The aquarium is capable to recover any interior, but the prices of them are quite high now. The best exit in this situation to make an aquarium with own hands and not to spend big money for purchase of ready.
The following tools will be necessary for you:
- a gun which is intended for sealant expression;
- stationery knife;
- set of edges for the razor;
- paper painting adhesive tape 30 mm wide;
- the fine-grained grinding bar is useful if you plan to process glass edges independently.
It is possible to use a simple adhesive tape or an insulating tape. However dostatocho it is difficult to tear off the first, and the insulating tape will have an uneven edge
Process of production of an aquarium
If you ordered glasses without processing of edges, then it is necessary to process them. Take glass, establish on an edge. Wet grinding bar in water and press easily on an angular edge of glass there and back time 10-20. It is necessary to drive parallel to glass, but not across, and that can chips were created. Later on other angular edge we are passed. Then we turn by 90 degrees and we process the following two angular edges. Then process repeats. Pay attention that it is impossible to process glass edges which less than 10 mm because sealant well sticks stick only to a smooth surface, you should not matt it. After that you wipe glass and leave it to dry out.
Just before gluing together it is necessary to examine accurately all glasses and think over as you plan them to make that if there were any problems of cutting, then to move away them far away back. You watch that on which you glue a surface was equal without distortions. To make an aquarium really qualitative, it is necessary to be very accurate.
Take back and side flew down and accurately degrease them acetone. You wet a rag in acetone and with considerable pressing you wipe the stuck together edges of glasses, then it will be impossible to touch fat-free punishing. In a few minutes you wipe with a clean not fleecy rag. It is better to degrease in the fresh air, I advise to glue an aquarium on the balcony. Then on edges of glass it is necessary to paste a painting adhesive tape, it is necessary that there were equal seams and not to soil with a number of glass sealant.
From an external part we glue corners end-to-end with glass. Establish these glasses at right angle, it is convenient to check the square. From above we connect glasses an adhesive tape that they did not collapse. Take a tuba with sealant, establish in a gun, cut off a tip thus that the squeezed-out strip of glue corresponded to glass width, that is 10 mm.
It is necessary to squeeze out glue in a right angle which is formed by glass edges. Glue does not need to apply on glass, and to press slightly to glass that the corner was entirely filled and sealant perfectly stuck to glass. We apply glue then it is necessary to level it that the seam beautifully looked. We advise to apply a steel furniture corner which has a radius of a curve of 5 mm.
How to make an aquarium accurately
When putting glue it is necessary to remove surplus, consider that at a domazyvaniye the seam can be created not such beautiful as you would like. Remove protective strips on which there are residues of glue. Then leave an aquarium to dry out for day. The tuba needs to be closed something that glue did not dry. Every other day you form internal a galtel. That is in an aquarium make a concave seam which considerably will strengthen it and will not allow it to proceed.
Similar technique, it is necessary to degrease a surface, to apply adhesive tape strips, on distances from 5 to 7 mm from edge. Apply glue, make a seam a coin of the necessary size, remove protective strips from an adhesive tape. Leave to dry out for one day. In two days two glasses will be ready. Besides, it is possible to make all this for once, and in general there is an opportunity all four glasses to stick together for time. However, does not consult to hurry, here the main thing accuracy of work.
Then you continue everything in the same spirit, it is necessary to paste all other glasses of an aquarium – front and side. Now you understand that it is not so difficult to make an aquarium, but is very labor-consuming.
After that you degrease on the place of a prikleyka of a bottom and directly a bottom, carefully you put it. It is necessary that between edges of a bottom and sidewalls there were left 3 millimeters gaps. That is everything needs to be leveled. Paste protective strips. You squeeze out sealant in a seam, applying the thinnest nose. After drying process, put an aquarium sideways, and paste a stiffening rib, then the next day another. Then it is necessary to make a coupler in case it is supposed in an aquarium. Then leave an aquarium to dry out approximately for a week. It is possible to notice that sealant stiffens gradually in thick seams.