Fer sure man. Unless someone shows real soon and convinces me that this wont work Im planning on starting construction tomorrow or the next day. THis gonna be way cool. The whole thing is will be DIY. Filtration, lights, temp control . If I can build it cheaper and maybe even better - I`ll build...
Read this ?
Especially the part about tensile strength of annealed vs. tempered glass.
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How to Calculate the...
Google hit the jackpot !
How to calculate glass thickness for any size tank:
Anyone who even Thinks about building a tank should read this.
http://www.fnzas.org.nz/articles/technical/glass_complete/
I crunched the numbers using the tensile strength of heat treated glass. Heat treating , as I...
Yea, since double pane glass isnt any stronger than single pane it makes sense to take it apart. A piece weighs about 200 lbs. anyway. Then make the front and back out of the 2 pieces and cut the ends from 1/4 plain old plate annealed. I think it would be a lot simpler in the long run to sit...
Yea for sure, every foot would mess up the view so much it wouldnt be worth doing. But I could live with one from top to bottom at the center and equidistantly form each. Basically its looking like a framework around the top and bottom, all 4 corner edges and 3 along each face. The largest...
I posted this in another forum and it didnt get vary far, hopefully this is a better place. I have 2 insulated glass panels. They are each about 36x80x1 and consist of (2) 1/4 inch tempered glass panels seperated by an air space. Tempered glass is about 4 to 6 times stronger than regular glass...
LOL Thanks for your opinion man. But like I said, the idea is to reinforce the glass with verticle supports to make up for its undersizeedness . THe question is how many supports and at what spacing ? It`s pretty obvious that if they were spaced every foot it would hold. But whats the maximum...
as an aquarium front and/or back ?Tthey are about 36x80 or so and constructed of 1/4 tempered glass. I realize that there`s no way that 1/4 inch could hold over that depth and span, but I`m thinking that with a verticle support or two spaced along the span it would work. . . Would mess-up the...
