Cast acrylic pieces or acrylic builders?

[tygunn]

After doing some heat loss calculations I'm thinking I may just try to do an outdoor reef on my North facing apartment patio.

Im thinking to do a 24" cube and use 1/2" acrylic.

Anyone know a local source that could provide accurately cut pieces? Guess I should consider just having it built for me to save the assembly since I have not done a lot with acrylic in the past.

Thanks.

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[tr1gger]

Custom acrylic tanks I would check out advanced acrylics down in LA

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[aqua-nut]

Custom acrylic? I highly recommend Kritter Tanks in Menlo Park. They build my 120g tank and tanks for a few others in BAR. They are also a BAR sponsor! www.krittertanks.com

 

[tygunn]

Thanks for the ideas aqua-nut and tr1gger. I'll have to check them both out.

Kritter tanks gets a +1 for location for sure. Heh.

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[Vincerama2]

Tap Plastic cuts acrylic. Not sure how good their prices are.

 

[rygh]

Tap plastic cuts, but not what I would call accurately.
DIY for sumps makes sense. But it is fairly hard to get perfect joints with no visible imperfections.
So for a display tank, +1 on kritter tanks.

 

[tygunn]

OK I'll try tap for rough cut pieces and cut them accurately on a table saw... Though I'm not building the tank right now I do need to make a housing for my rapid leds light I built for my 37g build. Thanks.

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[JAR]

I have a bunch of 3/4 acrylic. What sizes are you looking for?

 

[tygunn]

To house the lights I'm looking to basically build a 14 x 4 x 9 box, or thereabouts. I was only going to use 1/4 inch. 3/4 is likely a wee bit overkill.

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[JAR]

heavy too