"Tristan" wrote in message
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Oh, goodie a place for Roy Tristan to go to once rec.ponds.moderated is up
and all the other aquaia groups follow suit and go moderated, at least
Roy Tristan will not be a homeless yankee carpet bagger like he was when
his last woeking gal dumped him along I-40



Aqua Cloear hob filters have a bad problem of being noisey right out
of the box anymore. Usually when a pump of an y kind makes a noise
especialy a AC its due to noise and a leaking air inlet water tube
etc. But it seems in their haste to put out filters and pumps they are
skipping a step and that is cleaning off the mold flash from the
injection moded parts.

Aqua Clears are pretty much my stable of most use items as they are
work horses and easy to work on and filter media of all kinds can be
used so they are very versitle and cheao. Now what I do is pull
impeller and clean it up good from any flash, and make sure it is aboe
to rotate back and forth when the impeller is intsalled nthe shaft
with relative ease. If its sticky it will also make noise until it
wears some and gets looser. I also add a drop of silicone to the
impeller to shaft at the clutch mech, and allow it to setup for a day
before using. All it takes is a drop. This cushions any noise like
grinding you hear and by the itme the silicone comes off the impeller
to shaft is all seated in and quiet. Beats having togo without a
filter or hearing that noise. Hagen (Aqua Clear) is about as usefull
as screen doors on a subnarine when it comes to customer satisfaction.
Try and get em to honor even a 25 cent item without having to return
that item and proofs of purchase etc and still jump through hoops.
Their canned reply is take it back to where yu got it for another or a
refund. That is all fine and well but if you mail ordered it that can
add up a bunch of $$ easy as wellas time. So just clean up that
impeller of excessive flash and make sure it is free to rotate and
move back and forth on that shaft it snaps onto on the magnet and if
necessary add a dot of silicone......it works.

The intermittent noise you mention sure sounds like air getting sucked
in or that impeller is sticking from moolding flash.


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:10:00 GMT, "Susan"
wrote:

I had a Aqua Clear filter I bought for my 10 gallon freshwater. When
I
plugged it in the first time every few minutes it made a grinding
noise. I
took the pump apart and did everything I knew to fix it. Still made
the
noise. Finally took it back. I just assumed it was a defective motor
and
couldn't be fixed??

Susan
"KurtG" wrote in message
.. .
Joe wrote:
Finally, what's with the taunting messages on this listserv?


Just our pet troll.





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