I found out I can get 2 plates of 8mm acrylic for a much cheaper price than one 16mm plate. I was wondering if anybody knows how to put these together to form a 16mm plate.
Help with acrylic please???????
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Never happen with alcohol...Chill-FAN;720973; said:
There is a chemical bonding agent that you can get commercially...
I have personally used Acetone and MEK to ply acrylic sheets...
They must be absolutly as clean as possible.
I did 2-1/4" ply to get a 1/2" x 24" x 24" panel.
I put the solvent on the botom sheet, layed the top sheet on, and weighted it till dry...48hours.
How big of acylic sheets are you trying to end up with?
http://www.northcoastmarines.com/acrylic_const.htm
these guys have everything you need...
I need a sheet of 180cm x 75cm
it needs to be 16mm thick... and I can get 2x 8mm thickness much cheaper than 1x 16mm
it needs to be 16mm thick... and I can get 2x 8mm thickness much cheaper than 1x 16mm
i'm talkin bout that pure alcohol 98% the stuff you use to fly small aircrafts with...i dont know what kind of alcohol you used but it works fine for me...acetone would work fine aswell. anything that will melt your acrylic coz that is in theory what bonds it...i made millions of laminated key rings like this when i was a kido...zennzo your wrong
Laminated keyrings?Chill-FAN;722177; said:i'm talkin bout that pure alcohol 98% the stuff you use to fly small aircrafts with...i dont know what kind of alcohol you used but it works fine for me...acetone would work fine aswell. anything that will melt your acrylic coz that is in theory what bonds it...i made millions of laminated key rings like this when i was a kido...zennzo your wrong
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Methanol? Ethanol? moonshine? Anhydrous alcohol even... It might. gum the surface,and make it tacky a bit, but to chemically bond acrylic, one needs to use a solvent much stronger than that...
put your nose to any real plastics production...from fiberglass lamination to Acrylic tank building...not a one will smell antiseptic-like...
they ALL smell like brain-cell crushing solvents...way strong...MEK,toluene,Acetone, xylene,styrene...
Think of 8.34lbs per gallon/62.42lbs per cubic foot....Most of us here sport way over a half ton of water per tank...slightly more than your average set of keys...
I will bet you anything I got, you will not find one (1) tank builder in the Aquarium industry using weak-ass antiseptics to chemically bond Cell Cast Acrylic...
zenzzo u make a good point but u dont have to be an *******...
but could anyone give me some more detail instead of just giving the substance
how do i make sure it all works out...
but could anyone give me some more detail instead of just giving the substance
how do i make sure it all works out...
I just gave you a little backround on the chemicals for process and curbed a possible expensive mishap with weak information... Sorry if I came across like an ***hole but c'mon man "keychains"?mb_barton;723483; said:
I speak from experience...I do know the processes that have worked for me.
You are asking for a "how to" to make it all work...Google the subject brother and get some backround basics, at least learn the nomenclature. Then you'll be able to understand the task that you are about to tackle...It's not an easy one...
On a scale of 1-10, building an acrylic tank, and using ply-laminated sheets is in my opinion at least a 7 in dificulty...Mainly due to the fact that the joints need to be fairly dead on square to get long lasting leakproof joints.
Alot of comercially built tanks are cut from sheets using CNC routers and some even use lasers to get the tolerences down to the thousanths.
This is extremely diffacult to do by hand on 1/2" thick acrylic...
Most DIY'rs opt for a wooden built tank with a glass or acrylic front viewing pannel
Re-read post #3 it tells you how to do the lamination, and post #7 tells you the solvents that can be used to do it with...
Good luck, and remember to practice on smaller pieces of scrap till you got it down...Have fun wear saftey glasses and stay in the fresh air,
the fumes from that stuff can give you "drain bamage"
hehe ye ok so i was a bit vague an uninformative there...so i probably deserved the whippin...and im not offended...zennzzo i could not agree with you more you know your facts about acrylic tanks...i however knows none...even from my expierence with keyrings i would never recommend building a complete acrylic tank with weak *** chemicals as you rever to it (i think it was etynol)...but what i could tell you thou is if you smacked one of these babies on the side with a hammer it never broke on the joins instead the 2mm pieces i used shattered in half...so when i heard mr.barton over hear is talkin about laminating 2 sheets and not about building the tank whalaaa keyrings ....im a sucker of re engineering stuff just incase some1 over looked something obvios...
in the end mr. barton you would be best of using the latest in technology acrylic bonding solvent....
and as for the laminating i would recommend bowing it a little bit when ready to put the 2 pieces togheter...that works on small scale anyways...
i would never recommend building a complete acrylic tank with weak *** chemicals as you rever to it (i think it was etynol)...but what i could tell you thou is if you smacked one of these babies on the side with a hammer it never broke on the joins instead the 2mm pieces i used shattered in half...so when i heard mr.barton over hear is talkin about laminating 2 sheets and not about building the tank whalaaa keyrings ....im a sucker of re engineering stuff just incase some1 over looked something obvios...in the end mr. barton you would be best of using the latest in technology acrylic bonding solvent....
and as for the laminating i would recommend bowing it a little bit when ready to put the 2 pieces togheter...that works on small scale anyways...