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05-27-2007, 12:57 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 28
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 |  Acrylic
So I read every forum I could find and every web site I could find on DIY tank add ons. I am pretty handy with woodworking so I started with a ~185g plywood, glass & acrylic tank. That project went down without a hitch, mostly due to the glass and acrylic being precut to my needs. Now I built a 120 g/hr overflow box for my 29g out of acrylic. This is no easy task if you have never worked with acrylic before. Straight cuts are difficult to acomplish and are 100% nessicary to create a working overflow. Now, it can be done with a little patients and alot of errors but for any new DIY'ers, be ready to fail a few times!!! But it is also very rewarding learning a new skill and seeing it function in one of your great loves (yes I mean your reef tank). I will post some pictures as my projects become fruitful. _________ -R 2 maroon clowns, 3 bubble tip anemones, 3 emerald crabs, 1 coral banded shrimp, 12 astrea snails, 4 mexican turbo snails, 2 ricordia yuma, 2 purple mushroom ricordia, 2 small zoanthid frags, 8 red legged hermits, 1 flame scallop, 1 watchman goby, gonoporia, sun ployps, yellow polyps, star polyps, galaxea 29g bowfront, 10g sump, 20g fuge, 250W MH, 6 blue LED, 6 white LED, 2 65w power compact Actinic, DIY overflow / skimmer The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful  | 
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05-27-2007, 08:17 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by mad_kangaroo  But it is also very rewarding learning a new skill and seeing it function in one of your great loves (yes I mean your reef tank). I will post some pictures as my projects become fruitful. | Oh yes, post those pics. Am looking forward to seeing them.
I find any action or interaction with the tank and it systems rewarding. - especially when it works. 
Even in mundane tasks, such as water changing, testing, cleaning, etc. I find great pleasure...
I am hopelessly afflicted.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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05-27-2007, 11:08 PM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 28
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filling small gaps in acrylic from bad cuts... can it be done and what do I use? | |
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05-27-2007, 11:44 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 28
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To answer my own question, I just took some of the acrylic shavings and soved em in the gaps with some weld on #3. Doesn't look storebought anymore but no more leaking. Yay for me! | |
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05-28-2007, 10:49 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
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Originally Posted by mad_kangaroo This is no easy task if you have never worked with acrylic before. Straight cuts are difficult to acomplish and are 100% nessicary to create a working overflow. . | What method and equipment are you using to make the cuts ?? _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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05-28-2007, 11:38 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Tucson AZ
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omard I totally agree!~ _________   | |
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05-30-2007, 12:06 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
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05-30-2007, 12:09 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 28
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$9 in material btw | |
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05-30-2007, 12:13 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Milwaukee Age: 28
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Sorry Tang, I missed your post a while back. I am using just a router w/ guide as my circular saw was making for very rigid edges. | |
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05-30-2007, 07:19 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Napertucky,IL
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Not too shabby?
Are you bending with a heat gun or heat tape? | |
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