I did think about bending it, but I had loaned my heat bender to an old friend and it wasn't available. Also bending creates another problem. The inside of a bend bunches up making the piece wider and the outside of the bend stretches making the outside width narrower on the back side. So, ideally the entire width would need to be made oversized and then trimmed after bending to remove the undesirable ends of a bend. I use to do it all the time when I built custom tanks for Seascape in Mountain View back in the late 90's early 2000's when it was an awesome fish store and not the sad pet store that it turned into.Those are some nice angled cuts. Did you think at all about bending that one piece instead of mitering it?
I did think about bending it, but I had loaned my heat bender to an old friend and it wasn't available. Also bending creates another problem. The inside of a bend bunches up making the piece wider and the outside of the bend stretches making the outside width narrower on the back side. So, ideally the entire width would need to be made oversized and then trimmed after bending to remove the undesirable ends of a bend. I use to do it all the time when I built custom tanks for Seascape in Mountain View back in the late 90's early 2000's when it was an awesome fish store and not the sad pet store that it turned into.
I ordered a tank from Warrick at Seascapes that was almost the same size as the display tank he had on his counter.
When I made my sump, I used a a lot of cement on the seams, filled it with water and it still leaked. Definitely does not look as neat as your work. I will have to find out the secret to getting such a clean seam without excess solvent cement or air bubbles.
Water goes down through the taller filter sock and then up between the center acrylic channel to pour into the second filter sock.Thanks for sharing your technique and information sealing acrylic. Since I used #16, I ended up with a lot of bubbles and some leaks. I used vacuum to draw #16 through the leaking seam.