Too much crazing to keep?

[MrShlongy]

Hi,

I recently acquired this tank and wanted to stock it for my recently bedridden grandmother. I looked around the forums for how to judge crazing, but it seems that only experienced eyes can be the best judge.

55 gallon, 4ft wide, 1/4 inch.

The tank has a slight bow even without water in it.

I do plan on doing some 2000grit hand sanding and buffing on the whole tank.
Followed by bracing the top on the tank. It has 17x7 holes. I plan to glue 2 inch thick acrylic across that I know will prevent bowing and added stress.

 

[scott3569]

I don't know a thing about acrylic, But that doesn't look like something I would want to put water in

 

[Da Maui life]

A time bomb, if you plan on putting any water in it.

 

[SoFloReefer]

55 gallon tanks are cheap. You would be crazy to use that tank.

 

[PufferGhoti]

why not use it for refugium baffles and keep it simple..

 

[NewOne81]

I might not know karate but i do know caraaazy! Avoid the future headache imo

 

[synapse2]

seems best to replace the tank, will fail.

 

[reefpatrol3]

Doesn't really look like crazing to me. Mainly the way it went from one piece (the side) and continued through the other piece (the bottom). It looks more like it was dropped on that corner.

 

[accordsirh22]

thats exactly what i was thinking reefpatrol3

 

[Da Maui life]

Crazing can migrate from one bonded panel to the other. It looks as if may have been seam repaired or the white line at the joint is some type of deposit

 

[uncleof6]

Looks like someone tried to repair a leak, and this is what happens when you try to solvent weld acrylic that has absorbed water.

 

[MrShlongy]

All the cracking is on the inside if that helps determine what the problem is.

I was planning on bracing the inside with 1" X 2" X 9" acrylic and maybe the outside with a 1/4" of similar size with weld-on 3.

Additional bracing on the top because one of the middle pieces is broken.

I am familiar with welding metal, this is the best idea I could come up with.

 

[Da Maui life]

It's really nothing more then a terrarium, at best. 17x7 holes, busted Euro brace cracking/crazing poor seam repair. FUBAR:deadhorse: