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#1
11-28-2007, 04:32 PM
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LF: Glass/Acrylic Scraps
I'm attempting to make an overflow (2 pieces, each 17" high x 6" wide) for the group home aquarium. Anyone have anything laying around? Or any brilliant suggestions?
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#2
11-28-2007, 04:44 PM
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If you can wait until Friday I can probably hook you up with glass.
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#3
11-28-2007, 05:20 PM
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On Monday night (probably about 1/2 hour after you left, LOL) I just busted a 10g tank (bumped something, which knocked over a plant that fell on it. Plant was a writeoff too. Ooops.). Anyhow, it has 3 unbroken panels on it (the bottom, the back, and the left side .. I'm not sure what a typical 10g is. Something like 20x12x9? So one piece 20x12, one piece 12x9 and one piece 20x9 .. if I understand my geometry correctly
 ). I was about to haul it off to glass recycling. If you want it ..... let me know. It's not very thick glass. It's thicker than 1/8" but less than 1/4". I'm guessing it's 4mm, maybe 3mm, I'd have to check with a ruler.
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#4
11-28-2007, 05:23 PM
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Just noticed you mentioned acrylic too. I have lots of acrylic lying around that I'd love to lose, but, I'm not sure I'd use it for an overflow if the tank is glass. Problem being you can't really bond acrylic to glass. I've used acrylic baffles before and just removed them using a really hard yank. The stuff that bonds to glass (silicone) doesn't bond well to acrylic and the stuff that bonds to acrylic doesn't bond to anything else. Well, technically, you don't bond to acrylic, you melt it and it bonds to itself. I guess it's more like welding in that regard.
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#5
11-28-2007, 05:33 PM
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if you want acrylic scraps for cheap to free, look around local plastics/glass cutters. they almost always have a bin of scraps they would let you scrounge around in... they would likly throw the stuff out anyways.
in regards to tony's comment, yes. i mean it can be done, acrylic to glass, but it's much simpler to stick to glass to glass (silicone) and acrylic to acrylic (a solvent that melts the pieces together).
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#6
11-28-2007, 05:36 PM
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Awesome...thanks guys...and gal
 So, I'm just wondering about cutting the glass. Admittedly, I did have a nice big chunk of glass here that I tried to cut....and almost succeeded. I guess I'm just not confident in my ability to do that! Is anyone more confident in that regard? Tony? Catherine? Beuller?
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