ware to get weldon??
 

iam makeing a DIY skimmer for my nano but i cant find weldon #3 dos anyone in the lower mainland know ware to go? also anyone have tips on makeing a small skimmer this is my first time doing anything with acrilic and iam hopeing to make a tank latter depending on how the skimmer turns out:biggrin:

industrial plastics and paints
http://www.ippnet.com/EN/main/locations/2621.html

Doesn't home depot and those stores sell it as well?

I couldn't find any in the boonies where I live so I made my own. Take acrylic chips and cuttings and put them in a glass jar, cover the acrylic pieces with acetone let it sit overnight and you've got your cement. I built a 17 gal using this stuff and it's been holding for a month. You can make any thickness you want. Just change the amount of acetone you use in the jar. If it's too thin let the jar sit open for a while acetone is very volatile and will evaporate leaving a thickened product. Wal mart has the acetone in the painting section, it comes in 1l tin cans for about $9.

HTH
Brad

thanks spoot they dident have any in stock but there going to phone me back:biggrin:

hillbillyreefer: i dont think makeing my own would work sence it cant be vary thick, i have to use(and find)an aplicater bottle with a fine tip and i think any bits of acrylic would clog it, the skimmer iam makeing is only 14"HX2.5"LX1"W

ol nobodaddy: no ive tried HD and they dident know what i was talking about:rolleyes: , i just hope they have 1/2" IDX 5/8" OD CPVC pipe when i go back to make the skimmer injector

Here's a few more,

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Britis...s/2286180.html

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Albert...cs/863583.html

My first batch had a water like consistency. There are no chunks the acrylic dissolves in the acetone. My second batch I wanted thicker so I used less acetone. It had the consistency of a paste. To apply I used about a 5 cc syringe with a sixteen gauge needle. Once the acetone evaporates the acrylic hardens back to plastic and your done. It only takes a couple minutes to harden.

Plastic Works
 

This place is great. I got some weld-on from them last week and they were open until 5:30 so it gave me some time to get up there. I spent some time and talk to one of the guys who worked there because they do custom one-off designs too! I just got my 75g reef tank up and running but I think I'll be going back to these guys to design my new sump in a couple months.

Surrey PlasticWorks Ltd.
101 - 7808 132nd Street
Surrey, BC
V3W 4N1

www.plasticworks.ca

Phone # 604-501-9033

-Tony