That'd be it, I'm trying to figure out how to fab a MacQuarium insert made from blanks vacuum formed over the face and most of the tube of the CRT. That's why I'm experimenting with the 1/8" acrylic, I've go a lot of it on hand and a ready source for more scrap of approximately the right size.
Ideally, I'd like to do a deep draw down over the portion of the tube forward of the coils. I'll use a glass cutter and knock the neck off to clamp inside the coil assembly so that will look stock. Then I'll knock the part covered by the coil assembly off and reconstruct it with epoxy putty with a flat ended cone to which the coil assembly will be glued.
I'll also be adding a "goiter" up near the front, A/B side of the tube that will be the highest point and as flat as possible so I can use a hole saw to cut a port in the top. This will sized large enough to fit all the junk I want to have inside the MacQuarium through it and then plug up with a standard stopper or waterproof lid of some kind. Pumped air in, and return air out, lines will be set into the stopper/lid, with the air pump located remotely and above the water level to avoid siphoning off the water in a failure of any kind. This will keep the pump noise away from my workstation, the bubbling noise is relaxing, the pump noise is not. Being located at the top, front, A/B side of the fake CRT will keep the "goiter/access port" out of sight from behind the clear case portions of the ATOMicZipMacPLUS/MacQuarium™
I've got 1/16" acrylic to make a few "LCD Bubbles" for the 9" CRT. When I do the up-scaled vacuum forming unit, I'll be making an LCD Bubble for one of my 12"RGB'zaToppers. If all my stalled trades go through, there will be a maxed out 1400c/G3 in the RGB's shell with the 1400's LCD peeking out from behind the bubble. The 12"RGB's guts will then be available to be housed in a ClearProtoHoaxMac AIO of, as yet, undetermined type, or into storage as backup for the working unit. [
] ]'>I'm going to see if I can do another trial run tonight . . .
With any luck at all, I can glass-cut and knock the tube from the frame & face of the 9"CRT when I'm done with the MacQuarium, we'll see . . .
