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01-21-2004, 06:40 PM
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Bob, there is no sence making small tanks out of acrylic as they would be twice the cost of a glass tank and not worth it. the domain of acrylic is in larger tanks where the weigh and clarity of thicker glass make acrylic's cost more atractive.
Also you have to understand that the company that makes the mold and forms them could very well charge up to 5000.00 / mold, so they would have to sell a lot of tanks to justify the cost of the mold. I recently looked into getting a excursion mold for abs made and they wanted 2000.00 to make the mold (but I would own the rights to it after) If there is scratch resistant acrilic that would be cool, and by injection or vaccume molding it would greatly reduce the cost of a tank as it takes about 10 min to make one. Do you have any info on the acrylic polymere that they will be using for the tanks Kyle? Steve
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