Newbie hoping for acrylic advice

[magicniner]

Most commercial builders of aquaria use bonded square corners in tanks even with capacities of thousands of gallons, the adhesives are not a "glue" they are a mixture of solvent and acrylic and if properly used produce a weld. Cylindrical tanks are manufactured by bending a sheet into a ring and solvent/acrylic welding the joint, this is subsequently sanded and polished to a near invisible join.
I wouldn't buy a tank with a bent corner in it unless I'd specified that in my order, I'd go to a manufacturer capable of working with industry standard materials to industry standards.

[Boyan Silyavski]

He said he does not want to use bracing bars in first post. I am just suggesting a better looking front. I know its not just "glue " but a weld. Anyway, when i was into aquariums, I made them from glass, even now i don't see the point making them from acrylic.

[magicniner]

even now i don't see the point making them from acrylic.

It's far harder to shatter, under prolonged stress it cold-flows rather than deflecting until it reaches failure point, the tank is one welded component with the associated reduction in risk of long-term leak formation at adhesive/build-material interfaces.......

[JAZZCNC]

Well my prefered method of containing fish is in my Belly. . . .Yum Yum.

Hey, now we have Britian Back and our Fishing waters will the price of Fish n Chips come down.?

[AndyGuid]

Hey, now we have Britian Back and our Fishing waters will the price of Fish n Chips come down.?

I wouldn't be that sure that we "have Britain back".
I would think it's more a case of we flunked the first test!
Question is when will we be made to resit the test or how else will they weasel out of the majority vote? Mark my words.

[magicniner]

Hey, now we have Britian Back and our Fishing waters will the price of Fish n Chips come down.?

Not unless we borrow some Gun Boats from Iceland ;-)