Picking up the pieces: Have you used acrylic cement with your reef?

[mavl666]

Very timely topic, the mounting bracket on my skimmer let go from the base a few days ago. The skimmer is being held together by wishes right now but I need to actually put it back together properly. I was just going to use superglue but is Weld-on what I really should be using and the best stuff for the job?

My understanding is Weldon fuses the acrylic together.

 

[maroun.c]

I'm lucky to have an acrylic store close buy so I now send all my rellpairs to them. They have a more fluid gluing liquid and they do a much better job than I can do. For the skimmer lid repair I've broken a couple and what they did is clean up the broken part completely off , cut a similar diameter acrylic pipe to same size and glue it.

 

[ptrusk]

Methylene chloride. If there is a gap add a bit of acrylic shavings to make an emulsion. But I guess that is similar to different grades of Weldon. I imagine the other ingredients in Weldon affect the cure time.

Use a needle applicator not a syringe

 

[Pipo5]

My wife seen how mych i payed for my sump and went crazy lol.the same day i dropped and cracked it.there was no way i was going to tell her so i bought some weldon and fixed it its ben 2years still leak free.

 

[csnmusic02]

Built a 120 sting ray shark tank with Weldon 4 and 16 , used 4 to fix skimmer top and seal my phosphate reactor , and used to fix small leaks on various tanks I have had

 

[Troylee]

Very timely topic, the mounting bracket on my skimmer let go from the base a few days ago. The skimmer is being held together by wishes right now but I need to actually put it back together properly. I was just going to use superglue but is Weld-on what I really should be using and the best stuff for the job?

Yes Weldon if you wanna do it correctly

 

[AKLiving]

Weld-On is excellent. Just don’t expect the last seams to be as good as the first after half an hour of sniffing the stuff.

 

[Reef Obsession]

So this exact thing append to myself maybe a year or two after own my skimmer. I only had on chunk brake off the lid but I just used superglue. It’s been running flawlessly since for another 2 or 3 years. I wash it 2 to 3 time weekly under hot water with no issues.

 

[McPuff]

Weld-On is great and I recommend having two different viscosities on hand. Thicker for some jobs where you need to fill gaps and the really thin stuff for actual building or repairs where the edges meet up very closely.