Here's a tank that I've been working on. It's to be a combination prop and display. For now, it's been swapped in place of my 40g prop tank which had run out of room. Got it up and running at 4am this morning.
This started out as a used 24x48x20 Tru Vu. I cut it down to 16" tall and eurobraced with 1/2" acrylic. I ran a round over bit around the inside and outside of the top to take off the sharp edge like how Tru Vu does on their prop tanks.
There were some decent scratches on the tank, and I tried polishing acrylic for the first time. Wasn't all that hard to do, and I was surprised by the results. I wet sanded with 2000, then 2500, and followed up with Novus 3, then Novus 2.
I took a quick and dirty approach to the mods because I wanted to get something running fast. If I were to do a real showpiece, I should have taken about 3 times longer to route all the glue surfaces and do a better polish job.
This started out as a used 24x48x20 Tru Vu. I cut it down to 16" tall and eurobraced with 1/2" acrylic. I ran a round over bit around the inside and outside of the top to take off the sharp edge like how Tru Vu does on their prop tanks.
There were some decent scratches on the tank, and I tried polishing acrylic for the first time. Wasn't all that hard to do, and I was surprised by the results. I wet sanded with 2000, then 2500, and followed up with Novus 3, then Novus 2.
I took a quick and dirty approach to the mods because I wanted to get something running fast. If I were to do a real showpiece, I should have taken about 3 times longer to route all the glue surfaces and do a better polish job.