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    Posted: November 26 2005 at 11:24am

I am getting a 150g and the center brace on it is broken and I need to fix it I kinda know how to do it but if some of you can post some picks or give there expert info on it that would help. glass or acrylic and what kind of adhisive did you use and where did you get it?

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Cut out the old brace and smooth it so that you can place a 4" wide piece of acrylic sitting on the plastic frame. Use Acrylic Weld-on #3 and clamp it to help it bond. This works very well.
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where can you get weld on #3
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Regional Supply would have it.
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I didn't have any luck getting acrylic glues to stick to the tank brace.  I tried Weld-on 4 and 16.  What I did was drill small holes through both the acrylic brace and the old old tank brace, then bolted them together using nylon (plastic) nuts and bolts.  It's worked fine so far.
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Using nylon bolts was my best suggestion too, until I saw it done at MSM. It might even be a good idea to see how much they would charge, probably about $20 and then it would be done right.

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I used the nylon bolts, too. It has worked good...
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Acrylic bonding to Abs can be done but doesn't offer the best bond due to how the glue works and the two diffrent bonding surfaces, I think for a long turm solution nylon nuts and bolts is the way to go but again this is MO.

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jfinch do you have a pic yhat you can post?
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Here's a bad picture (every time this topic comes up it's dark and I have to use a flash ).

And here's a thread where we talked about this:  http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4725

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I did mine with the tank full!
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where do you get your acrylic and the nylon bo;ts and nuts?
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you get the acrylic from regional supply and the nylon nuts and bolts from Lowes

 

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Thanks where is regional supply atand how much dose the acrylic run?
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about 3500 so and 300 west and get the pieces you need out of there scrap pile it might cost you $10.00 for both pieces,

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cool thanks eric and everyone else that replyed thanks for the pic jfinch it realy helped.
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I hope you like your new tank
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I love it but when I walked in the door my wife was having second thoughts.
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