Help restoring a 120 gallon acrylic tank

[alazo1]

Hello all,
I am doing a build for an inwall setup (120 gallon standard 48x24x24).
I have an old acrylic aquarium that has the two side overflows.
I am removing the overflows with a hand grinder and cut off wheel.
Of course it is leaving some pretty bad gouging on the sides and back.

Question is can I glue a sheet of black plexiglass on the inside of the sides and the back. The aquarium only needs to be viewed in the front since it is an in wall, I was more then likely going to paint these areas anyways. The gouges are too deep to restore. I was thinking of glueing 1/8" sheet of plexiglass. I do not think just painting the areas would hide the scratches.

thanks,
Albert

 

[albano]

Yes, glue on a thin piece of black acrylic ... I did it on my 120, but used blue acrylic

 

[mcgyvr]

Yes...you can easily solvent weld acrylic to acrylic...
Get some weldon 16 and "glue" a piece right over what you want to cover...

BTW estreetplastics.com has good pricing on acrylic sheets if you need a source to buy some from

 

[alazo1]

Thanks a lot.