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DIY Acrylic aquarium hood.

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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.
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great going sir, but did you try getting laser cut in chunna mandi. Choloroform to stick, this is news to me :)
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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.
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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?
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How did you cut the acrylic sheets to required size?
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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
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This is a good DIY

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following.Looks Nice
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coolbig WOW dada, i'll order my next hood from you :LOL
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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.
3.jpg
[/align]

3. Now fill chloroform in syringe.
1.jpg
[/align]


4. Apply chloroform in between the gaps of acrylic surface.
2.jpg
[/align]

5. Dont move it upto 3-4 hours to fix the surfaces. The hood is ready.
4.jpg
[/align]


Happy Fishkeeping.

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

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