To watch small fishes in an aquarium is, at first sight, a boring and ordinary occupation. However not for those who love and appreciate wildlife. The aquarium is a unique underwater world where life proceeds by the rules. The price of aquariums is rather high, but it is possible to save considerably if a glass vessel to make with own hands.
It is required to you
- glasses, grinding bar, fabric, acetone, sealant, adhesive tape, tool for alignment of seams
Instruction
1. Buy glasses, not less than 8 mm thick. Edges of glasses need to be processed. For this purpose wet grinding bar and walk on an angular edge of glass about twenty times. In order to avoid chips it is necessary to move bar along glass. After processing of glasses, wipe them and leave to dry.
2. Prepare a surface on which you will carry out gluing together. It has to be equal and smooth, differently there can be a distortion.
3. By means of the fabric moistened in acetone degrease sites of glasses on which you will apply glue. That seams turned out equal, and glass was not soiled by sealant nearby, on edges of glass paste an adhesive tape.
4. By means of the fabric moistened in acetone degrease sites of glasses on which you will apply glue. That seams turned out equal, and glass was not soiled by sealant nearby, on edges of glass paste an adhesive tape.
5. Arrange glasses at right angle and connect by means of an adhesive tape. Such precautionary measure is necessary in order that glasses did not collapse.
6. Put in a right angle which was formed between glass edges, glue. The corner needs to be filled entirely therefore sealant, imposing on glass needs to be pressed. The seam will look beautifully if to level glue after drawing. It is possible to level by means of a furniture corner or the self-made pallet.
7. Remove protection in the form of an adhesive tape. Leave glasses to dry for day.
8. Create an internal seam that considerably will strengthen a design and will save it from a leak. This process is identical that it is described above, only for formation of a seam use a coin of suitable diameter.
9. Degrease the site of a prikleyka of a bottom and a bottom. Carefully lower it down. Edges of a bottom and sidewalls need to be leveled so that the gap in 3 mm turned out.
10. Impose protection in the form of adhesive tape strips. Apply glue in a seam. Leave an aquarium to dry.
11. Put a vessel sideways and paste a stiffening rib. Day later paste other edge. Leave an aquarium to dry for seven days.