building a 500 gallon plywood tank

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kherron666 said:
tank painted , now water proff time , i went with clear 2 part epoxy , got 3 gallons ,, i followed garf plywood tank builds mostly for my tank plans ,,,, but instead of 4 coats ,, did everthing 6 times , inside tank 6 times and the top i did top and sides and bottom 6 times too and some stuff im putting in the tank too , im going with death look , chopped hands and foot and tumbstone , and last will be a 2foot wide 3 foot long about 2 foot tall cript in middle ,
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Hmm, this should be interesting... I'm looking forward.
 
note:: the epoxy should bu used out side , but since im working alone and my tank size and weight its getting heavy to move the tank and stand , im paiting inside , did 6 coats and took over 2 weeks to do since i could only do 1 coat a day and light sand and paint again, since im doing it inside have to get kids out so can do it , planned ahead , went to my parents house and while they werent looking ran to car and took off ,,,, got to luv parents ,, lol anyway now to set house up , open all windows and doors put blowers and fans in windows , on 1 side house , everthing sucking out and other side blowing in , made my house like wind tunnel, and have to say thought paint would be thick , but very waterly, runs easy, mixed the 2 part togeather and wait 45 min then paint , and has very strong smell,,,, each coat took about hour and half to do everthing , my woman help me paint too , and after painted , left house 4 hours and then after that closed windows and ac back on , i left only the big blower fan in window blowing out all night and day cause could smell the paint otherwise ,,, my dad does ac for living and had bunch of blowers different sizes , work good , alot movement threw them
 
after first coat we flipped the tank to make it easyer to paint and have to saY paint runs very easy had to sand some down ,
 
on kinda funny note , its friday night and me and my woman kids free , which happen maybe ones a month most time ,, anyway its friday night which for us is pizza night too , i know thats a over share , lol here we are kids free sitting inside my plywood tank painting and chatting , just funny how life works out , , who thought i would be 36 painting a tank friday night at 9pm , i know we live a wild life lol my woman backs me up and help me alot on this project , befor i started this i told her and kids i will be spending alot time on this and they all understood , kids thinks is cool , i let them help out few min here and there screwing or something and they happy ,
 
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