It's jojo's diy acrylic cube tank

[Lazydayz]

Its coming together nicely!!

 

[its.jojo]

Its coming together nicely!!

Thanks! I’m excited!

 

[its.jojo]

Here’s the poplar strips installed with banner tape (water resistant double sided tape)

 

[its.jojo]

And a couple shots of the stand when I test fitted the doors (before paint)

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Great Build !!! Following>>>

 

[its.jojo]

Great Build !!! Following>>>

Thank you!

 

[This guy is Extra Salty]

Nice build BTW bowing of rimless acrylic tanks are normal. Well a slight bow lol

 

[its.jojo]

Nice build BTW bowing of rimless acrylic tanks are normal. Well a slight bow lol

Lol. I’m not (too) worried about it failing. But it stands out when I look at it. Plus it’s an excuse to work on this new build. :)

I’ll posts pics of the bowing!

 

[Barnabie Mejia]

good looking build so far!!! keep it up!

 

[its.jojo]

Here a straight edge lined up along the tank that shows the bowing.

 

[MrWheelock]

Some of the 300 gallon displays at my LFS have a huge bow in them, everytime in got there it bothers me. Yours doesn't look terrible, but i can understand the concern

 

[MrWheelock]

Oh and the build looks great, following for sure

 

[Silent]

Let me know when you are gonna sell that bowed scrap acrylic :p
You probably shouldnt use that anymore lol

 

[Silent]

BTW current build looks pretty awesome.

 

[its.jojo]

Let me know when you are gonna sell that bowed scrap acrylic :p
You probably shouldnt use that anymore lol

Come on down to San Antonio. It’s likely gonna be scrapped if now one takes it.

 

[Silent]

I wish. That would be quite a drive from Maryland.

 

[its.jojo]

Going to post this a little out of order. Some work went into the door latches and door trim. I’ll post that another time.

For now here’s some pictures of the stand. Painted and everything. Just need some lighting under it and a way to mount the fuge light.

 

[its.jojo]

With the stand built, it’s time to get ready for building the tank. But first I’ll need to gather some things and fix my router table set up.

The router table was really not flat anymore since it has double as a work table since my last tank build. So I need to change the top.

 

[its.jojo]

I went with melamine from Lowe’s. I figured it would be slicker and easier to clean than the mdf that I used last time.

Overlay the old top so I can line up the pre drill holes.

I used the plate as a template that came with the router to make the mounting holes.

Here’s the router installed.

I marked the rotation direction of the router as a reminder of which way to feed the material.

 

[its.jojo]

This is the only router bit that I’ve ever used for edge prep on acrylic.