Steel stand Skinning

[Azzkr]

I have bought a steel stand for my tank from Concepts and I am looking for ideas on way people have attached skins to there stand. My stand is powder coated and I don't want to drill into the stand. Other than using magnets to attach a skin to it. What ways did you use? Or is it even okay to drill into the steel stand? This tank is going to be in place for a very long time.

[subnet88]

Tagging along. I would love to get ideas also.

[WarDog]

I had tabs with 3/16 th's holes welded to the stand before the powder coat. Allows panels to be screwed from the inside out. Check my thread for the pics. Kinda late for you unless you want to re-coat.

[Azzkr]

Yeah I wish I would have thought about that when I had the tank built. I had seen that after on a friends tank. I think concepts should start putting it on there stands when they build them.

[denny_C]

Originally Posted by Azzkr

Yeah I wish I would have thought about that when I had the tank built. I had seen that after on a friends tank. I think concepts should start putting it on there stands when they build them.

we prefer to use magnets if the wood panels are exposed or finished , although everybody mounts their panels differently. if a customer request to have brackets added to a stand im sure we could do that easily enough , but to keep costs to the customer low its not a standard only a special request at the moment


cheers


denny

[Jakegr]

Get some counter sunk magnets from Lee Valley.

[Tn23]

Magnets on the wood panels? That's what I'm planning to do with mine.

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[FishingGoalie]

Definitely magnets you can get some pretty strong magnets. If you still don't know call concept and talk to matt or denny they have both built stands i believe. Im not sure how they built them though.

[Ron99]

Magnets is my plan. I'm wanting to skin mine in carbon fibre

[Mike-fish]

how i've done stands in the past is i attach a small block of wood ( on both sides of the supports) that screwed through to the back side of the skin this then either has a bolt and tnut fed through from the space between the skin and block. the length of bolt depends on how heavy of tubing the stand is built with and the thickness of a tie block that bridges across the support, the tie block is then tightened against the stand with nuts on either bolt. i would post a pic of it but my tank is 7 hours away. ive also used that metal strap all in a similar manner i just used screws instead of blots and tnuts.