Nice looking build.:thm: From looking at your photos I can tell I'm not ready to try something of this nature.
600gal plywood build.
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Alright, few more pics tonight, mostly just detail work. I dunno how much of it is apparent to anyone but me. I'm anxiously waiting for the day that I can gelcoat the whole thing so it's not multicolored anymore.
I'm about 90% done fiberglassing the seams, and I've decided to fiberglass the whole bottom for durability, but that shouldn't take much time, just lots of materials.
I'm about 90% done fiberglassing the seams, and I've decided to fiberglass the whole bottom for durability, but that shouldn't take much time, just lots of materials.
Going to get a few yards of Fiberglass mat today. Girlfriend is out of town tomorrow so I should be able to put lots of time in. I also have a project on the go for a customer that needs to be finished by friday, so I won't get as much done as I wanted to, but I can use the couple hundred bucks from the other project to buy materials for my stand.
The GF is going to buy me a compound miter saw for my birthday next week, because she figures I'll build her furniture with it
... but first and foremost I need to build the stand for this, along with the 180gl holding tank for underneath the stand.
The GF is going to buy me a compound miter saw for my birthday next week, because she figures I'll build her furniture with it
OK, so I dug up my undercoating gun tonight, and tried it out with some gelcoat. It lays it on THICK, and textured, which is OK by me, it's hard to judge when you've over-applied though. I used about 1500ml of gelcoat tonight to cover one end, and the whole window frame, and the whole top frame. I'm guessing it'll take about a liter to do the back, and another 1500ml to do the bottom. I've got a bit of a problem because I didn't add air dry wax to the stuff I sprayed tonight - I figured it would get recoated, but it's so thick it won't need any recoating. I'll have to spray it down with PVA when I'm done, let it cure, and then THOROUGHLY wash everything with soapy water, which will be a serious pain. Oh well. Better that I guess than having to sand and recoat!
This weekend, totally unrelated but, I got started building a stand for someone's tank I'll be building parralel to this tank (3x4x30"). Here's the stand:
Acrylic should be here wednesday for that tank, so progress may drop off on the 600 for a bit.
I also had to finish up an algae scrubber for another customer.
Now, onto the 600 progress. I started on the stand. It has to be (dis) assemblable, because it will be 8'x4'x40", which will not fit thru any doorway in my house. I only got done the top of the stand today... it weighs like 100lbs.
I also added the centerbrace, fiberglassed it in, cut a hole for a bulkhead for my waterchange plumbing, and gelcoated the whole tank.
Acrylic should be here wednesday for that tank, so progress may drop off on the 600 for a bit.
I also had to finish up an algae scrubber for another customer.
Now, onto the 600 progress. I started on the stand. It has to be (dis) assemblable, because it will be 8'x4'x40", which will not fit thru any doorway in my house. I only got done the top of the stand today... it weighs like 100lbs.
I also added the centerbrace, fiberglassed it in, cut a hole for a bulkhead for my waterchange plumbing, and gelcoated the whole tank.
Alright, amazing what trying to distract yourself from other life changing concerns will accomplish. Nearly 2AM here now, work is going to suck *** tomorrow, but feckit, it's my birthday 
. Everyone at work will expect me to roll in hung over tomorrow anyways.
It's so hard to convey the scale of this thing with photos, for some reason the shape or the colors or something make it look like a 2-300gal setup, so I decided to set the camera timer and get in for reference.
. Everyone at work will expect me to roll in hung over tomorrow anyways.
It's so hard to convey the scale of this thing with photos, for some reason the shape or the colors or something make it look like a 2-300gal setup, so I decided to set the camera timer and get in for reference.
