Is This Bad????
- Thread starter Angel_Keeper
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I wouldn't worry about a centre brace. Acrylic tanks will always have some flex to them. To brace it you would have to empty the tank, cut a piece of Acrylic to width and then buy a bonding agent that will form a plastic weld. Talk to a store that specializes in plastics, fiberglass, etc. In my area there is a franchise called Industrial Paint & Plastics. I guess a temporary fix would be to build a wood brace to go across the top and overlap the edges of the tank. Make it the width of the tank and then squeeze the tank where it bows just enough to slide the brace on. If that proves too difficult then lower the water level until the tank is back to its original shape, add the brace, and then refill.
Right. Mine is an older all-glass, with no centre brace. (did you know that glas is a liquid, not a solid?)
sumthin fishy said:
yea i knew that, but it is a matter of debate amung semantic conscious scientists... glass is a bunch of molecules that act like they are very cold, they would slide past each other, but they have so little energy in them that they just kinduv clump together, if you look at a 50+ year old house, the bottom parts of the glass pains are thicker, this is because the glass has 'flowed' downwards
jus so ya no :read:
another argument for liquid is that there is no crystal formation at all in glass. it is all just a bunch of loose molecules that tend to cling to eachother, but in no order or pattern, just like with fluids.
