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DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 8:31 pm
by SCORPIO
Recently I designed an black acrylic hood for my aquarium. Just want to share my DIY Project with everyone. So here is the procedure of making a DIY Hood.

Material Needed: Acrylic, Chloroform, Syringe, Sandpaper

Procedure:

1. Rub the surface of acrylic with sandpaper to make it smooth.

2. Arrange the acrylic sheets to form the hood with any support.
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3. Now fill chloroform in syringe.
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4. Apply chloroform in between the gaps of acrylic surface.
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5. Dont move it upto 3-4 hours to fix the surfaces. The hood is ready.
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Happy Fishkeeping.

Tomorrow I will add the procedure to make legs of hood.

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:05 pm
by syed.ali
great going sir, but did you try getting laser cut in chunna mandi. Choloroform to stick, this is news to me :)

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 8:54 pm
by SCORPIO
syed.ali wrote:great going sir, but did you try getting laser cut in chunna mandi. Choloroform to stick, this is news to me :)
Do you have any address from where I can got laser cut Acrylic? Chloroform does not sticks acrylic, It welds acrylic sheets.

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 12:54 am
by cichlids
Nice DIY Rajiv. I would like to know the dimension of hood, especially the height.
How would you make this sit on aquarium? Will it be a hanging type or have you provided any stand for it?

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 8:49 am
by aawnaik
How did you cut the acrylic sheets to required size?

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 9:55 am
by SCORPIO
cichlids wrote:Nice DIY Rajiv. I would like to know the dimension of hood, especially the height.
How would you make this sit on aquarium? Will it be a hanging type or have you provided any stand for it?
Today evening I will show the legs of the hood.
aawnaik wrote:How did you cut the acrylic sheets to required size?
I ordered the desired size of sheets to the shopkeeper. Just paid Rs. 450 for acrylic required for 3 footer hood

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:06 pm
by sushant
This is a good DIY

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Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:12 am
by Somen
following.Looks Nice

Re: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:01 am
by vikramdutta11
coolbig WOW dada, i'll order my next hood from you :LOL

Re: RE: DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:01 am
by geeth
SCORPIO wrote:Recently I designed an black acrylic hood for my aquarium. Just want to share my DIY Project with everyone. So here is the procedure of making a DIY Hood.

Material Needed: Acrylic, Chloroform, Syringe, Sandpaper

Procedure:

1. Rub the surface of acrylic with sandpaper to make it smooth.

2. Arrange the acrylic sheets to form the hood with any support.
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3. Now fill chloroform in syringe.
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4. Apply chloroform in between the gaps of acrylic surface.
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5. Dont move it upto 3-4 hours to fix the surfaces. The hood is ready.
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Happy Fishkeeping.

Tomorrow I will add the procedure to make legs of hood.
Rajive sir waiting for updates

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