my 29 build

i keep looking at the front of the canopy & think it looks so plain, but can't decide what to put there....if anything.

the lower part of the stand will have (2) doors plain front w/ no knobs...just 2 simple pieces of 1/2" plywood.

dont care to do any fancy crown moulding, but that large flat area that is the flip-up front for some reason irks me......

btw...the whole thing is gonna be painted a semi-gloss black & the inside will be white kilz

thoughts?? suggestions??

 
the more i looked at it, the more the flat plain large 34.5 x 12 area that is the front of the canopy irked me in it's plainness.....

thought about trim, moulding, etc....something to break up the nothingness. i was at my LFS & they had a large 150 gallon square tank that had a beautiful canopy on it. just like mine, the front section of it flipped up for light & tank access & it had some small front doors also. after playing around with it for a few minutes, i finally broke down & decided to put 2 small doors on the front of mine....form & function LOL

that way, i can just open one of the doors to feed or do water tests instead of having to lift the whole front section up. i'm also thinking about making a small piece w/ the drilled holes for the test tubes like i did on standasaurus rex....only mounted on one of the doors instead of in the support bar like the last stand LOL

cut some pieces to make a cutout jig for the edging bit of the router to follow & hopefully will get that cutout tomorrow.....
 
canopy front door opening cut, doors for it cut, rest of the stand doors cut.

to add a bit of customizing to the doors, i bought a trimming bit & went all around the edges of all the doors too :)

last pic is the doors on the canopy i saw at my LFS & is kinda what mine should look like except none of the moulding around them


 
some new toys came today.....the bulk reef supply single canister carbon/gfo reactor & 1lb of each media. think i'm gonna have to modify the shelf for it to fit. figure best place to mount it for easy acces to do media changes is on one of the side doors, so i need to notch the shelf for it to fit

other toy is an american dj power switch....got a $25 gift card for my birthday to amazon.com so i decided to order it.....$29.99 & free shipping :D
 
Very cool stand design, I like it. Looks great-your pictures are kinda small-but from what I can tell everything looks great.

Good luck.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14538282#post14538282 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by buccard
Very cool stand design, I like it. Looks great-your pictures are kinda small-but from what I can tell everything looks great.

Good luck.
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i managed to get the dj power strip in where i wanted it in the side door opening area....but it took some doing cause w/ it's mounting tabs, it was just a bit too long, but chopping just a little bit out of the 2x4s for clearance & it went in but just barely LOL

 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14593302#post14593302 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sal-t-dawg
Very very interested to see that spray bar put together.....
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i have all the pvc parts for it....just need to get to that stage of the build LOL

next step is prep & paint but i seem to have lost motivation here lately :( i think that is mainly cause i cleaned the parking garage so i can get my car back in there & not wanting to pull the stand & canopy out to paint them....but i have somebody coming to get my old stand & i'm gonna toss all my old scraps & then i can paint in that area & still use my garage LOL
 
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well, i was thinking in my head how i was gonna power everything. i really wanted everything plugged into the dj strip to make it easy to manage, but the thing i kept coming back to is that if it was all plugged into it & it was plugged into a gfci, if the gfci tripped, the whole tank was powered off...which i didn't want.

so i decided to re-think it & ordered (2) of these. they are the same american dj power center, but have 4 plugs instead of 8. so 1/2 the important tank stuff will be on 1 of them & the other 1/2 on the other & each will be plugged into a seperate gfci

problem solved :D

so i'll probably have an unused american dj 8-plug strip available for sale soon :rollface:
 
got the 2 new 4-plug dj strips in yesterday. the location i had the original one, i couldn't get the 2 4-plugs to fit, so i moved them to the front door opening.

the reason they wouldn't fit is the dual ones are angled downward in relation to the face & the plugs are on the top rear edge. they were too wide to fit side-by-side in the door opening & if i tried to stack them, i'd have to leave 3-4" between them & also from the top edge so there would be room to plug & unplug the outlets. stacking them meant taking up almost 1/3 the door opening & i just didn't like the look of it....so in the front & side-by-side they went :)





1 last thing i have decided to do tomorrow is in the middle pic in the above section, from the center support beam forward about 2/3rd the distance to the backside of the dj strip & the width of the stand, i am gonna attach a piece of wood to give a lil cubby-hole to stuff wires up in.

another thing i have already done is redo the doors. decided to radius cut the part that i had done the edging & flip the door around. the radius would then be on the backside for a hidden fingertip door grap. the 1/2" material wasn't deep enough to get a good grab on the door, so i redid them all out of 3/4" material....that pretty much killed the remaining balance on my home depot gift card LOL

everything is nice & smooth since taking the orbital sander to all the pieces, so once i get the piece to hold the wires out of the way, it'll be time to paint this thing :D
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14444136#post14444136 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by james3370
no not really :mad2:

the big stink of it came from my apt complex....since i live on the 2nd floor, they have a rule that any tank(s) over 55 gallons total, you have to sign a damage waiver for any water damage or stress damage from the weight. my 50 + 29 sump made me fall into that category.

well my renter's insurance company refused to insure me if i signed such a waiver.....so there ya go :(
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I fight that baloney all the time. What is the point of renter's insurance? It is to cover that sort of thing. Never had um want me to sign a waiver, that is new to me. Anyhow you can darn near park a peterbilt on the second floor. A tank, perpendicular to the floor joists, ain't going through the floor. A 1 ton point load is. So is an A1 Abrams. (Point loaded or not.) Usually I end up with "well anything over x size...." and before they finish, I hand them the policy... and they shut up. So that little tank you have has a better chance of going through than a longer tank. Chuckles. By the way, nice looking stand James, even if you did overkill it with the 2 x 4s..

Jim
 
painting has commenced :D

looks like its suppose to be pretty warm next few days, so paint should dry quickly in the parking garage

i already have 2 coats of kilz on all the sides of the small pieces....just need to do 2 coats on the big pieces (stand, canopy & canopy support) & then on to the black paint. hopefully be finished by the weekend
 
Wow James.... I had the same Stand design in mind but without the canopy I even have a Sketch of it that I made....LOL.... but nice work I can't wait to see the final results...:thumbsup:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14670373#post14670373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tholton33
Lets see the paint!
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it's drying LOL

i had them tint my kilz w/ some black, so it came out this blueish color, so that was easier to cover.

the stand & canopy had so many freaking nooks & crannies, i thought i'd NEVER get it all covered LOL

all told, all the outside or easily viewable areas got 3-4 coats & the rest....just enough that the primer is covered :rollface:

hopefully pics tomorrow :bum:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14670464#post14670464 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by james3370
it's drying LOL

i had them tint my kilz w/ some black, so it came out this blueish color, so that was easier to cover.

the stand & canopy had so many freaking nooks & crannies, i thought i'd NEVER get it all covered LOL

all told, all the outside or easily viewable areas got 3-4 coats & the rest....just enough that the primer is covered :rollface:
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You should have painted it before you put it together (or kilzed it) :D I usually have kilz tinted to a neutral gray. Everything covers that.

Jim
 
i was shooting for the dark grey....not sure how adding black to a white kilz netted a bluebird egg blue (maybe it was the wood?), but that's what i got.

as far as the nooks & crannies, i took stuff like the shelf, dj strip mounting panel, wire cover & even the flip-up front of the canopy apart to make it easier to paint.

the nooks & crannies where areas that were too small for the roller or all the corners & edges where pieces that were impossible to take apart met. painting around all that stuff was mind-numbing LOL
 
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