Bought this 300 gallon wrap-aroound beauty for a lot--a lot for me. Shippers cracked the bottom. Like an idiot, I did not insure during shipping. Leaks at bottom. If I fix the links, does anyone know if it might shatter over time?
The bottom is made of three pieces of 1/2 inch glass. The middle piece has two banana shaped cracks running about 14 inches to the back of the tank. The tank has a wooden apron running around it and is itself sitting on 1/2 solid teak based. In other words, if you lift the tank off the stand, it has 1/2 inch of solid wood base attached all around the bottom. So the tank sits on the 1/2 inch solid wood and the 1/2 inch solid wood sits on the base. I have attached a picture of the tank bottom. You can see a couple of extra pieces of glass have been siliconed over the crack that runs from the center to the upper right of the picture.
I'm about to try to cover the bottom where the cracks are entirely with GE Type 1 silicon. And if that doesn't work I may get an above ground swimming pool liner and find an adhesive to adhere it to the entire bottom of the tank, basically to create a lining for this compromised tank.
So my question is, if I manage to stop the leak, and it holds without shattering catastrophically for, for example three days, then will it hold over time? My hope is that if it holds for a few days, then it will probably hold for 30 years. I can't see the bottom of the glass cracking any more because the weight of the water is supported by the wood underneath the glass, not the glass itself.
Does anyone know if a cracked glass bottom that has been made waterproof is at risk of just breaking out the wood underneath and shattering catastrophically?
The bottom is made of three pieces of 1/2 inch glass. The middle piece has two banana shaped cracks running about 14 inches to the back of the tank. The tank has a wooden apron running around it and is itself sitting on 1/2 solid teak based. In other words, if you lift the tank off the stand, it has 1/2 inch of solid wood base attached all around the bottom. So the tank sits on the 1/2 inch solid wood and the 1/2 inch solid wood sits on the base. I have attached a picture of the tank bottom. You can see a couple of extra pieces of glass have been siliconed over the crack that runs from the center to the upper right of the picture.
I'm about to try to cover the bottom where the cracks are entirely with GE Type 1 silicon. And if that doesn't work I may get an above ground swimming pool liner and find an adhesive to adhere it to the entire bottom of the tank, basically to create a lining for this compromised tank.
So my question is, if I manage to stop the leak, and it holds without shattering catastrophically for, for example three days, then will it hold over time? My hope is that if it holds for a few days, then it will probably hold for 30 years. I can't see the bottom of the glass cracking any more because the weight of the water is supported by the wood underneath the glass, not the glass itself.
Does anyone know if a cracked glass bottom that has been made waterproof is at risk of just breaking out the wood underneath and shattering catastrophically?