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Originally Posted by scolley
Let us know if it hold water. And good luck!
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Well, it does
And for one week now !
Pictures can be seen here:
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/di...less-122g.html
Some more details:
The tank is 136x59.5x57 (cm) or for you american friends 53x23x22"
Glass thickness 12mm (1/2 inch)
Polished and beveled edges.
Deflection:
After filling, measured deflection (using same method as Scolley with a ruller sitting on the top edges but longer the the width of tank
) at the top centre is 5mm total, i.e. 2.5mm per panel (front & back)
According to StGobain website and calculation page (I can post link but it's all in french an full of mathematics formulas
) it is acceptable.
Silicone:
I bought it from a aquarium specialized french web-store (
www.europeen-trading.com), as only standard grade was available in the UAE.
It is silicone for gluing aquarium, brand is
Soudal, name
Silirub AQ.
Here i the link to their website (I think it is a belgian company):
http://www.soudal.com/soudal.asp?o=C...id=1068&lan=EN
You can download a datasheet from there. The technical datas are very close to the GE silicone used by Scolley.
Price was 4.30 Euros (5.40 US$) per cartridge including shipping (to France not to UAE...)
Something I did not mention in my previous post is that, following Wendle's advice, I was extremely carefull for not letting the silicone cartridge nozzle touch the glass while laying the silicone "worm" on it. I cut it wide, as adviced by Wendle, and most probably the more difficult is to hold the tip at constan height above glass while going forward and applying pressure to the gun to get a constant flow...
I was getting better at this while doing the last panel
I used one cartridge for gluing the sides first. It was not empty then but I started to lay silicone on the front panel with a new cartridge to avoid laying the silicone worm with a "cut" in the middle.
I did the same for the back, so I used 2 and 1/2 cartriges.
Here is the picture of tank just after finishing the assembly process:
Hope this will help....
I will be happy to answer any question if you need some more details !
Once again thank you all for all the advices and tips !
Without that, and without Scolley incredible multiple threads describing with all possible details his heroic adventure, I would never have imagine I was able to try that and even better to achieve it at my first try !!!!
But with this incredible amount of shared information there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to do it !
Merci Monsieur Scolley and Merci to everybody who contributed to the adventure !
Sietch