BadFish's DIY Vol.2: Don't Be a Chump, Build Your Own Sump

[Badfish]

Cut List
1x 18”x36” Sump Base
2x 16”x36” Sump Face/ Back
2x 17 1/2” x16” Sump Sides
1x 17 1/2” x16” Fuge Wall
3x 12”x17 1/2” Bubble Trap
1x 6”x6” Filter Sock holder

Use a sharpie to mark your cut lines on the blue plastic that the acrylic comes wrapped in. Then make them cuts.

*********If you choose to cut the acrylic yourself with a power saw make sure you are comfortable using them, they can be very dangerous!************
Cutting tips.
-It’s best to a saw blade for made for cutting plastic, if you don’t have one use a blade with the smallest teeth you have.
-Another trick is you can turn the saw blade around, so it spins the same way but the teeth face the other way.
- Make sure you use safety glasses. When you cut the acrylic the “saw dust” left from the acrylic is hot, melted plastic shards and eye balls don’t mix well. The “saw dust” will also feel hot when it lands on your skin so don’t be surprised and jump around and accidently cut yourself when this happens, and it will.

So after you have all of the acrylic sheets cut it’s now time to prepare the acrylic for gluing, sand the edges to remove the all burs until they are somewhat smooth. Then cut the painter’s tape in to around 6” strips and place them under the bottom sheet and stick the reset close for easy access.

Then I remove the blue wrapping from the edges on all the sheets to be glued, so it doesn’t get in the way when you glue, and the acrylic is still somewhat protected.

After that just lay down the beads of Weld-on#16 and place the sheets as shown,
*RED = Weld-on#16