Pool Vac and Leaf Trap for Bestway 10' pool

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Keep an eye out for my upcoming skimmer set up for these pools. Will be posting soon! This is my setup for vacuuming my little Bestway 10' pool. Many pools use the same thread-on inlet/outlet covers though, so it will work with a lot of them. The tiny little filter the pool comes with clogs with grass or leaves too easily, so I'd only vacuum a little bit and the suction would be gone. The leaf trap *greatly* increases the amount of stuff you can suck up without needing to stop and clean the filter. The leaf trap is also crucially important if you are removing your filter cartridge and vacuuming to waste (which is the only way I've ever gotten rid of dead algae after an algicide treatment), as the grass and leaves can clog your impeller if you take the filter cartridge out. This design is largely interchangeable. The conical flange on the inlet/outlet adapter and both halves of the leaf trap are identical. So any hose adapter fitting can be attached to any location. Also, the leaf trap just attaches with garden hose threads, so you can just skip it if you want and attach the hose directly to the vacuum head. You can run the leaf-trap on the handle like me, or you can print the short hose adapters and connect the leaf trap right to the pool wall instead, your choice. The plug fitting is useful if you have a dual-inlet setup like I do... just plug one of them. I also us the plug if vacuuming to waste so I can detach the filter's return hose without losing water. Here is your print list: vacuum head (1x) leaf trap front (1x) leaf trap back (1x) inlet outlet adapter (I printed one for each inlet/outlet on the pool) plug (print 1 if you have dual-inlets, print one more if you want to vacuum to waste) basket (1x) short male inlet (1x, 2x if you want the leaf-trap off the handle) nut (print 1x for each inlet/outlet adapter and 2x for the leaf-trap) short female outlet (only needed for using the leaf-trap off of the handle) leaf trap inlet/outlet 2.0 (1x each for on-handle leaf trap configuration) All threads are for US garden hoses, and the handle is set up for 1" PVC pipe. You'll need two hose washers for this setup.