reading the newsgroup, maybe she'll give us an update. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but
anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, though I don't know how long it held up over the long term. If she's reading the newsgroup, maybe she'll give us an update. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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I tried the "Home Depot cheapo" valve setup and never could get it to work.
I got a real needle valve for about $20 plus shipping. Works great. Bob "LeighMo" wrote in message ... Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, though I don't know how long it held up over the long term. If she's reading the newsgroup, maybe she'll give us an update. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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I tried the "Home Depot cheapo" valve setup and never could get it to work.
I got a real needle valve for about $20 plus shipping. Works great. Bob "LeighMo" wrote in message ... Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, though I don't know how long it held up over the long term. If she's reading the newsgroup, maybe she'll give us an update. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid
Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, http://www.dlink.org/aqua/CO2.html This works fine for me. -- Thank You Dominic http://www.dlink.org/aqua |
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Someone here used a needle valve from Home Depot. I think it was Cichlid
Chick. It was brass, and only a couple of dollars. She said it worked fine, http://www.dlink.org/aqua/CO2.html This works fine for me. -- Thank You Dominic http://www.dlink.org/aqua |
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Greg Dalton wrote:
Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? I don't use a needle valve, I use a flow restrictor that I made by crushing a piece of 1/4" copper tubing with a hammer and anvil until it will just barely pass any CO2. It's similar to the capillary tube used to separate the high and low pressure sides in refrigeration. I adjust the actual bubble rate by adjusting the pressure at the regulator. It is *very* nonlinear; to increase the flow from 2 bubbles per second to 3, I might have to increase the regulator pressure by 10, and to get 4 bubbles per second might take 40 pounds. Best regards, Bob |
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Greg Dalton wrote:
Using Co2 tank and I can get some sort of slow bubbling with it but anyone got a cheap website or maybe a part from Lowe's that I can use for a needle valve?? I don't use a needle valve, I use a flow restrictor that I made by crushing a piece of 1/4" copper tubing with a hammer and anvil until it will just barely pass any CO2. It's similar to the capillary tube used to separate the high and low pressure sides in refrigeration. I adjust the actual bubble rate by adjusting the pressure at the regulator. It is *very* nonlinear; to increase the flow from 2 bubbles per second to 3, I might have to increase the regulator pressure by 10, and to get 4 bubbles per second might take 40 pounds. Best regards, Bob |
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