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Old 11-10-2006, 11:40 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Old 11-18-2006, 11:17 AM   #27 (permalink)
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powerhead mod

I did the maxijet mod to a 1200.. came out sweet.. the only thing is trying to do a mod to keep it from going backwards.. i tried a plastic piece but that got chopped up.. ahh well.. anyone else with this problem? also i get a vibration noise from the pump every now and again.. i cleaned it and it still does it..
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Old 11-18-2006, 11:58 AM   #28 (permalink)
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I did it to a pair of 900's. I had that problem originally. The vibration noise for me, was the shaft not being exaactly straight. The problem with spinning backwards was what I had more trouble with. I made the cross-brace out of acrylic, like a few peole did on the RC thread, with like a tooth hanging in toward the prop. What worked best for me was shaping the tooth like the prop, same angle or at least close (\\) . That way, if the prop was to hit it going the right direction, it would push it down toward the motor. If it hit going the wrong direction, it would stop the prop, which kinda causes the motor to suck it downward. Then I made the distance between the prop and the tooth, such that it barely clears while running. Make sense?

This worked really well for me. But I still ended up taking them of the wave timer, because even though it would stop and change direction every time, eventually the prop would come loose on the shaft. Since I took them off the wave timer, they have been running great with no issues. HTH
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Old 11-18-2006, 02:59 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Would be great if the details would be brought over here....
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Old 11-18-2006, 07:51 PM   #30 (permalink)
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a friend of mines ordered a kit from mjmods online for his 1200. he basically hated it. he said, " parts didnt fit and i had to do mod the mod. shouldve just bought a seio".
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Old 11-19-2006, 05:11 PM   #31 (permalink)
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yeah.. the biggest thing for me was the o-ring.. i didn't know what people were talking about till i couldn't figure out why it wouldn't seat properly.. tell you what though.. this thing seriously pushes water BIG TIME! going to try to fix the shaft on it so we shall see.. also going to try to make a magnet mod for it so it doesn't drop off the glass
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Old 11-20-2006, 11:53 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Made a mod today! will post pictures tomorrow or next week.. I went to a retailer that had a jacked up magfloat (the pad on the inside was kind of falling off) for 16 bucks for the large one too!! so what i did was sand down the back part of it and superglued the bracket that the suction cups attaches to it! and viola! let ya know how it goes!
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Old 12-01-2006, 10:32 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I made two MJ1200 mods. I decided to put only one in my 75g - it moves that much water! I made the shroud myself. I would now probably order one from MJ mods for the more polished look as my wife doesn't like seeing drilled PVC pipe in there.
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