Glue for Refugium?
- Thread starter vkuroczka
- Start date
bizzmoneyb
Member
glueing acrylic to acrylic? i dont know of anything you can use in a tank to bond acrylic. normally use silicone, but silicone wont bond to acrylic. if your going acrylic to glass you can bead silicone on really heavy to hold the acrylic in place, but it wont bond to it.
jackri
Active Member
I use weld on #4.
It chemically bonds it together... evaporates like rubbing alcohol if you spill it. We have a place in town to get it, but online places have a pretty high shipping charge due to the fact it's a hazardous material when shipped. A little goes a long ways, I used 8 oz to make a 36 gallon sump with 4 baffles and a 3 foot x 4 foot x 12 inch deep tank.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/350650/frag-tank-stand-build
It chemically bonds it together... evaporates like rubbing alcohol if you spill it. We have a place in town to get it, but online places have a pretty high shipping charge due to the fact it's a hazardous material when shipped. A little goes a long ways, I used 8 oz to make a 36 gallon sump with 4 baffles and a 3 foot x 4 foot x 12 inch deep tank.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/350650/frag-tank-stand-build
salt life
Active Member
Originally Posted by BizzMoneyB
http:///forum/post/2972733
glueing acrylic to acrylic? i dont know of anything you can use in a tank to bond acrylic. normally use silicone, but silicone wont bond to acrylic. if your going acrylic to glass you can bead silicone on really heavy to hold the acrylic in place, but it wont bond to it.
I used the aqurarium silicone they sell in fish stores to glue acrylic baffles to a glass tank and it worked fine? why does everyone say it can't work?
http:///forum/post/2972733
glueing acrylic to acrylic? i dont know of anything you can use in a tank to bond acrylic. normally use silicone, but silicone wont bond to acrylic. if your going acrylic to glass you can bead silicone on really heavy to hold the acrylic in place, but it wont bond to it.
I used the aqurarium silicone they sell in fish stores to glue acrylic baffles to a glass tank and it worked fine? why does everyone say it can't work?
jackri
Active Member
Again .... weld on # 4
Now as far as finding it locally? unfortunately all I can say is good luck.
Google it and you might find somewhere local, also look in your yellow pages for a plastics shop as they would have it on hand..... I have to go to a custom plastics shop here (actually called Custom Plastics) and just take a small bottle from their big jug. Be sure to get a needle applicator too.
Melev's site is a good one to refer to for acrylic works (google melev)
Now as far as finding it locally? unfortunately all I can say is good luck.
Google it and you might find somewhere local, also look in your yellow pages for a plastics shop as they would have it on hand..... I have to go to a custom plastics shop here (actually called Custom Plastics) and just take a small bottle from their big jug. Be sure to get a needle applicator too.
Melev's site is a good one to refer to for acrylic works (google melev)
salt life
Active Member
Originally Posted by vkuroczka
http:///forum/post/2973159
didn't know this was gonna be such a pain ..
There's always something in this hobby that doesn't work out as easy as it may seem.
thank you for the clarification Jackri, sorry about that.
http:///forum/post/2973159
didn't know this was gonna be such a pain ..
There's always something in this hobby that doesn't work out as easy as it may seem.
thank you for the clarification Jackri, sorry about that.
jackri
Active Member
I've built 2 sumps and a big frag tank out of acrylic -- it's really not hard but I had everything pre-cut to size and some good guidance... happy to pass it on with what works.
Oh, one more tip if you should happen to have a small seeping leak.... my last sump did as I kinda put the baffles in before the second side... you can get really really thin strips (scraps leftover at the plastics shop) and use the weld on #4 with those strips in the seams and makes an awesome leak proof seem. I'll have some new pics in my frag tank build thread early this coming week of how its set up... still filling it with ro/di water
(day 4 now)
Oh, one more tip if you should happen to have a small seeping leak.... my last sump did as I kinda put the baffles in before the second side... you can get really really thin strips (scraps leftover at the plastics shop) and use the weld on #4 with those strips in the seams and makes an awesome leak proof seem. I'll have some new pics in my frag tank build thread early this coming week of how its set up... still filling it with ro/di water
(day 4 now)