Paint Acrylic

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[Zulreef]

I  have a new acrylic tank can I paint the back blue instead of the paper back drop? Can I spray paint the back of my tank? Thanks

Zul

[angelscrx]

I don't see why not?  I have seen people paint the back of their tank for awhile but they primary use brush paint or roller.  I am going to paint the back of my tank black.  With the acrylic you may want to use a fine sand paper on it first to promote good adhesion for the paint.  Maybe wetsand?

[Rico]

I would get a couple of scraps from the acrylic the tank was made of and then try several different methods of painting it.  Most likely spray paint will give the best looking results however you have many different types of paint such as enamel, laquer, epoxy, plasticoat etc.  Do a little research, maybe go to the Krylon website, or cal  ome of the local paint stores.  They often make their own paint and put it into a spray can for you.

The big thing to remember is that the surface MUST BE CLEAN, otherwise you will get little bubbles or fisheyes as they are called and the paint will not stick evenly.

Rick

[BSHANE651]

zul, you inspired me to do some testing
i had a scrap of acrylic, (super thin) and sprayed it with regular black high gloss paint, the finish did come out pretty good, but it is still a little tacky and i think it would ruboff, i tried the same paint on the back of a 20 gal glass tank, it came out very nice, i think i will definatly spray the 55 gallon black, hopefully this will hide the overflow, heater, ect.

i do know one of the cheapest paint i have seen for plastic is called   "fusion ", it is made by krylon, and is specifically made to bond to plastic surfaces.

thanks for idea zul, and hope this helps