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Old 03-25-2010, 02:55 AM
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Pick up where I left off...

Sump building time!

The sump that came with my purchase as I mentioned in a previous post was far to large. It nearly consumed the entire stand.



In order to make room for the closed loop pump, i figured i needed about 12 inches more of room.

In order to keep the cost of this build down, I completely disassembled the sump, into its various piece, and spent endless time and razor blade scraping silcone. Since the glass was only approx 6mm thick I figured i could get by without any special tools.

I scored the side pieces and cut thme perfectly to the length i needed. THe bottom panel had to be different it was thicker glass (approx 8mm). I scored the glass and when I snapped the panel, the snap line broke away off the score line So I had too order a new peice of glass. I really wasn't upset about it just trying to save a couple bucks



This photo the glass sides are silconed together.



This photo the glass sides and bottom I believe are silconed together.



Preping to silcone the inside



Completed sump! I'm very happy with the way it turned out.
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