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Post by robert on Oct 2, 2015 21:55:58 GMT -5
I recently resealed a 125 gallon I bought off craigslist, I've never resealed a tank this big. I guess the question I'm trying to ask is should I have used a lot of silicone to do a big tank or do I really just need to fill the seams? I haven't water tested it yet mostly because I'll be doing that in my basement and I have gotten around to carrying it down there but it looks like it should hold water. Anybody ever had a tank start leaking soon after a reseal?
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Post by foggman on Oct 3, 2015 7:11:39 GMT -5
What was the reason you resealed it? Was the silicone looking bad or did it have an active leake, I only ask because I just resealed my 150, it was actively leaking and witch meens the seam between thebpannels was compromised, the whole front bottom was full of sand and I had to remove the front panebof glass to clean it and reseal. If you did it just cause the seams in the tank didn't look great then you should be all set, just make sure you cleaded the area good with acitone the silicone won't stick to oils even the ones your fingers leave behind
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Post by robert on Oct 4, 2015 16:20:01 GMT -5
After I bought it I actually "resealed" it once but I just put new silicone over the old silicone and it didn't leak after I tested it, but I was thinking about how I did it and decided to look up the right way to do it and then I re-did it, when I was re-doing it I cleaned it really good and scraped ALL of the old silicone off and acitoned it after and I did all the seams at the same time because I guess you just shouldn't do it in sections
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Post by foggman on Oct 4, 2015 21:54:10 GMT -5
You should be OK then I would think, I haven't had a problem with doingbit like that as long as the seal between the pains isn't touched
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