Aquarium repair help

[Ulu]

If the frame is plastic you can glue a new plastic brace right to it, and with a canopy you won't see the repair job.

BUT you're not going to get the plastic off in one piece. I'd give you one chance in 10 of doing it, and then it'll be distorted.

Just cut it all away, sit the finished tank on Styrofoam, and add glass braces.

OR buy new frames, but there goes the cost savings you imagine.

This tank broke because the brace broke. The brace is the weak link in the design.

I have two 4' tanks designed this way. They are tempered glass and I hate them

 

[Infernapes]

If the frame is plastic you can glue a new plastic brace right to it, and with a canopy you won't see the repair job.

BUT you're not going to get the plastic off in one piece. I'd give you one chance in 10 of doing it, and then it'll be distorted.

Just cut it all away, sit the finished tank on Styrofoam, and add glass braces.

OR buy new frames, but there goes the cost savings you imagine.

This tank broke because the brace broke. The brace is the weak link in the design.

I have two 4' tanks designed this way. They are tempered glass and I hate them

I figured that's why it cracked. A new brace is like $100, I priced glass and I'm looking at $200-$250 (high end is tempered) and then like $15 for silicone.

 

[Ulu]

$100 each or does $100 cover the top and bottom frames?
Shipping? Tax?

I think the expected cost has doubled.

 

[Infernapes]

$100 each or does $100 cover the top and bottom frames?
Shipping? Tax?

I think the expected cost has doubled.

I'm not sure where I had found it but $100 for the top frame only with shipping and tax.

I still don't expect the cost to be more than $900+ even after the tank cost. I'm seeing around $575-$600.

 

[Infernapes]

Added below are pictures of the crack and brace.

 

[Ulu]

The risk assessment is yours buddy. Financially and physically.
Have at it and let the chips fall where they may.

 

[Infernapes]

The risk assessment is yours buddy. Financially and physically.
Have at it and let the chips fall where they may.

Not quite sure what you mean.

 

[Ulu]

It could be worth the cost, risk, time and trouble to you, but it would not to me.
Everybody's different.

 

[Infernapes]

It could be worth the cost, risk, time and trouble to you, but it would not to me.
Everybody's different.

Okay, one last question if you were to do it what glass would you use annealed glass or tempered glass?

 

[Ulu]

You can't drill tempered glass. You evidently have annealed glass now. I wouldn't switch.