edraniam Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hello, I would like to try my hand in building an acrylic aquarium. I would like some information on the thickness of the glass, there is a table? The cut should be rough or polished to be pasted? should be made to saw or a laser? How thick is left between the two sides to be bonded? HELLO, THANK YOU! Link to comment
farkwar Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I suggest working with acrylic making sump baffles and overflow stuff first. An ATO reservior. Easy stuff that if it breaks it wont cost you thousands in livestock, carpet and hardwood repair. Get a good router. a good router table Carbide bits. A jigsaw with plastic cutting blade. a circular saw with a plastic cutting blade. an Emerson locking straight edge and a good portable workbench, recommend Keter from Amazon https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&client=tablet-android-att-us&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=keter%20work%20table&source=android-browser-suggest&qsubts=1409171245451 And a shopvac, cheap is the bucket head shop vac. get Weldon 3,4. Weldon 16. Dispensing containers. A heat gun propane torch Www.TapPlastics.com Link to comment
edraniam Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 Really plates buy them already cut. So sawing without polishing? I would prefer to use the glue. But for the thickness delel plates as you rule? and space to leave for bonding? hello Link to comment
farkwar Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Hello. If you dont know what youre doing, youre not capable of building a sound acrylic fish tank by yourself. I recommended that you learn how to work with acrylic first on small safe projects. There are How To videos on the site I posted. I suggest you watch them, and 50 more on youtube. Build a small acrylic box to hold your phone underwater to take underwater pics.Thats a good beginner project. Link to comment
disaster999 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 ^+1 Please do more research on your own and educate yourself on how to work with acrylic. We can advice you the thickness of the acrylic you should use for the tank size you want to build, but we cant give you step by step instruction on how how to build a tank. As farkwar said, go to the website he linked and watch all their acrylic videos. Link to comment
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