How hard is to cut acrylic?
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...I put at least a 1/4 inch bead on both sides of each divider. The manager at tap plastics said it would work fine.try it out.. it will hold a little, but not alot of pressure, as it doesn't actually bond to acrylic, as it does to glass.
Worst case they slip a little and your fuge tries to escape.. it is not like it will flood your house (since it is not a water tight required seam).
EDIT : I am surpised that the manager there said that. I had always read that silicone does not bond well to acrylic, but to be perfectly honest I had never tried it myself (mainly based on what I had read from multiple locations). It may work just fine for your application, but I thought I had read one thread where someone used silicone to put in acrylic baffles and they ended up not working, but I really don't know from first hand experience. Maybe someone else here could chime in who has more experience putting acryulic baffles into an acrylic sump using silicone.
Worst case they slip a little and your fuge tries to escape.. it is not like it will flood your house (since it is not a water tight required seam).
EDIT : I am surpised that the manager there said that. I had always read that silicone does not bond well to acrylic, but to be perfectly honest I had never tried it myself (mainly based on what I had read from multiple locations). It may work just fine for your application, but I thought I had read one thread where someone used silicone to put in acrylic baffles and they ended up not working, but I really don't know from first hand experience. Maybe someone else here could chime in who has more experience putting acryulic baffles into an acrylic sump using silicone.
I am going to YR tomorrow to pick up some macro. I have 20 gallons of reef crystals mixing so when I get home tomorrow, I will be adding and 5-6 inches of sand and maybe a small booster of miracle mud or such. I can't believe I got off my lazy ars and finally got this done...
I have an extra piece that I originally was going to put in as a bubble trap, but I got too excited and went from the middle over instead of the one that would be the toughest first.
I guess that I can correct that tomorrow. I have used a filter sponged to catch the bubbles in the past.
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Yeah, I wouldn't use silicone for acrylic. I tried it, and even after a couple days the silicone peeled off when I filled the tank with water. Better to go back to TAP & get weldon & do it right the first time.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9520156#post9520156 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sparkss
If you were closer I would loan you some tunzes to keep your in tank flow going.
I have 2 nano streams and a 6000 in there right now. That should be fine until I get this matter corrected today.
) and now it is the the garage drying out.very cool Mark.. I can't wait to see it in operation 
(and I am sure that you can't wait either 
)
I have heard people say to wait 24 hours after using weldon, but I tend to disagree... it basically melts the acrylic pieces together.. so aside from it drying to get a good bond (which for small welds like you did is maybe 10 mins), there shouldn't be much more needed. I think the working/bonding time for Weldon 4 is in the seconds. I would recommend rinsing it quite thoroughly though before putting it back into service...When you rinse it you can always do a leak test on the new compartment, although for your purposes it doens't have to be water tight.. just has to hold up
I also would like to hear from some other, more experienced, acrylic peeps out there on the time between gluing and using.. and I don't mean the recommended.. but the shortest they have done and not seen any negative affects from. I just don't want to give John any bad advice, just because I did it and "got away with it", so to speak
(and I am sure that you can't wait either )I have heard people say to wait 24 hours after using weldon, but I tend to disagree... it basically melts the acrylic pieces together.. so aside from it drying to get a good bond (which for small welds like you did is maybe 10 mins), there shouldn't be much more needed. I think the working/bonding time for Weldon 4 is in the seconds. I would recommend rinsing it quite thoroughly though before putting it back into service...When you rinse it you can always do a leak test on the new compartment, although for your purposes it doens't have to be water tight.. just has to hold up
I also would like to hear from some other, more experienced, acrylic peeps out there on the time between gluing and using.. and I don't mean the recommended.. but the shortest they have done and not seen any negative affects from. I just don't want to give John any bad advice, just because I did it and "got away with it", so to speak
We have flow
We have flow
So, it took about 36 hours to complete my project. The only casualty was my Tyree insignis. It fell into a Yuma and stung the crap out of it. Thats what I get for buying corals when I am out of glue.
So, I need some feed back. What do you have in your refugium. Mine is made up of fine sediment, live rock rubble, 5 lbs of miracle mud (got a great deal), sold macro algae, and a walmart 6500k 13 watt light. I bought a coralife 2x18 watts, but I think I might take it back. Still unopened in the box.
I am looking for various types of algae to house in my refugium. If you have extra's, please let me know.
We have flow
So, it took about 36 hours to complete my project. The only casualty was my Tyree insignis. It fell into a Yuma and stung the crap out of it. Thats what I get for buying corals when I am out of glue.
So, I need some feed back. What do you have in your refugium. Mine is made up of fine sediment, live rock rubble, 5 lbs of miracle mud (got a great deal), sold macro algae, and a walmart 6500k 13 watt light. I bought a coralife 2x18 watts, but I think I might take it back. Still unopened in the box.
I am looking for various types of algae to house in my refugium. If you have extra's, please let me know.
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