Vincerama2
Supporting Member
OK, so I want to make a temp sump with a glass AGA 29 g I happen to have. So I went to HD and bought a piece of glass 16x20 for $5 and a $6 glass cutting tool. The glass is really thin 3/32" but it was going to be a baffle, not a tank wall.
Anyway, I go to cut it and rotate the glass ... it bumps into a hand plane that I stupidly left on the workbench and the glass cracks in a diagonal. However, the crack ends at a point where I could still recover a piece to use as a baffle, So I cut it with the glass tool. Then as I pick up the glass to break it along the score .... the diagonal crack (because it's a crack and not just a scored line) takes over and just breaks the whole piece of glass.
yes, it was way too thin. I just chucked it in the garbage can in disgust. Should have just thrown $5 in the garbage and saved myself the frustration.
So then I went and found a similarly thin piece of acrylic in my workshop and cut/routed it.
I will be siliconing in the acrylic baffle tonight. Yes, I know "silicon doesn't stick to acrylic. But it's a baffle, not a tank wall, so all it needs to do is be gummed into position with silicon and hold back a few inches of water.
I plan to make a custom acrylic sump, but my wife keeps saying to me "Done is better than perfect" so I need to get a sump under that thing fast and this will do it.
Maybe thicker glass, custom cut at a glass shop would work.
Hmmm... come to think of it, I have a large glass sump with baffles that is not being used (it doesn't fit the stand), I could butcher out the baffles and .... nah forget it. I hate glass.
V
Anyway, I go to cut it and rotate the glass ... it bumps into a hand plane that I stupidly left on the workbench and the glass cracks in a diagonal. However, the crack ends at a point where I could still recover a piece to use as a baffle, So I cut it with the glass tool. Then as I pick up the glass to break it along the score .... the diagonal crack (because it's a crack and not just a scored line) takes over and just breaks the whole piece of glass.
yes, it was way too thin. I just chucked it in the garbage can in disgust. Should have just thrown $5 in the garbage and saved myself the frustration.
So then I went and found a similarly thin piece of acrylic in my workshop and cut/routed it.
I will be siliconing in the acrylic baffle tonight. Yes, I know "silicon doesn't stick to acrylic. But it's a baffle, not a tank wall, so all it needs to do is be gummed into position with silicon and hold back a few inches of water.
I plan to make a custom acrylic sump, but my wife keeps saying to me "Done is better than perfect" so I need to get a sump under that thing fast and this will do it.
Maybe thicker glass, custom cut at a glass shop would work.
Hmmm... come to think of it, I have a large glass sump with baffles that is not being used (it doesn't fit the stand), I could butcher out the baffles and .... nah forget it. I hate glass.
V
