everything looks great!! I do however have some serious concerns about the strength of your stand. Your water alone will weight over 2400lbs. Just my observation I am definatly not an engineer though.
My 300 Gallon Money Pit
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dodgefreak8;763291; said:
Serious concerns? I appreciate your concern but you don't even know what it's made out of. That thing is build like a tank and takes two people to move one of the half sections.
It held up perfectly in the previous owners house for about 6 months and the stand shows absolutely no signs of failure anywhere.
Here is a photo of another MFK member's 300 stand and it half less than half the support of mine and his appears to be working just fine.
Please let me know if you see something that I am missing as I don't want to fill this thing up if I am overlooking something. I truly am interested in your observations. Thanks.
what I can see it has no bracing. Just looks like Plywood and no 2x4's. If it were me I wouldn't out 300 gallons of water on it unless it has some structural bracing. Like I said though. I'm not an engineer. here is what just my frame looked like for my 220
I even added more 2x4's after this pic. I don't think Kitchen cabinets are not made to hold that kind of static load and those just look like kitchen cabinets to me. Maybe a better pic would explain more though. there might be somthing I am missing.
I even added more 2x4's after this pic. I don't think Kitchen cabinets are not made to hold that kind of static load and those just look like kitchen cabinets to me. Maybe a better pic would explain more though. there might be somthing I am missing.
Kitchen cabinets don't take two people to carry a 4' section. As stated before they were professionally made in place just for the tank.
You have 8 2x4's holding up your tank. One 2x4 = 5.25 square inches. x 8 = 42 square inches of support.
I have 90 square inches of support in the two B's alone. 30" x 1.5" thick.
A's are 1x6 solid oak with the center one just split for another 29.6 square inches.
C's and D are 7/8" (I think, I know it's more than 3/4) thick finish quality plywood for another 117 square inches of support.
Bracing that is what the flat pieces you see do. They stop everything from leaning along with the corner craftmanship.
Then the plank that sits on top of all of this is the 3/4" hardi board (I think it's called) that weighs a ton and you could make a ramp out of. That should distribute the weight pretty evenly over the 220+ square inches of support.
And I'll take a good piece of 1x oak over todays 2x's any day of the year for strength.
I'm no engineer either but my math seems to add up ok. Let me know if I am overlooking something. Thanks
You have 8 2x4's holding up your tank. One 2x4 = 5.25 square inches. x 8 = 42 square inches of support.
I have 90 square inches of support in the two B's alone. 30" x 1.5" thick.
A's are 1x6 solid oak with the center one just split for another 29.6 square inches.
C's and D are 7/8" (I think, I know it's more than 3/4) thick finish quality plywood for another 117 square inches of support.
Bracing that is what the flat pieces you see do. They stop everything from leaning along with the corner craftmanship.
Then the plank that sits on top of all of this is the 3/4" hardi board (I think it's called) that weighs a ton and you could make a ramp out of. That should distribute the weight pretty evenly over the 220+ square inches of support.
And I'll take a good piece of 1x oak over todays 2x's any day of the year for strength.
I'm no engineer either but my math seems to add up ok. Let me know if I am overlooking something. Thanks
