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New Tank Delivered Today..Need Help...Cosmetic or Bad seams
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Cabinetman
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Good for you! Glad to hear you got your money back. Now find a good builder to build you a good tank
Robert Vacchiano
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Glad to hear your almost done with everything. I had a 300 gallon leak on me so you would not have wanted to start out with a tank with bad seams. It was actually a blessing that the tank was that bad and you did not use it because it would have eventually leaked
OK, Now I have good news! Builder's wife called. She said they are not going to contest the dispute!! She made no mention of the tank or what to do with it. But its over and I am whole!!
She also said they hired a lawyer to deal with trucking company because there are several other "damaged" tanks that the trucking company is denying responsibility.
Go figure!!
She also said they hired a lawyer to deal with trucking company because there are several other "damaged" tanks that the trucking company is denying responsibility.
Go figure!!
Brew12
Electrical Gru
Fantastic!
If they really are going after the trucking company I feel sorry for them. I can see that not ending well. Unless they hired the shipping company to assemble the tanks while they were being shipped. Then they might have a case! It also might explain the seams!
9 pages of reading and still wondering who the builder was... I feel like each page is an episode and I gotta wait till the next weeks episode to find out what happened :[
Next week on Reef2Reef garbage tank builders we will find out who shipped the hunk of junk to Y2K
haha
Next week on Reef2Reef garbage tank builders we will find out who shipped the hunk of junk to Y2K
haha
Brew12
Electrical Gru
I had to check them out. Their website is down. Guessing they have some issues.
I'm driving there to pick it up so it should be better that way but I'm still driving 8 hours to pick it up so would suck to get there and have to tell them I'm not taking it because it's doesn't look good
melev
Avid Hobbyist
I just read this whole thread, had to see how it played out over the nice chapters. "Shock sensor" is a new one to me. Wood that can break, will break. Drilling a hole and inserting a dowel in that spot only weakens the lumber.
Horrible seamwork, and I've been working with acrylic for 15 years. That tank had issues before it left the building.
Look, we can all pile on a company. Here's a true story for years ago at MACNA. I was helping a vendor unpack their boxes to set up their booth, and when I opened up a packed acrylic display tank, three of the four walls were completely off the base. All that was intact was the front panel bonded to the base panel. The night before they had to setup for the show! How on earth did this tank fall apart? It's like they 'glued' the seams on vaseline - there was zero bond as the sheets were 100% intact. They had to scramble to get a glass tank on the spot.
I've had to pull apart newly glued seams and it ain't pretty. I've tried to break apart cured seams, and that doesn't work either. For it to essentially slide off tells me that the bonding agent wasn't mixed properly, and odds are the tank was built under very humid conditions (clouding occurs), and one picture on the first page or two looked like the jig actually glued to the acrylic accidentally, and was never buffed out.
Glad you got your money back.
Horrible seamwork, and I've been working with acrylic for 15 years. That tank had issues before it left the building.
Look, we can all pile on a company. Here's a true story for years ago at MACNA. I was helping a vendor unpack their boxes to set up their booth, and when I opened up a packed acrylic display tank, three of the four walls were completely off the base. All that was intact was the front panel bonded to the base panel. The night before they had to setup for the show! How on earth did this tank fall apart? It's like they 'glued' the seams on vaseline - there was zero bond as the sheets were 100% intact. They had to scramble to get a glass tank on the spot.
I've had to pull apart newly glued seams and it ain't pretty. I've tried to break apart cured seams, and that doesn't work either. For it to essentially slide off tells me that the bonding agent wasn't mixed properly, and odds are the tank was built under very humid conditions (clouding occurs), and one picture on the first page or two looked like the jig actually glued to the acrylic accidentally, and was never buffed out.
Glad you got your money back.
I know if I wasn't picking up my tank I would cancel it right now I'm happy to know now what the look for and what's good and what's bad it's crazy it took so long to get the money back they should have stood by their tank way better than that you wait 8 9 weeks to get it they should have shipped you out another tank ASAP and dealt with the other one with the shipping company I really hope I don't run into any problems with this company it's starting to scare me now how low the price actually was compared to all the other places I was looking at
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Not trying to be off topic, but y'all know way more than I do about tanks. I just bought a 29 gallon, and the quality looks bad. I have hardwood floors. What kind of tank and what brand are well made? Quality apparently is not what is used to be. I have a 9 year old wanting to help with this tank as well.
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