150 gallon plywood aquarium front face modification and background
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What do you plan on keeping in there, it seems kind of shallow, but maybe its just me being shallow, looks good though
That's too bad, I don't remember if you had said , but why were you resealing it? Also you probably already mentioned it, but, how big, and how much was the glass?bigbaddad;1906682; said:
I picked it up and moved it across the room when i tried to set it down i dropped it and didn't notice any damage when i filled it up with water again it started to leak.
When i replace the glass i am going to replace it with 1'' and search for a better grade silicone.
The original piece of glass was 1/4 '' float glass 94'' by 14'' and i am also going to change the dimensions to fit tight the original as reccomended by garf.org has been nothing but a headache with problamatic gap's.
I have been working with several builds and the succesfull ones were all tight fitting glass panels a 1/6 '' of space on each side to fit without breaking anything.
The price was 115.00
When i replace the glass i am going to replace it with 1'' and search for a better grade silicone.
The original piece of glass was 1/4 '' float glass 94'' by 14'' and i am also going to change the dimensions to fit tight the original as reccomended by garf.org has been nothing but a headache with problamatic gap's.
I have been working with several builds and the succesfull ones were all tight fitting glass panels a 1/6 '' of space on each side to fit without breaking anything.
The price was 115.00
1/4" glass seams very thin to me, but 1" seems awfully thick(heavy, expensive) what did garf recommend as far as thickness? Also, did you mean 1/16" and not 1/6, as far as the perimeter gap was concerned? Thanks for the infobigbaddad;1907411; said:
yeah sorry i meant 1/16 '' gap as for the the bondo this was a concern on a tank i didn't fiberglass it was a 100 gallon and the base of the tank cracked and started to leak i had to toss the whole thing.
I have never had a reccomondation on a particular product other than the automotive putty to use i put alot of effort into the 150 build.
I used 2 coats of 2 part epoxy gel on the base 1 coat on the rest of the inside and 1 coat across the outside that started to get expensive so i fiberglassed the whole thing.
I started to come to a point where i really did not want to spend anymore money on it filled it up and it left me with a thin white film.
The last step i painted it with a drinking water safe marine paint.
I have never had a reccomondation on a particular product other than the automotive putty to use i put alot of effort into the 150 build.
I used 2 coats of 2 part epoxy gel on the base 1 coat on the rest of the inside and 1 coat across the outside that started to get expensive so i fiberglassed the whole thing.
I started to come to a point where i really did not want to spend anymore money on it filled it up and it left me with a thin white film.
The last step i painted it with a drinking water safe marine paint.
