Portabuddy's Acrylic Coffee Table Crab Enclosure

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I would call it a death ray in the tools section :D
 
what kind of cabinet backing are you talking about? the fiberboard stuff?
 
the reason why im making this is because there was nothing that i could buy............................i guess you have not seen the coffee table aquariums that are on ebay all the time. not sure of the price though
 
very nice neeed and update though.
 
if it were me it wouldn't be a question of lack of availability...i would do it for me...i love showing off my diy everything, from my bed to my tank stands, to my stock tub system. plus doing it yourself allows you to customize it as you see fit.
 
well if i wanted a fishtank coffee table then i would make one... i want something ON my coffe table as a ornament., some ppl have fruts some ppl have plants, fancy chess boards and others like me have a kick ass custome coffeetable crab envlosure...


the only think that i likes was a frute bole but it was arounf $150 and held about 2 gallons, this will proably hold like 30.


SO THERE!!! lol.


sorry no updates today. i didnt have any time today before work and i just came home from work and its too late to start anything now...


I DIY everything i have i like tinkering and making stuff, and it just so happens that i have a job that allows me to blow the money and if it odesnt work out then oh well... i'll fix it next paycheck.


as for the blemish, i was thinking i will get a 2" tall by 96" long strip of translicent blue acrylic and wrap it around the bottom. and maybe light it from where the seam it... i have ALOT of 10mm white leds laying around doing nothing...
 
UPDATE!!!


ok well the day started off ok. i cleared off the table saw, and re-attatched the motor, then cut the wood backer down to 9.5" from 14. then i piled the stuff back on. my brother hadent woken up yet so i had to put the relitivle heavy motor on myself, which washt a fun task ;)...

then i nailed the backer onto the mould, and bent it, SNAP, it broke, snapped right in half... i had to sit dow it pissed me off so much. then later when he woke up i remembered how they made skate bords can chaird, they steem the wood. well i happen to have a steemer(what dont i have) and i steemed the wood, i used a sprayer bottle to wet it down some more in adition to the steemer.

steemer...(got it 3-4 years ago and this is the first time it was used.)
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and the spritzer bottle, also the table saw is under it, pretty sweet, i got it for $300:headbang2
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then it was flexable enough to bend... and it did. no snaps, but on the steem bend it did break. no biggie it dodnt affect anything... we worked in 5-10" sections, the whole process too almost all day, from 2pm to 7pm... from steeming, nailing, heating bending, cooling and resecuring... :screwy::drool::screwy:

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and what the acrylic sees...
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