Folks,
Redoing the frosted/milky seals on my old 100Gal long&tall, including setting a few reinforcing triangles along the bottom, corners and top braces (I had the glass kicking around). I cleaned it last week (thanks for the thread) and did the messy work on Saturday (3days ago). It wasn't raining. Temp probably 30C, maybe 60-80% humidity as we live near the sea.
Used a single big tube of silicone, and it seems to have cured differently over different parts of the tank: some spots it's done fine: firm, stuck etc, and other spots it's still sort of mushy and smears when I rub it with my thumb. Still half a tube left (expensive stuff) and I've got another 4 or 5 triangles to put in.
Advice?
a) Wait another few days and see again? b) Rip it all out and start again with a fresh tube from a new shop? That'd be a nightmare, as the new triangle braces would need to come out too, which would likely require a complete breakdown. c) Or do I just let it stay, clean it up and chance it? It's on the balcony, so if it was to give up it'd be a horror, but would drain into the garden... assuming it's not catastrophic, which would put an 800Lb water-anvil dropping 4m down and onto my landlord's $12K generator.
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Redoing the frosted/milky seals on my old 100Gal long&tall, including setting a few reinforcing triangles along the bottom, corners and top braces (I had the glass kicking around). I cleaned it last week (thanks for the thread) and did the messy work on Saturday (3days ago). It wasn't raining. Temp probably 30C, maybe 60-80% humidity as we live near the sea.
Used a single big tube of silicone, and it seems to have cured differently over different parts of the tank: some spots it's done fine: firm, stuck etc, and other spots it's still sort of mushy and smears when I rub it with my thumb. Still half a tube left (expensive stuff) and I've got another 4 or 5 triangles to put in.
Advice?
a) Wait another few days and see again? b) Rip it all out and start again with a fresh tube from a new shop? That'd be a nightmare, as the new triangle braces would need to come out too, which would likely require a complete breakdown. c) Or do I just let it stay, clean it up and chance it? It's on the balcony, so if it was to give up it'd be a horror, but would drain into the garden... assuming it's not catastrophic, which would put an 800Lb water-anvil dropping 4m down and onto my landlord's $12K generator.
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