Now that I have all the silicone stripped from the tank I had to re-drill the hole that goes inside of the weir that the bulkhead fits into. There was 2 sheets of glass and I tried to pry them apart but eventually said F-it and drilled through them both since i Couldn't think of any disadvantages to this.
Safety First:
I covered the top of the hole where i was drilling with water so that while I was drilling the bit would be completely submerged.
After about 15-20 minutes I finally made it though and have a fancy hole 1.75 inches in width there. I'll be using 1.25" plumbing so this should be perfect. I'll post more updates of the plexiglass cutting and bulkhead installing later this week. After this weekend the construction of everything should be about 75-80% done.
So heres 3 pics of my tank that I bought to refurbish back into awesomeness.
See Exhibit one, this is some salt deposits that have somehow fused with the glass, to the point where razor blades nor CLR will take it out. So that left me with no other choice but to buff the class down.
Take a look at the left side of the tank, see all that white stuff? that's all salt stained glass that you can barely see though.
After about 1-2 hours of buffing the glass with a Rouge (pronounced rooge). I cleared away like a 3"x4" window in it, seen below:
Pretty good job, I think, but now I realized that I'll be making an overflow/sump in the tank, so you wont be able to see the glass there anyways. That means I get to focus all of my glass-buffing activities onto the scratches in the glass that are on a few sides.
I'm hoping that the rouge that I have is enough to take these out. I plan to test a patch of glass that I rough up with a sheet of 250 grade sand paper to see if the rouge will take that out. If so, maybe i'll have to get the scratches with the sandpaper first before buffing with rouge.
I've also already sanded the top, and plan to re-paint it with plastic paint that does not re-act with water, and re-silicone the tank with silicon? Then I'll be all done with the display tank. After that is done, it's on to sump building... sooooooo... stay tuned!?
Let me just start this post out by saying: What. The. Fuck.
Then move right along to the following:
As you know P-Obam is giving a speech this 8th to children all around the country with the talking points of staying in school, trying your best, working with parents and teachers to accomplish national education goals etc.
Apparently the RNC/GOP/Fox News has traveled into the future and seen this speech, and now warns that it contains all sorts of vile things like Liberal Propaganda, Socialist Views, and Is similar to what Hitler did with children before WWI. What the fuck are these people talking about?
Listen, I don't care if you're some fucking nutjob that thinks the president is really Kenyan, (for further reading google "birthers") or think that nothing you use is socialist (most things you take for granted like the US Department of ___________), and know that Medicare isn't a government health care program (I can assure you it is). You still have a right to fucking support education of the populace and our President. During Bush's presidency did you see the Democrats or even far left nut jobs saying he was trying to organize the kids to join his war effort during his yearly visit to schools? Hell no you didn't.. When Bush was president you seen a lot of outrageous things he was criticized for like leading people to war under false pretenses, violating peoples constitutional rights, and having one of the worst vice presidents in history. But you NEVER seen him berated by any party for giving a speech to school children. That's just fucking insane. There's a difference between criticizing a leader and being skeptical of policies and slandering our leader and believing whatever you hear as long as it goes against them.
For someone to say that our leader is, by telling students to stay in school and get an education, to make it in this world, and to think for themselves, tainted by Liberal Agenda is just asinine. Then what exactly is the fucking Conservative Agenda?!?!? Keeping people Ignorant, uneducated, and able to be told what to do because as long as they don't know anything more about a subject than what you say they'll believe and do anything you want?
Oh wait.....
What the fuck, America? Is it just that so many crazy ass people are out there or only the crazy ones are speaking up?
I'm not sure if this reaction and parents pulling their kids out of school is just a massive mob mentality or just a collective effort lead by people craving power using ignorance and fear to control people that are so very easily controlled.
I'm going to say that if you are in any way believing in this, that you are probably are suffering from some sort of mental deficiency. In which Case: you can't even connect the fucking dots to realize that you're BEING CONTROLLED by fear and propaganda.
I'd say I'd move to Europe but I love this country too much to leave it in the hands of people like that. Not on my watch, assholes.
Bibilography: 2:10 - "They're capturing your kids"
