Very nice, how do you cut the acrylic? Laser cutter?
Initial pieces are sized on a 10" tablesaw using a 60 - 80 tooth triple-chip carbide blade. All edges to glued are trimmed with a fence and router. After gluing, the remaining saw cut edges are trimmed with a flush trim router bit (router bit with bearing on top). I chose not to flame polish, because it actually stresses the acrylic and can ultimately lead to crazing (stress cracks).
I could use a friend that can work acrylic.
Man I need to carve out some space to set up routing table. I've been trying to trim route stuff by hand and it never turn out well lol.
I could probably help, or at least give you some advice to what's going wrong.
I'm assuming you have to have an external pump to keep it primed?
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The connector at the top.
I'm assuming you have to have an external pump to keep it primed?
You can just connect a piece of new airline tubing and a small valve to the top overflow connector and suck out the air when it accumulates over time. Ideally you should connect an aqua-lifter input to the top connection of the overflow and direct the aqua-lifter output to the sump. Then have your tank controller or timer run the aqua-lifter for a minute once a day. The overflow is designed to NOT lose prime in the event of a power outage.
For the teeth part, did you run a few cut each on the table saw? How did you make the inner edge clean.
Looks crazy nice, very impressed! Is it a glass tank? Otherwise why not drill it.
So how exactly does it get water up and over the edge? I know the thing on top was referenced but how does it work?
Sorry I missed the seeing the question. Thanks Vince for answering the question and providing the video.Should be like the CPR hob overflow box