I should preface this with letting you know I'm a first class tinkerer.
I like Ocean Nutrition Algae Clips. With their wide mouth, they perfectly fit the folded up piece of algae. I've only found one LFS (in Pennsylvania) that carries them (although I haven't looked very hard), and every trip I'd make there (and for me it's a trip) I'd pick up a two pack. This trip to this PA store was a yearly pilgrimage with a fellow club member, but he has since moved on, and I haven't gone in a couple years. However, I had gone enough in the past, and had eight clips, that I built a holder for these clips that hung in my canopy:
Well, about six months ago, one of the white plastic pieces that offered the "spring" to the clip broke off.
No big deal....I had seven more....and I'd keep this one for when another broke, I could make on good one. Well when it rains, it pours.....they continued to break. I wanted to see if I could come up with a fix.....and here it is:
I took a piece of 1/2 inch CPVC pipe and cut a grove in it.
I first attempted to use my 12 inch compound miter saw to cut this pipe at about 1/4 inch slices, and actually cut three of these pieces, that immediately got shot off into the clutter of my shop.
After spending about ten minutes searching for these pieces, and only finding one, I reverted back to the old-school miter box to cut the rest of the pieces.
These little pieces simply replace the white plastic hinges that broke, and, I must say, work fantistic.
And there you go, a ten dollar fix for a three dollar algae clip! But it was fun.
I like Ocean Nutrition Algae Clips. With their wide mouth, they perfectly fit the folded up piece of algae. I've only found one LFS (in Pennsylvania) that carries them (although I haven't looked very hard), and every trip I'd make there (and for me it's a trip) I'd pick up a two pack. This trip to this PA store was a yearly pilgrimage with a fellow club member, but he has since moved on, and I haven't gone in a couple years. However, I had gone enough in the past, and had eight clips, that I built a holder for these clips that hung in my canopy:
Well, about six months ago, one of the white plastic pieces that offered the "spring" to the clip broke off.
No big deal....I had seven more....and I'd keep this one for when another broke, I could make on good one. Well when it rains, it pours.....they continued to break. I wanted to see if I could come up with a fix.....and here it is:
I took a piece of 1/2 inch CPVC pipe and cut a grove in it.
I first attempted to use my 12 inch compound miter saw to cut this pipe at about 1/4 inch slices, and actually cut three of these pieces, that immediately got shot off into the clutter of my shop.
After spending about ten minutes searching for these pieces, and only finding one, I reverted back to the old-school miter box to cut the rest of the pieces.
These little pieces simply replace the white plastic hinges that broke, and, I must say, work fantistic.
And there you go, a ten dollar fix for a three dollar algae clip! But it was fun.
