Hello folks,
Going to be making a pico tank soon and wanted to make a lid to go with the tank. Due to the size of the tank, I want to limit evaporation as much as possible, so I want a solid lid, not mesh.
My plan right now is to use 1/2 acrylic and cut it into strips about 1 inch wide. I would cut slots into those strips and then assemble them into a picture frame of sorts where the middle of the picture frame would be a piece of 1/8" thick glass. In the woodworking world we would call this design a floating panel. Here is some pictures I found online of someone building a floating panel out of wood (not as a lid but as a door).
Sooooooo my question is, do people think this will work? My main concern being the acrylic outside frame warping and breaking the glass.
Thoughts?
Going to be making a pico tank soon and wanted to make a lid to go with the tank. Due to the size of the tank, I want to limit evaporation as much as possible, so I want a solid lid, not mesh.
My plan right now is to use 1/2 acrylic and cut it into strips about 1 inch wide. I would cut slots into those strips and then assemble them into a picture frame of sorts where the middle of the picture frame would be a piece of 1/8" thick glass. In the woodworking world we would call this design a floating panel. Here is some pictures I found online of someone building a floating panel out of wood (not as a lid but as a door).
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Sooooooo my question is, do people think this will work? My main concern being the acrylic outside frame warping and breaking the glass.
Thoughts?
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