Mate - how annoying. She's a bloody deep tank though. There must be some extreme pressure at the bottom.
9' long 4'high 5'deep ply tank has begun.....kinda!
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spent some time in the tank this evening, looking over the sealant around the acrylic, it has bonded really well to the fibre glass, cant peel it off at all, although on the acrylic it self there are areas where it can be peeled back a bit, have to admit we only roughly sanded the acrylic and i'm wondering if this is the problem, i'm gonna cut all the sealant off and really thoroughly sand the front panel, make sure it's done enough this time, re seal and see what happens.
on a happier note, got the top brace/light housing tonight, it's not fitted but looks good i think, will reflect the light really well too.
on a happier note, got the top brace/light housing tonight, it's not fitted but looks good i think, will reflect the light really well too.
notanatheist;4480149; said:
had it totally full, water overflowing into the filter. held a four foot level on the front panel, evenly there was about 5mm between top and bottom of the level with the front panel so not a drastic amount of bowing at all.
old sealant cut out and removed now, i used an orbital sander to sand the panel and the surrounding fibre glass, then re sealed it all thoroughly yesterday and applied plenty of fibreglass resin/gel coat tonight along with approx. 30 metres of fibre glass matting tape all over the joint, covering about 8 inches width over all, using sealant and fibreglass as a double effort. doesn't look like it will leak at all now, just got to wait for it to cure for a few days before test filling again.
