The plumbing has begun!
I spent several hours yesterday running around looking for some fittings I was missing and was reminded how fail the big 4 hardware stores are, being Lowe's, Home Depot, Home Hardware and Rona. Their selection of 1 inch PVC fittings is terrible. I didn't find exactly what I wanted, but enough to get by.
I've never done this before and unfortunately I don't have a laser guided compound miter saw for those precision flush cuts, just my semi calibrated eyeball and a hacksaw.
Everything is friction fitted at the moment, so I can really look it over before committing to glue. The SP4 manual recommends attaching it to flexible tube to, so I tried some tubing that just slips over 1 inch PVC pipe to connect the pump but it's way too rigid to maneuver, so I'm just going to pipe the return pump and see if vibration will be an issue. I don't really want to reduce the output diameter unless I have to.
Sidenote:
I put together the Bubble Magus Curve 5 but since the instructions are terrible and difficult to understand I'm not sure I did it right because I seem to have a left over tube. To the Chinese: please hire an English speaking person to write your manuals and not rely on Google translate!
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