Anyone out there willing to help me cut a small sheet of acrylic and round the edges? I want to give it a shot but would like to see it done first but someone who knows what they're doing. Seems like everyone has their own way of doing it from a cheap wood blade (table saw) to a $100 blade that's someone specialized.
Someone to cut acrylic?
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If you're going to do a sump I think it's a lot cheaper/easier to do it with glass. You can pick up a 15 or 20 gallon tank from Petco for $20. You can build the sections/baffles yourself by buying glass at a local hardware store much cheaper than acrylic. They'll cut the glass to size at half the cost of acrylic.
Rich,
Who did you order acrylic from? I stop at Plastic Depot in Torrance since it's near my office, the prices are 'fare', and I've been picking up sheets from the "odds/ends" bin which are only $4.50 a pound, but I've been looking for a cheaper source for larger cuts (4'x2').
Not to high-jack the thread regarding the comment to my post, but as for the sump, I don't like glass. Back in the '94 quake i lost some amazing fish in my glass tank (cracked in place). And overall, I just seem to have bad luck with glass, cracked the bottom of a Petco 10g (frag tank sump) just putting the collector cup on a NAC 3.5. That wouldn't happen to acrylic. Glass & I just don't get along.....
If you do need/want help, I have a miter slide saw with an 80t blade, and a good router. Trial and error has taught me a lot. We do make it down to OC about every other week.
Who did you order acrylic from? I stop at Plastic Depot in Torrance since it's near my office, the prices are 'fare', and I've been picking up sheets from the "odds/ends" bin which are only $4.50 a pound, but I've been looking for a cheaper source for larger cuts (4'x2').
Not to high-jack the thread regarding the comment to my post, but as for the sump, I don't like glass. Back in the '94 quake i lost some amazing fish in my glass tank (cracked in place). And overall, I just seem to have bad luck with glass, cracked the bottom of a Petco 10g (frag tank sump) just putting the collector cup on a NAC 3.5. That wouldn't happen to acrylic. Glass & I just don't get along.....
If you do need/want help, I have a miter slide saw with an 80t blade, and a good router. Trial and error has taught me a lot. We do make it down to OC about every other week.
