acrylic help

[gjuarez]

Guys, I bought an old sump from a friend and it has some compartments that I dont need and I dont want. It has a place for a built in skimmer and I dont want it. I only want to use it as a fuge. How can I take it apart? Is there any special way to do so? What tools do I need? Please help as I cant wait to setup my tank. Pete? Reefone?
Jerry

[Henry]

with a saw, dremell, roto zip.

[pilot_bell777]

The biggist problem is getting the tools in there to do the job. I just cut the center wall out of mine so I could add some baffels and it was a PITA. Got the baffels is and it doesn't look too bad.

If you can get a jig saw in there, use a metal or acrylic blade and don't push. Other than that......a 1,000,000,000 passes with razor knife. Maybe a small handheld hacksaw.

depending on space....take a hacksaw blade, cut it in half, wrap one end with a TON of duct tape.....

Unless Master Pete or Kind ReefOne can share something different, that's all I can say to do. If they do though.....guess I should have asked the same questions a week ago! LOL

[::pete::]

If its a good bond its going to be almost impossible to get out. Your best bet is a tool that will fit in there and cut as close as you can.

[pilot_bell777]

Maybe this will give me a reason to buy a dremel too.....LOL

[gjuarez]

Hmm, so a dremel will do the job? It is a very good bond. I guess I will just start cutting because I think taking it apart is out of the question.

[gjuarez]

i thought about that too

[pilot_bell777]

as easy as it is to GUM it up and then the GUM sticks to everything and you CAN"T get it off, I wouldn't try that.


JMO

[hobogato]

i cut some acrylite with a heavy duty cut off disk on a dremmel. it works great, just don't force it and buy a bunch of them, because they break pretty fast. dremmel even makes an attachment that extends the tip out with a bendable shaft (i think), that may help with the space issue.

[::pete::]

yes they do.

[aquadoc]

Yeah the bendable shaft is the best. Not haveing to hold the bulky dremmel, and only hold like a marker size shaft that you can be more creative with any project.

[LoneStar]

I have a dynafile at work... Its a nice hand held pneumatic belt sander. Comes in handy soooo many times.

http://www.pathon.com/dynafile.htm

After cutting the acrylic I'll bet it would do a great job sanding it down ;)

[gjuarez]

Do you guys know if Home Depot rents out those?

[aquadoc]

Not sure? Try A-Z rental. htey might have something.

[hobogato]

they aren't that expensive, and are pretty usefull for alot of things IMO

[matt]

There is a possible problem here. If you remove the baffles, you have significantly weakend the structure and it might not hold when full of water. Hard to say without seeing it.