My 3665 Gallon Lined Plywood Tank Build Log
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Using the club meeting at my house to my advantage. I'm ordering the acrylic monday for saturday delivery.
Just thinking of it: Are you going to put half of the club-members behind the glass and sit with the rest enjoying beers looking at them?
Good chance to get some perspective on the size of the tank...You might want to dress them up with some hats and masks in the shape of fish...
Good chance to get some perspective on the size of the tank...You might want to dress them up with some hats and masks in the shape of fish...
Haha! That would be hilarious.
This is surely going to be a busy week. I have a ton of stuff to do not related to fish at all in addition to everything I have to do to get ready for the meeting.
This is surely going to be a busy week. I have a ton of stuff to do not related to fish at all in addition to everything I have to do to get ready for the meeting.
Finished up final framing pieces then glued and screwed the whole thing. The primary addition to the last photos is a 2x10 header board that spans the entire 13' of the face of the tank. A few small framing pieces too. Tuesday, we'll be cutting out the drywall front and framing the outside from the viewing side. I'll take more pictures then. I opted to not use gorilla glue to coat the surface that contacts the acrylic. The Dow 795 bonds to everything, so it will provide the barrier between the acrylic and wood. I have to run a bead of construction adhesive around where the 2x4 meets the 2x6, but other than that it's done.
I wasn't going to use it to bond anything, but only to coat the wood to make a waterproof seal. My intent was to brush it on, let it dry, sand off the high spots.
Not really for what I wanted it for. I wanted a sandable waterproof hard surface to form a barrier between the dow 795 and the wood.
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