Plastic to biuld overflows
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Topic: Plastic to biuld overflows
Posted By: shipdawg
Subject: Plastic to biuld overflows
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 7:38pm
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I would like to know where you can get the black plastic to build some overflow boxes any one know were I can find it thanks
------------- Eagle Mountain 120 reef |
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Posted By: thefu
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 7:45pm
| Delvies in south slc. email them your cut list, pay by CC and pickup, couldnt be easier. |
Posted By: shipdawg
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 9:33pm
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whats the email
------------- Eagle Mountain 120 reef |
Posted By: Chad
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 9:35pm
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delviesplastics.com they will also ship the plastic to your door if you want to pay for the shipping instead of picking it up in person. ------------- What?! You pooped in the refrigerator, and ate the entire wheel of cheese?! I'm not even mad.... That's actually amazing! |
Posted By: tcfab
Date Posted: July 29 2009 at 10:42pm
| Regional Supply in SLC has it to and will deliver incase delvies doesn't have it. |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: July 30 2009 at 7:47pm
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I like to use Black ABS plastic over Acrylic for overflows, it is less brittle. 1/4" Black ABS runs about $58 a sheet for a 96 x 48" sheet at Laird Plastics. ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: shipdawg
Date Posted: July 30 2009 at 11:29pm
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I stopped buy delvies and they are only open form 9 - 2 for retail sales not good for me where is Regional and how late are they open
------------- Eagle Mountain 120 reef |
Posted By: shipdawg
Date Posted: July 30 2009 at 11:32pm
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Any one have some two pieces 24x6 and 2 pieces 24x4
------------- Eagle Mountain 120 reef |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 9:08am
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If you want to make your overflows out of Black ABS plastic, I have everything you need at my home in Eagle Mountain. I even have the router jig for the overflows.   ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: thefu
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 9:31am
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Those jigs are SWEET. Just curious, how do (or can you even) burnish the edges inside those combs so you don't slice your fingers when pulling out the algae...not that this has ever happened to me...  |
Posted By: shipdawg
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 9:45am
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rdbrown that would be great where in eagle mountain are you I am in city center
------------- Eagle Mountain 120 reef |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 10:04am
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I guess I don't know how you could cut your fingers on the ABS plastic when cleaning it out, it isn't sharp. I will post a photo later showing the finished comb on the overflows. ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: thefu
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 10:21am
| Well I cut mine on the acrylic comb in my sump as I was pulling off hunks of hair algae and loose macro. I noticed afterward that the edges if the sump had been burnished in some fashion but the comb had not. The routed edges of the comb were razor sharp. |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 11:12am
You can use a deburring tool like the one below, or run a torch flame over it. I don't like using acrylic for baffles / combs / overflows because of the brittleness of acrylic. They are to easily bumped and teeth broken. It is also easy to break the teeth just cutting out the teeth. The ABS isn't brittle, has some flexibility to it, isn't sharp like the acrylic. ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: Chad
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 11:37am
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I use acrylic just for my overflow strainers just because it's cheap and easy but I make my cuts a little smaller than that pic and I make them not so close together so that they don't break so easily and if you torch the teeth it makes the edges not so sharp. ------------- What?! You pooped in the refrigerator, and ate the entire wheel of cheese?! I'm not even mad.... That's actually amazing! |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 12:05pm
ABS is about 1/2 the cost of acrylic. That is another reason I use it. I also like that it has a texture on one side.    ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: tcfab
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 4:45pm
Those look like some nice tanks there, got anymore pics
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Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 6:03pm
I have a lot of pictures of tanks I have built. Anything in particular you are looking for?     This one I just made the lid.   ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 02 2009 at 10:21am
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Beautiful work!
Mike -------------  |
Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 02 2009 at 4:30pm
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Thanks ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: tcfab
Date Posted: August 02 2009 at 10:49pm
Those look pretty good, nice work. Quick question, I need to build some overflows and I have always used acrylic but I think I would like to try some of that black abs you are talking about. Is it anymore flexable that acrylic or is it just as rigid? Also how do you glue this stuff together?
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Posted By: rdbrown
Date Posted: August 02 2009 at 11:49pm
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It is a little more plyable then acrylic. It has some flexibility to it, which is why it doesn't break as easily. I weld it just the same as I do acrylic using Weldon #4, it also will weld to acrylic. ------------- Kauai, Hawaii |
Posted By: tcfab
Date Posted: August 02 2009 at 11:59pm
| cool, thanks. I will give it a try. |