My triumph over a piece of glass! (1 Viewer)

[boudster]

I am not a DIY-er....not at all, but nevertheless I decided to remove the scratched up front panel from my new custom tank so I can replace it Starphire. After several long hours I finally managed to get the piece removed, and although this would probably be a trivial task to most of you, I'm pretty darn proud of myself and have the photos to prove that I did it!

I know...I know...the glass is almost as big as me....I saw that joke coming from a mile away

(and I only cracked the trim a little bit , doesn't matter though, as it's in-wall and the trim isn't visible)

 

[alexmir]

Did you break the tank down or was it not filled yet? so you bought a new custom tank and the people scratched up the front glass?

 

[Niko5]

Very cool!!! I tried removing a piece of glass from the front of a tank I ended up getting mad and breaking it... on purpose

I dont know that I would have been IN the tank when i removed the glass but I guess it worked out

 

[MarkieB]

Good to see you conquerred!

Now how did the glass get scratched up? and what's up with the blue polka dotted shower curtain sliced up?

 

[Scott]

Now how did the glass get scratched up?

It was like that when he picked it up from the folks that made it for him.

 

[thangbom4321]

so about how many hr did it take?? plans to resilicone the new pane?? please document it when you do.. step by step plzz

 

[boudster]

It took me a good 3 hours.

I am replacing it with Starphire.....like Scott said, the tank was scratched when I picked it up....but they gave me a big discount....enough to pay for the Starphire front panel, so basically I'm getting a tank with a Starphire front for the same price as I would have paid for the regular glass.

I will document the step by step process for attatching the front pane in my tank build thread in general reefkeeping. It will give me something to do while I watch Scott do the silicon work

oh yeah....the blue shower curtain thingy is from Ikea....it just helps hide where all the equipment, sump, etc. is going to be.

 

[boudster]

I dont know that I would have been IN the tank when i removed the glass but I guess it worked out

Good point....good thing I don't weigh much I guess. Hopefully I didn't do any damage.

 

[crvz]

Good point....good thing I don't weigh much I guess. Hopefully I didn't do any damage.

Nah, I wouldnt worry about it unless you fell through the bottom. The rock you put in that sized tank will probably weigh more than you!

 

[melev]

I hope the new piece holds perfectly so you can enjoy the new tank finally. That didn't look like fun at all. There's a glass tank build thread on DFWMAS that might help you with the siliconing. David has built a few tanks and did a nice job documenting how to do it cleanly:

http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=41244

 

[boudster]

I hope the new piece holds perfectly so you can enjoy the new tank finally. That didn't look like fun at all. There's a glass tank build thread on DFWMAS that might help you with the siliconing. David has built a few tanks and did a nice job documenting how to do it cleanly:

http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=41244

Thanks!

BTW....are you still selling those acrylic camera boxes? I need to get me one of those.

 

[melev]

I don't know if I can answer that on this forum without breaking the rules. Just email me at melev@swbell.net

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