12/3/2023 0 Comments Acrylic overflow box![]() ![]() And cannot clamp with an equaly applied force over the intire surface you will always see the irregularities and crazing in the weld later on. If it aint a perfect flat straight edge you want to glue together. It doesn't depend on the solvent but depends on how clean and especialy how straight the cut is you want to glue. Rather get a small 5cc dispenser bottle with a needle top.Įven using chloromethane or any other top noch solvent you still can get crazing. It's easy to always apply way to much causing a lot of solvent running off. Anyway you always have to push a tight fitting piston in the syringe very dificult to apply a few drops. Tho i would not recomend a syringe and certainly not a plastic one with a rubber seal on the piston. It's a prety common household solution for small projects. Google glue acrylic with acetone and you find some data and videos. You don't need any special secret recepies, you could simply use acetone, you wont notice the diference. ![]() Thus if its just a simple crack in a pipe or a box that doesn't need to hold a ton of strenght. But nowadays due to horor stories not that easily available anymore for the regular every day costumer asking for Chloroform. Acrylic was commonly welded with Chloroform only. In the early days before Dichloromethane was discovered as such a good acrylic welding solvent. For Brush cleaning, Degreasing, paint stripping etc As long as it is pure Dichloromethane you can use it.īut Acetone also could be used, its a simmular effective solvent. This stuff is used and available in a variety of products and industries. ![]() Thus you could use pure Dichloromethane, this is still considered the best acrylic solvent out there. But it still welds and not to be seen with the nacked eye, since its on molecular level.įor reparing a crack that doesn't need to hold any force any solvent will do to close it again. ![]() Without monomers the molocular structure will be erratic and thus less strong and somewhat brittle. This helps to aline the molocular structure in the weld and give strenght. In case you need a strong as possible bond (Aquarium building) we absolutely need the monomers in the solvent. Wait a minute? I always thought DIY meant a good excuss to (As Tim Taylor the Tool Man would say) "grunt, R r R r" "You're darn right, buy more power tools!".ĭarn! no wonder I don't save money doing it myslef.Those solvents for welding acrylic are a Mixture of several compounds, Dichloromethane for the biggest part, part Chloroform and part Monomers. Now, if you're afraid you're going to doink it up or cut off a finger/hand and you want me to build it for you then there's a little more than a couple of bucks involved (I'm not cheap, just extremely reasonable) or maybe a few frags, always looking for zoas. I have WeldOn, I think I can spare the all of a thimble full you'll need.lol OR, you can throw me a couple bucks and use what I have. you can get black acrylic there in small enough pieces for your box. There's a plastics shop at the end of my street. You're more than welcome to come over and use my shop, no tool shopping needed or trying to make something do what it's not supposed to do because you don't need a two hundred dollar router to save yourself 65 bucks. Is it just a matter of saving some bucks or are you yearning for that "I made it myself" experience as well? Heating/bending is another method, but you'll need a few pieces of acrylic to practice first before actually doing it since there is a learning curve to getting a smooth, even, bubble free bend. The only thing is that you need a table saw to get the best edges, but if you don't have one you could use the score & snap method of cutting and using a file/rasp to get the edges flat for gluing. It's probably about 9x7x4 and has no teeth. I made my overflow box out of 1/8" acrylic spray painted black (on the inside, which is okay since spray paint forms a very strong bond with acrylic) and no teeth. Even teeth won't guarantee that things don't get stuck in there. I could put a piece of egg crate on top of it to prevent fish from getting in there, but I haven't really had the problem. Remember that the overflow doesn't need to be strong (the water pressure will be very similar on both sides of the overflow on most nano tanks), but it absolutely needs to be leak proof so using thin, cheap acrylic isn't an issue.Īlso there are a lot of ways to do the overflow teeth. If your drains are on the back pane, you'll most likely want a 4 sided box (though you could still have a 3 sided overflow the height of the tank). If your drain is on the bottom of the tank then you only need a 3 sided overflow. Depending on your setup I totally recommend designing your own overflow box. ![]()
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