turtall
10-07-2005, 2:26 PM
Last Saturday my wife and I went to Whities Pets 'Sale of the Century' celebrating 60 years of a family owned pet store and bought a 150g tank. The price was fine, but we did'nt like the stand or canopy (natch).
Sunday morn I called my buddy Allan (he's in the white shirt) to pick his brain about a heavy stand structure and he came over and we started. All the material came from construction sites around here and I had plenty of it. We used 2x6's for the footprint, 2x4's for the top and sides, full dimension redwood 4x4's for the posts and tongue and groove planking for the siding. A 6' long powerstrip a customer gave me is installed inside. Access, as you can see, is by 2 removable panels on the front. One coat of Ipswich Pine stain and 2 coats of semi- gloss poly was all it needed. I could park my truck on this baby! While it sat on the sawhorses we affectionately nicknamed it 'The Coffin" ( it almost became one after we moved the tank onto it on Wednesday).
Sunday morn I called my buddy Allan (he's in the white shirt) to pick his brain about a heavy stand structure and he came over and we started. All the material came from construction sites around here and I had plenty of it. We used 2x6's for the footprint, 2x4's for the top and sides, full dimension redwood 4x4's for the posts and tongue and groove planking for the siding. A 6' long powerstrip a customer gave me is installed inside. Access, as you can see, is by 2 removable panels on the front. One coat of Ipswich Pine stain and 2 coats of semi- gloss poly was all it needed. I could park my truck on this baby! While it sat on the sawhorses we affectionately nicknamed it 'The Coffin" ( it almost became one after we moved the tank onto it on Wednesday).