Broken Collection Cup

TheReefGeek · #1 03-03-2006, 01:20 AM

I have a broken collection cup for my skimmer, there is a hole about 1/2" by 1/2".

Any ideas how to patch it? I was wondering if I duct taped the outside, if there is anything I could pour into it that would fill the hole then harden? Then when I took the duct tape off, it would be water proof.

The missing chunk of plastic is right on the curved bottom of the cup, so I can't just silicon or weld-on an acylic patch unfortunately.

mr_alberta · #2 03-03-2006, 01:39 AM

You should be able to easily form a small strip of 1/8" acrylic and weld-on that to the cup. Or duct tape works

TheReefGeek · #3 03-03-2006, 01:47 AM

If I had a heat gun and made a 1"x1" piece of acrylic, heat it up so it bent around the curve, then used weld-on, that might just work.

Will have to find out how much a heat gun costs then, unless there is some other method to heat up acrylic? Can you boil it or something like that? All I have handy is 1/4" inch acrylic too.

mr_alberta · #4 03-03-2006, 01:55 AM

You can pick up 1/8" thick acrylic at home depot. A small 8.5x11 sheet is about $5 IIRC.

You can heat acrylic with a lighter if you really want.

TheReefGeek · #5 03-03-2006, 02:03 AM

I will give that a try, thanks.

Murminator · #6 03-03-2006, 02:34 AM

Put it in an electric frying pan on top of a peice of papertowel but make sure you watch it that the papertowel doesn't catch fire

It will turn acrylic to almost rubber then use the colection cup as a jig and bend it around it and let it cool.