Gruby626
Well-known member
My friend gave me 2 glass pieces so I decided to make some small enclosures for my mantids.
Glass was 28x64 cm and was 6 mm thick.
Looked like this:
I decided to take it to the proffesional glass cutter, so it will be done ok.
Looked like this after cutting and cleaning:
The rest of the things I used while building:
there is no ventilation net on the photo, and i changed the little pocket knife for a sharper one
First I taped the glass with masking tape to prevent it against the silicone:
Didn't make pictures while gluing, because I forgot . 2 looked like this after gluing (3rd dried in a different place):
When they dried I glued the ventilation - before I cut it:
I cut the cork into 6 pieces - 3 into each enclosure - 1 for back and 1 for top:
Then I sticked in the cork on the back and cut the ventilation net:
To other 3 pieces of cork i stapled some gaze:
Then I sticked the cork with gaze to the top piece of glass with a double sided tape.
Then I cut of the rest of the silicone, took off the tape, and it's ready :
I made 3 of them - they are 13x13x15 cm (long/wide/high), ventilation is 2 x 13 cm.
Pricelist:
Cork- 25c
Silicon - 3$l
Masking tape - 1,25 $
Glass cutting - 5 $
Net , Double sided tape,, pencil, ruler, knife - I already got.
All of it cost me around 10 $.
PS The silicone on the fron was not very straight so i taped the edges with black tape .
I think it looks ok, since it was the first time I glued glass pieces together
Hope you like it.
Glass was 28x64 cm and was 6 mm thick.
Looked like this:
I decided to take it to the proffesional glass cutter, so it will be done ok.
Looked like this after cutting and cleaning:
The rest of the things I used while building:
there is no ventilation net on the photo, and i changed the little pocket knife for a sharper one
First I taped the glass with masking tape to prevent it against the silicone:
Didn't make pictures while gluing, because I forgot
. 2 looked like this after gluing (3rd dried in a different place):
When they dried I glued the ventilation - before I cut it:
I cut the cork into 6 pieces - 3 into each enclosure - 1 for back and 1 for top:
Then I sticked in the cork on the back and cut the ventilation net:
To other 3 pieces of cork i stapled some gaze:
Then I sticked the cork with gaze to the top piece of glass with a double sided tape.
Then I cut of the rest of the silicone, took off the tape, and it's ready
:
I made 3 of them - they are 13x13x15 cm (long/wide/high), ventilation is 2 x 13 cm.
Pricelist:
Cork- 25c
Silicon - 3$l
Masking tape - 1,25 $
Glass cutting - 5 $
Net , Double sided tape,, pencil, ruler, knife - I already got.
All of it cost me around 10 $.
PS The silicone on the fron was not very straight so i taped the edges with black tape
.I think it looks ok, since it was the first time I glued glass pieces together
Hope you like it.
