Still leaks
Hello everyone,
I just got an old Eheim 2028 bought used on ebay for not much.
It was used in a salt aquarium, I can't describe the mess...
After many hours and with the help of CLR, I removed most of the salt after dismantling every parts of the canister and its head. So here is the story, after I removed everything and lub with vaseline bought at my local drug store, I have reassemble the whole machine and beleive me on this every o-ring has been lubed, with not too much vaseline...
Any how, I plug the two hose connector valve and open the valve to fill up the canister. After two minutes max, and the filter was never powered on, I got water spreading on the floor. So the whole head cavities got filled up in less than 2 minutes, that I am sure.
So to conclude the filter that I bought which was initially leaking still does!
So here I am, what should I do!
Replace all the o-rings with new ones, use another type of lub or simply burn my canister .
P.S.: I must say that I one of the little translucid plastic hook holding the clear outflow tube (the one with the red marks for flow rate) was broken by my big and stupid thum, but still it seem to hold fine... (I case of dought I could always surround with part with silicone...but I don't think it needs it)
Cheers
And thanks for your help which is greatly needed.