Drilling Glass

[overanalyzer]

OK I have an old glass tank (ten gallon - 4 huge cracks). Anyhow - I am using it to make aragocrete rocks. I would like to drill a hole near the bottom so I could get the sand good and wet and have a bulkhead with adrain near the bottom. Obviously I am OK with experimenting with this tank since it is all but worthless.
the side I want to drill is NOT cracked. What do I need to drill it and how would I go about drilling glass?? Do I need to put wood on either side to help stabilize? Does my normal rechargeable drill have the umph to do this??
Just curious ...
Thanks all!

 

[sucram]

I used a Dremmel with diamond tipped engraving bits to slowly grind through a 20 gal. It was slow, but worked really well. I think those diamond tipped hole bits are rather expensive, but I got a set of 20 engraving bits for $6 at Menards.

 

[rane]

check these places out...and let me know what you find out
http://www.crlaurence.com/ProductPag...h=::4900::5258
You might want to do a search in www.google.com for aquarium drilling
http://website.lineone.net/~espsrg/diy_7.htm
I wanted to do the same to my Tank but dont have the B@ll$ to do it

 

[overanalyzer]

Originally posted by RANE
I wanted to do the same to my Tank but dont have the B@ll$ to do it
I'll check them out - if it was a Piece of $hi! 10 gallon all cracked I would not even be thinking of this!!

 

[overanalyzer]

bump

 

[broncofish]

HEy Jerome I think we have talked about this before, but then again maybe not? Your cordless would do it because you don't need a lot of pressure, but the drill bit required costs more than this project would be worth to you. Be cheaper to buy a rubbermaid container and drill a hole with a regular hole saw bit.