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Originally Posted by Tommy Gun  Out of curiousity...
Do you think it is impossible to drill a hole in tempered glass...or at least way too risky to even try it? |
It is impossible to drill or even cut glass once it has been tempered. Well i have heard it is possible to cut it with tin snips under six feet of water, this is because the pressure of the water is greater than the glass, on the other hand once you bring it up and the pressure goes back any flaw you left will cause it to break.
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Originally Posted by Tommy Gun Can you explain how glass is tempered? For some reason I thought it was heated up or something but wouldn't that make it challenging to keep a hole the same size and shape? Maybe I am thinking about tempered steel or metal. |
Glass is tempered by heating it to a certain degrees(i don't know exactly what degree) then cooled down at a certain rate. I do know that it is not heated to complete melting, glass also does not get real runny when melted(ever watch someone blow glass) so the hole stays the same.
Just a little useless knowledge here but glass is classified as a liquid it's entire life. If you take an old piece of glass out of some antique it will be thicker at the bottom than at the top.
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Originally Posted by Tommy Gun I recently saw a 1200 gallon cylinder aquarium and I am dying to know how they made it. I am 99.999% sure that it didn't have any seams at all so I was thinking someone must have some sort of machine to make a tank like that....but on the other hand, I don't know how many people would be willing to buy a tank like that so I am not sure if anyone would be willing to build or more importantly, pay for what has to be a huge machine. |
The only way i can think of how that was done was it was poured on a dye soon after the silica sand was melted and was still hot.
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Originally Posted by Tommy Gun Are you going to post a bunch of pictures and your experiences building this tank? (or have you already started?) I think that would be extremely interesting and helpful for those of us who would love to have a completely custom aquarium. |
No i have not yet started it ordering the bottom glass Monday. I do plan to take a lot of pictures, i will require help on this build it's not something that can be done by yourself. Most likely will get my wife to take the pics.
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Originally Posted by Tommy Gun I recently saw a little blurb about a guy who transformed what amounted to a walk in closet into an aquarium down in his basement and I would LOVE to do that. I think he even had to cut a hole in a first floor room in order to access the tank and would literally have to go swimming in order to scrape the glass and vacuum out wastes!!!!!!!!!! However, as bright as the guy must be, he did have quite a few sting rays in the tank so I don't know if I would want to be swimming with them based upon Mr. Irwin's experience. |
I also saw this and it was awesome although i'm not fond of the stingrays and i agree with not swimming with them.
