How thick is your glass??

[sfsuphysics]

acrylic eurobracing with glass tank?

 

[jjackson]

yeah, also what AGE does... I see it a lot though... I guess the theory is it would take a lot of force to shear it one way or the other....

thats me inside of an AGE tank... the infinity light fixture is the one I just got for my tank...

 

[sfsuphysics]

Really.. never would have thought to trust acrylic with glass bond for any sort of strength.

Ok got a quote back from Modern plastics, almost $150 to ship it to San Francisco, and another $50 on top of that for a residential address!? Geeze, I'm going to need to find this stuff locally for that kind of coin, that adds almost 60% to the cost just in shipping. I figure since it's so bulky there's no real way to ship it cheaply, in fact if I ordered a LOT shipping would even out most likely.

 

[jjackson]

there should be places locally that carry the pvc it is used in oil rigs a lot...

 

[sfsuphysics]

Yeah but I live in California, they still got the ban on drilling off the coasts

I'm sure I can get it locally, I checked Tap Plastics, it just was much more expensive than Modern Plastics.

 

[jjackson]

well isnt that just silly, my sheet cost me 110 dollars for 1" 4'x4', my glass was 110 a sheet I should have gotten starphire but was happy to have just gotten it done.. the shop messed up on size like 3 times.

 

[sfsuphysics]

$110 for 1" of 4'x4'? Christ on a crutch I need to find another plastics place other than Tap, $60 for 2x4 @ 1/4" for the grey stuff ($90 for the white!)

 

[jjackson]

yeah 110$ for 4'x4' grey pvc.... I would be careful the white is PVC ... it may be polypropylene "starboard" and I know you wont get anything to really stick to that...

 

[sfsuphysics]

Yeah, i was in the shop the other day looking at scraps to screw around with and see how they work (like if they'll explode if I go too fast with the router )... picked up a few pieces, apparently weren't PVC but HDPE... *sigh*.. I figure if this tank will be anything like my tank is now, there will be coraline all over the bottom, so reflecting more light back up doesn't matter much.

 

[jjackson]

you dont want HDPE it is high density poly ethylene you will not get anything to stick to it, you have to polyweld that stuff together.