Austin made calcium reactor

[discuspro]

Anyone make a calcium reactor from parts all found in Austin, or most?

I've got a bit of 4" I.D. clear acrylic tube from Regal. Looking at a P.M. type reactor it looks like all I would need is the plumbing and pump. The acrylic that I don't have but need is the top round stuff like in this pic:

http://myweb.stedwards.edu/dholden/calc.jpg

[dark8nge1]

Why does it need to be round? I made my reactor from with a square top, acutally its a dual chamber and all square.

[matt]

You don't really need circles, as darketc... said, but it's not hard to make circles. If you have anything that's the size circle you need, (like the lid off a different reactor) you can tape it to a piece of acrylic with double sided tape and flushtrim around it on a router table.

Reactors are pretty simple to make. I make a box under the tube so that the fittings don't have to go through the tube, a common leak point.

[discuspro]

I tried a square top and it leaked under pressure, I probably didn't do it right.