I had to find a fix. I was losing 30 or more gallons from the system per day....
So my journey began. The water was dripping from the left side of the IBC's valve. This had me thinking it must be a crack or leak on that side. Maybe I popped a screw through it while putting on the cladding. Maybe the time it spent in the sun before i got around to building weekend the liner. The questions abounded....
So, what else was I to do? The screws were removed one by one.
As I peeled back the paneling, I kept waiting for all of the water to cascade upon me.
I gingerly peeled it back, and lo and behold, not a drip was in site.
Convinced that the leak was on this side, I begrudgingly made the decision to remove the insulating foam. You see, this was grossly over engineered to begin with, using a strong duct tape on all the seams, to build up multiple layers of thin foam until I had a thickness around 1.5 inches....
So I began, still waiting for a drenching waterfall to gush.
I finally peeled off the last layer, and water began sheeting down the side of the tank. And, in hindsight, I would not have built this thing so that a screw would hit the liner. I did the math, I did the calculations. Things weren't adding up, no screw could have hit the liner. By Jove, it hit me, the UNISEAL for the SLO.
There it was, staring at me, right in plain sight the whole time.
Sure enough, upon inspection, I found that somehow, the pipe going through the seal had migrated and changed position, and sure enough, the seal wasn't making good contact on the lower portion. I had to think quick! AHA!
a scrap piece of wood. It would have to do the trick. A few mallet taps later, and a jammed in piece of wood, and voila, good as new.
The moral of the story.....check the fish tank exit first!
The second moral of the story: KISS, I overdid it with the duct tape.
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