I turned my skimmer on after feeding this morning and it wouldnt turn on, do i took it apart and lost the impeller shaft behind the water heater... It just kapwinged out of my hands. Anyone know where the best place or cheapest to buy parts? Its a swc 120. It might need a new pump, it was clean when i took it apart...
Help please, lost a skimmer part!
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If no one here has a spare- Some impeller shafts can be bought at hobby shops- like the pegasus hobby shop in montclair
http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/a...uctd0jtcpas315pa5f4oeu2&search.x=0&search.y=0
http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/a...uctd0jtcpas315pa5f4oeu2&search.x=0&search.y=0
My pump is the needle wheel not the mesh wheel one btw. It think its a beast especially compared to my last skimmer. I was getting daily cup filling of dark green, and no nitrates or phosphates. Took a while to dial it in, but i would definitely recommend it to anyone with a 50 or less gallon tank. Heavily stocked of course, i think it can handle up to 90 lightly stocked.
I had to order my ceramic shaft from Canada it cost more to ship then it did to buy and after all that the pump still didn't work right. I think if you can fit a bubble blaster you will like it. I think I'm going to go with the tunze. Everyone says it supper quite and that's a big thing for me. Every other thing I have used from tunze was very well made and I'm sure there skimmer pumps are also. Good luck with your skimmer I hope to here good things
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You can't beat the quality for the price! They are very comparable to the SWC line but SOOOO much better in every aspect! They have excellent pumps that are very energy efficient and a great bumper to bumper Warranty on the whole skimmer that can't be beat. They designed their own pumps and many other skimmer companies have tried to get them to sell their pumps to them for their own line of skimmers but CAD Lights knows what they have is great and won't sell to the competition.
I know where you can by atman pumps in SoCal but they're expensive AND notorious for having continuous problems so you'd be spending a lot of money only to risk having the exact same problem again.
I had the same problem with a SWC-160. I bought a new impeller (which cost almost as much as the pump would've) and it didn't end up being my problem. I still ended up having to replace the pump and ended up having issues with it again in the future. In the end, I wished I would've just replaced the entire skimmer with a CAD Lights one.
You can't beat the quality for the price! They are very comparable to the SWC line but SOOOO much better in every aspect! They have excellent pumps that are very energy efficient and a great bumper to bumper Warranty on the whole skimmer that can't be beat. They designed their own pumps and many other skimmer companies have tried to get them to sell their pumps to them for their own line of skimmers but CAD Lights knows what they have is great and won't sell to the competition.
I know where you can by atman pumps in SoCal but they're expensive AND notorious for having continuous problems so you'd be spending a lot of money only to risk having the exact same problem again.
I had the same problem with a SWC-160. I bought a new impeller (which cost almost as much as the pump would've) and it didn't end up being my problem. I still ended up having to replace the pump and ended up having issues with it again in the future. In the end, I wished I would've just replaced the entire skimmer with a CAD Lights one.
