Look what I just found in my own garage sale!

[wattsupdoc]

Can you say freebie? Good....

My motherin law has yard sales from time to time, she wants to make abusiness out of it i think.... anyways, lots of us put things in it and my wife and i were running it today when I noticed this acrylic tank...

This will make a nice fuge for my DT. And because I was gonna buy the acrylic to make it, it saved me about 80 bucks.

Only problem is it has a large crack in the back of it. How can I fix this? I though about cutting a part of the top off, Im gonna need to anyways to access it. And then using that as a patch. Is there a glue that will chemically weld this stuff? Or does it just adhere it?

 

[rcdude1990]

its cool good find but b carful if it breaks ur in trouble
i think u should fill iit up wit water, leave somewere that if it breaks the water can go everywere safley
i would fill it wit water and leave it alone for mayb 2-3 weeks to make sure its safe
or u can jus use that safe glue to keep it together

 

[rrcjr1972]

Weld on #16. You could cut a piece of acrylic and weld on over crack, or just weld on crack. I had large crack in my acrylic fuge and the people here told me about the weld on and it is the greatest. Best stuff I have ever seen. Use it and you will never see a leak.

 

[lobstergrabber]

yeah the weld on is the stuff. I would first weld on the crack and then do a piece across the crack to help relieve pressure and you should be good to go. Nice find.
Rich

 

[wattsupdoc]

awesome, the crack does leak but I'll fix that. Where do you get weld on #16? Lowes?
BTW it measure 30 X 12 X 18 ==28 gallons or so.

 

[rrcjr1972]

do a google search and you will find some places that sell it. Home depot and lowes doesn't carry it. Yellow pages and look for acrylic places. They also carry it.

 

[bojik]

You can use a rotozip/router etc. With a good side cutting bit to gently route the top off as aposed to out right cutting. Leave a little bit of a lip and you should be good.