I hope not. He's not a big company you'd be stealing his design from, he's a guy with an idea that's trying to do right and make it. I'd hate to think if it were your idea that you'd be happy about someone else copying it either, whether or not if they lived in your country.
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Building the mechanical structures is less than half the problem. Wiring and configuring the controls and calibrating the mechanics is the hard part. My advice is to stick with a company like cncrouterparts.com and make use of their fully integrated electronics packages. That way, you can also use their recommended calibration and machine setups. Trying to do that on your own will make learning to use Vcarve Pro seem trivial.
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Cast for sure, not only that but a particular grade of cast that glues better. He had a partner that used another type of cast, led to a bunch of problems, he had to rebuild some tanks. The partner is gone now...
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Figures, we did a lot of cast in the past and after having some specific issues with a customers products, we changed over to extruded, so I can't sneak a side panel here and there out of it
Not to mention I looked at the calculations for it and 1/2" thick acrylic won't get you a very big tank.
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I can tell you that they make 4ft sumps out of 3/8 all the time. There is a top piece that adds a bunch of strength. I don't think it would be good without the top piece. They don't make any of the actual tanks out of acrylic, glass only. Acrylic scratches too easily.
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That's interesting. When I was searching around about it, it appeared that acrylic tanks were commonly done. In fact, there are a couple of tv shows that show people making tanks and all they use is acrylic.
One of the sites had a link to a calculation tool and it showed all the pressures and how think you could use based on the sizes you input. 1/2" thick was pretty small, something like 24" x 18" x 18" or something like that.
It did have a selection for whether or not it had the top. I didn't know what that was, since I didn't know how you'd get the fish in if you glued a top on
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I assume it was not used in any structural application...
I don't use extruded for anything unless it is just for decoration or experimentation - only because I still have some on hand. But if I were to cut something like what goes in a picture frame, I would probably use extruded.
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