Hi all.
I recently purchased a frag tank from advanced acrylic. I priced out building my own from a local acrylics store and it was actually about 25 bucks cheaper to buy built!
I made a few quick racks to test my set up and breakdown which went well. I set up at the December meeting. But some of the corals fell out during travel and a few even broke off of their plugs.
I had an idea to sandwich a piece of epdm liner between acrylic sheets and the rubber will hold the plugs firmly in the holes.
1st stop my local plastics shop (shout out to laird plastics in Warwick they always have cut off scraps for 20 bucks or less!
Then off to my friends (@jason401) machine shop to mill the acrylic as these need 100% identical.
Here's the computerized Bridgeport milling machine
There they are done. I'm going to punch the rubber this week. Originally I was going to thread the small holes and use nylon screws but it became easier just to buy nylon nuts ($ 6.00 for 100)
More to follow when I punch the epdm pond liner
I recently purchased a frag tank from advanced acrylic. I priced out building my own from a local acrylics store and it was actually about 25 bucks cheaper to buy built!
I made a few quick racks to test my set up and breakdown which went well. I set up at the December meeting. But some of the corals fell out during travel and a few even broke off of their plugs.
I had an idea to sandwich a piece of epdm liner between acrylic sheets and the rubber will hold the plugs firmly in the holes.
1st stop my local plastics shop (shout out to laird plastics in Warwick they always have cut off scraps for 20 bucks or less!
Then off to my friends (@jason401) machine shop to mill the acrylic as these need 100% identical.
Here's the computerized Bridgeport milling machine
There they are done. I'm going to punch the rubber this week. Originally I was going to thread the small holes and use nylon screws but it became easier just to buy nylon nuts ($ 6.00 for 100)
More to follow when I punch the epdm pond liner