Wretch's 54g Aqueon RR Corner Build

[Wretch]

Originally Posted by Stones

Great start! Do you have any pics of building the aluminium light hanger or a better profile picture of it?

I don't have any close ups of it but I will take some for you. If you do a search for thedoogan reef you will find were I got the idea from. Its just a piece of 6061T6 aluminum flat bar 0.375 x 2", with 2 smaller piece of the same aluminum flat bar but 0.250 x .75".I drilled holes into the two smaller pieces to match my light then drilled them to attach to the large bar.

[Wretch]

Here are the pictures of the light hanger. As I say its not finished yet I just wanted it attached and what not so I could get water in the tank. Still have to shorten the bolts and clean it up a little.





Hope this helps.

[Stones]

Thanks wretch. I was curious if the aluminium bar had been bent at 90 degrees or if you had 2 pieces jointed together to make a 90 degree elbow.

That hanger looks really slick. If you have the equipment, you could always take a cutoff wheel to the tops of the bolts holding the fixture to your aluminium hanger and cut them off just above the fastening nuts. A hacksaw would work equally well but would just take a bit more elbow grease to get the job done.

[hillegom]

Cutting with a cut off wheel would only take a min total for them all.
If you bring it over, I could do it in nothing flat.
Pm me

[Wretch]

Originally Posted by hillegom

Cutting with a cut off wheel would only take a min total for them all.
If you bring it over, I could do it in nothing flat.
Pm me

Thanks for the offer I want to change the nuts out then I will cut the excess bolt off. I just haven't got there yet.

[Wretch]

Well the leak test was going well until I noticed the tiniest of leaks just above my gate valve. When I tried to tighten it up I twisted the bulkhead and made things much worse.

Sump filled great. Holds all the back flow of water from the display tank plus the overflow is drained as well.



Display tank with empty overflow due to leaking bulkhead.



Damn bulkhead leak. I can't access it at the moment without draining the tank. I don't know if I should drain the tank or try and cut a bigger hole on the bottom of the stand so I can access the nut without draining.



PITA either way I guess.

[newsaltfan]

Cutting the bolts off and using acorn nuts will finish them off nicely.