Your thoughts and experiences on plywood tanks
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I have seen mixed comments when using pond armor, some people decided to reinforce seems with fiberglass, some didn't. Did you choose to reinforce or did you go straight pond armor on the seems?
After everything I researched I went with max acr and do not regret it. Easy to work with and only $89 a 1.5 gallon kit. Along with us composites corner fiberglass stripping its solid as a rock.
I personally think if you're going to do DIY, and apply hundreds of dollars or more of sealants and other products to it, you should not waste your time with something so disposable as plywood. I fully expect to get flamed for this...but it doesn't take much to destroy plywood, rending your expensive coatings wasted. If it bends, your coating is likely to crack.. if it gets wet, its likely to swell and/or delaminate and it'll leak..
There are plenty of success stories.. but a lot more failures. I would stick with something more permanent.. concrete or concrete block or solid woods.. things like that. Unless you're talking small scale, in which case its not even worth doing t in the first place.
There are plenty of success stories.. but a lot more failures. I would stick with something more permanent.. concrete or concrete block or solid woods.. things like that. Unless you're talking small scale, in which case its not even worth doing t in the first place.
I did reinforce the seams with fiberglass cloth, it was not that hard and went alot easier then expected, using mat is more difficult. I used a ton of screws over 1k lol, my tank is built like a tank lol. I climb on it walk on top of it without hesitation
A quick question for stempy... can max acr be applied indoors without too much of a fume issue or is it an outdoor project? I've got a basement and might have to build a tank in place to get the size I want.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I built mine in the basement and had zero issues with it. The epoxy was no different than working with paint plus they sell tints so you can make it whatever color you want. Fantastic stuff. Just look at VLDesigns 2700 gallon build, he started with pond armor which turned into a PITA so he switched to max acr and had great success with it. That was the deciding factor for my choice as well as cost. That 1 1.5 gallon kit put I think 7 coats on my 500 gallon. Pond armor would have cost hundreds to do the same thing as well as would have been far far more difficult to work with.
