Mammoth's 325 A.G.E. Build
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Black Mammoth
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Hmmmm, your dad does seem a little happy. Id only be worried if, before asking, he started to strip down to his undies, LOL. Thats gotta kill, regarding that 1.5" error. Its kind of like that one small ding on your front right fender that NO ONE notices.... EXCEPT YOU lol. The tank looks great, though.
Black Mammoth
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No problem. It's that white stuff I put up on the wall. FRP stands for Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic. It's a thin plastic sheet that comes in 4' x 8' sheets. You can pick it up at Home Depot. Apparently, it comes in other colors. I don't know if Home Depot can get them in other colors or not. Anyway, you take an adhesive to glue it to the walls and ceiling. I put it up to help contain the moisture. My goal was/is to try and keep the moisture in that room.
Black Mammoth
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I'm not sure if you have to, but I did. I'm still caulking the joints. I didn't have time to finish before the tank came in. I just caulked around the tank area. The joints slip in to the FRP so part of the joint is behind it and the front of the joint covers the seam. The ones that join the panels (not the corner pieces) are probably water tight. The inside and outside corner pieces probably aren't because only one side slips on the FRP. The other side butts up against the other piece of FRP. It's a tight fit, but I wanted to be extra careful by caulking it.
When this is finished, the room I think will be pretty darn close to water proof. Actually, one of my friends asked why I just didn't add supports to the walls and fill it up with water instead of having to move this big tank down the stairs
Good question....reminds me of a "tank" on Monster Fish Keepers.
Black Mammoth
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14829284#post14829284 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SVTour
So how does one go about recruiting the fire department to move a tank? I could see asking mine...they'd probably tell me to get lost (and I was a volunteer at one point
Nice set up so far...
Thanks. Well what happened was that I was going to get movers to move the tank in to the basement. They backed out of their original quote and then asked for double! So those guys took a hike. For the price they wanted to do it for and the replacement cost, it just didn't make sense. I said, I'll do it myself. I'll figure a way out on how to do this and get some friends to come over.
Well, I know two firemen and one works in our town as a volunteer. I approached them and asked them what they thought of my idea. I wanted to ask them what they thought since they need to do stuff like this fire Fire & Rescue. I figured that my idea would work (as you can see it did), but I wanted a professional's opinion. Anyway, the local guy said well I can probably get a crew together from the fire department and we can do it. It would be good training and help do team building. So that's how it came about. He said that they do stuff like this quite often. He was telling me how they removed a big & heavy entertainment center from someone's basement.
Anyway, after they were done, I gave them a donation for more than it was going to cost me to get professionals (first quote). If you get them to help, I think you should definitely make a large donation. And it is most likely 100% tax deductible like my donation was
So how do you approach them? I'm not quite sure since my situation was a bit different. I might possibly go in to the fire station and introduce myself. Tell them what I was trying to do and ask them if this would be something they could help you out on. If they can't, that's fine. But at least they know you are trying to do something crazy and might be on the look out for any emergency calls to your place :lolspin:
Robb in Austin
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Been following and I gotta say: SWEET!
Sorry about yelling.
Sorry about yelling.
paulthomas
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14829447#post14829447 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Black Mammoth
Thanks. Well what happened was that I was going to get movers to move the tank in to the basement. They backed out of their original quote and then asked for double! So those guys took a hike. For the price they wanted to do it for and the replacement cost, it just didn't make sense. I said, I'll do it myself. I'll figure a way out on how to do this and get some friends to come over.
Well, I know two firemen and one works in our town as a volunteer. I approached them and asked them what they thought of my idea. I wanted to ask them what they thought since they need to do stuff like this fire Fire & Rescue. I figured that my idea would work (as you can see it did), but I wanted a professional's opinion. Anyway, the local guy said well I can probably get a crew together from the fire department and we can do it. It would be good training and help do team building. So that's how it came about. He said that they do stuff like this quite often. He was telling me how they removed a big & heavy entertainment center from someone's basement.
Anyway, after they were done, I gave them a donation for more than it was going to cost me to get professionals (first quote). If you get them to help, I think you should definitely make a large donation. And it is most likely 100% tax deductible like my donation was
Hrm. One could fill a bunch of RM containers in the house with water, douse the tank with gasoline, light it and yell "quick! let's get the tank into the house where the water is!"
Ok, stupid idea.
I hope you bought them lunch too.
Black Mammoth
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I haven't had time to post much of anything for updates. I've been pretty busy...including a week long vacation at the Outer Banks :bum:
Here are the Cliff Notes to tide you over until my next real update
Items completed:
Items working on\to-do:
Here are the Cliff Notes to tide you over until my next real update
Items completed:
- Built a stand for the sump
- Drilled a hole in the sump for a bigger bulkhead for the Dart return
- Plumbed the sump and display tank together
- Added all of the sand
- Filled the tank with water
- Rockscaped the display tank
- Hide most of the Tunzes in the tank
Items working on\to-do:
- Finish building the light rack (just started)
- Build a stand for the skimmer
- Build a filter sock holder for the drains
- Build a stand for the water changing cans
- Redo the auto top off system
- Finish the exterior around the tank
Yo dude!
Yo dude!
Discovering all kinds of great build threads on RC!
Tagging along with your thread, as we am in the early stages of our own AGE upgrade.
I'm going to school on you...
Thanks!
LL
Yo dude!
Discovering all kinds of great build threads on RC!
Tagging along with your thread, as we am in the early stages of our own AGE upgrade.
I'm going to school on you...
Thanks!
LL
Black Mammoth
Premium Member
Re: Yo dude!
Re: Yo dude!
Glad to see you over here. I've actually been following your thread silently. It looks like you are making good progress. You might finish before me!
Re: Yo dude!
Glad to see you over here. I've actually been following your thread silently. It looks like you are making good progress. You might finish before me!
Re: Re: Yo dude!
Re: Re: Yo dude!
Gosh, thanks. But don't be silent. Chime in anytime. I love to hear from other folks in the same boat, so to speak...
LL
Re: Re: Yo dude!
Gosh, thanks. But don't be silent. Chime in anytime. I love to hear from other folks in the same boat, so to speak...
LL
melev
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Great thread so far. Thanks for the link, George. :thumbsup:
I didn't see it in the thread, but may have missed it. How did you get the stand height resolved? I remember you said it was 4" too short, but it looks like it arrived at the perfect height.
Darn window. I totally know how you felt when you saw that with the stand in place.
Something new to add to your list of things To Do:
Take more pictures and post them.
I didn't see it in the thread, but may have missed it. How did you get the stand height resolved? I remember you said it was 4" too short, but it looks like it arrived at the perfect height.
Darn window. I totally know how you felt when you saw that with the stand in place.
Something new to add to your list of things To Do:
Take more pictures and post them.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15134232#post15134232 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Great thread so far. Thanks for the link, George. :thumbsup:
I didn't see it in the thread, but may have missed it. How did you get the stand height resolved? I remember you said it was 4" too short, but it looks like it arrived at the perfect height.
Darn window. I totally know how you felt when you saw that with the stand in place.
Something new to add to your list of things To Do:
Take more pictures and post them.
You're welcome, Marc.
Mammoth has a good thread going here... a lot of parallel experiences.
Deja Vu all over again...
LL
LL
Black Mammoth
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15134232#post15134232 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Great thread so far. Thanks for the link, George. :thumbsup:
I didn't see it in the thread, but may have missed it. How did you get the stand height resolved? I remember you said it was 4" too short, but it looks like it arrived at the perfect height.
Darn window. I totally know how you felt when you saw that with the stand in place.
Something new to add to your list of things To Do:
Take more pictures and post them.
LOL! You are right. Bad thing is that I'll be gone again this weekend
Anyway, I resolved the stand height by using cement pavers to raise the height. When I get around to taking pictures, I'm sure you'll see them. It kind of gets me angry thinking about it again....but such is life. It works...and besides, because of the bracing, I really can't put much of anything underneath the tank.
Yeah, I'll fix the window thing. I'm only losing 1.5" of vertical viewing height, so it isn't that bad...just something to fix...lol
Well I think it's about time to leave work to get working on that light rack. BTW, I'm using 3/4" PVC for that. I was thinking about going to 1" but it looks like the 3/4" isn't going to bow...at least I hope. I'm thinking about modifying the design a little bit because I'm going to mount the ballast above the bulbs. The ballast weight might make me go to 1" PVC. We'll see, but I did a small prototype earlier and it seemed to work. I think the biggest advantage I have is that I'm not hanging them. They'll hang for moving them out of the way when working on the tank. But the rack is going to rest on the euro brace.
