Stand and Hood 95% Done!!
 

Well I finally got arround to finishing off the stand and mounting my light box in a hood. I still have a base board to install, main doors under tank need more work and latches on the closet doors. Then I will use a clear varathane to seal it all up. Guess what I did all weekend.

Oh, yeah it's all solid maple, I'm sending my wife the bill!!

http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a92965/fish/Stand.jpg

Some Construction pics:
In action
Construction Zone
Light box mounted in hood
Outlet of light box
Outlet of hood


Lee

Lee, how did you do your overflows? can you describe them with a couple good pics please?

Steve

Looks awesome Lee!!

looks sweet!

Sorry Steve this is the best picture I can find on my laptop, (I'm working in Port Angeles this week)

http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a9296...box_outlet.jpg

These are 2" to 1.5" reducers. I held the 1.5" part with chanel locks, and cut 2 cuts on my chop saw side by side. Then rotated and did it again. This way I got 1/4" slots, and about 2.5" long. Inside the reducers there are vanes that direct the water flow just right. They are not that quiet, unless you have enough water, then they are not bad. But they are great for surface skimming and handle full 1/5" flows.

These were the original screens on 90 elbows, the 2 1.5" units would only take about 500-600 GPH before they would over flow the tank. Now I run about 1000 GPH with lots of room to spare (Using MAK4, will try MAG18 soon) But they were dead silent, even when I cut out every second screen. They did not provide good surface skimming.

http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a9296...Over_Flows.jpg
http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a9296..._Flows_Top.jpg

Lee

Looks great,

Can you come to my house and build one ??


Wendell

Wendell,

Well maybe after the meeting I could take a look at the job and give you a quote. I guess I could not charge my normal rate of $190/hr :lol:

Lee

Wow Lee, the tank looks awesome. The stand is a great design. I kinda wish I had put a bit more planning into mine.

Christy :)

So that's how you can afford such a large money pit. Setup looks awesome Lee.

Mmmmmmaaaaple. Schweeeeeeeet!!!!

Nice job Lee! :)