Sisterlimonpot
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If you wanted to use a steel beam to save on the size of wooden beam, could you not bolt it to the wooden stand? and otherwise construct it out of wood?
Excellent question.... Anyone care to take it:lol:??
If you wanted to use a steel beam to save on the size of wooden beam, could you not bolt it to the wooden stand? and otherwise construct it out of wood?
also keep in mind, because the pine is not isotropic. i dont know how much of the result can be trusted.
Excellent question.... Anyone care to take it:lol:??
I'm well along with a build for my 300g in-wall tank. I'm about to start building the stand (out of wood) and need some engineering guidance.
My tank is 96" long 30" deep and 24" tall. the front of the tank will be sitting on 2x6 rails with 2x4 uprights every 16".
Plenty of support up front, here's where I need the help of the engineers, for the back of the tank I want to have it completely open, which means the top rails are going to have to be pretty beefy. What do I need to carry the weight of the 300g and have very little (or within acceptable limits) deflection on that top beam?
Thanks for reading.
I'm well along with a build for my 300g in-wall tank. I'm about to start building the stand (out of wood) and need some engineering guidance.
My tank is 96" long 30" deep and 24" tall. the front of the tank will be sitting on 2x6 rails with 2x4 uprights every 16".
Plenty of support up front, here's where I need the help of the engineers, for the back of the tank I want to have it completely open, which means the top rails are going to have to be pretty beefy. What do I need to carry the weight of the 300g and have very little (or within acceptable limits) deflection on that top beam?
Thanks for reading.
Update,
I went to the local lumber yard and spoke to an engineer of the company that is making my laminate beam. I gave him the numbers (bumped the weight up to 2000 lbs for safe measure).
Long story short, with a .07 deflection at 2000 lbs eight foot long, I needed a 5 1/8"x9" laminate.
Ray, based on what I ordered, I would have had to glue two 2x8's and used another 2x8 rabbited on top and bottom (all screwed and clued) to achieve similar strength.
I know that this is probably going to the extreme. Having the piece of mind that the beam I ordered has been tested and will guarantee what I want.
The last thing I want is to build this stand with, this has what worked for me..., I think this will work..., what I would do..., I feel that this will work... and so on just to have to later add a center upright brace. I wanted factual numbers in which is far beyond my scope of expertise. I'm just glad that I approached this the way I did because I can sleep easy at night.
Nice. I think this was definitely the way to go! What numbers did he give you? Just curious
Nice house, Nice build! well done!