Joe's Starfire 210 - Page 3

plutoniumJoe · #21 10-28-2009, 02:44 AM

Shelps and Kein, Thanks for the advice! I think I just needed the nudge not to be so cheap. The extra $25 for the new pane will be well worth the piece of mind. I ordered the glass today, if I get the time I will cut out the old pane tomorrow.

kien · #22 10-28-2009, 02:56 AM

Sweet! Now we can all sleep at night knowing we won't wake up to another, "OMG my tank exploded! I'm getting out!" thread :-D. Seriously though, that is a very small price to pay for that peace of mind.

plutoniumJoe · #23 10-28-2009, 02:59 AM

Most of the pictures and work posted was done over the summer. Now things will start to happen in real time. The tank build thread I hope will motivate me to do things in a timely manner.

I probably would have built the stand of wood but my brother-in-law is a welder and had some 2X2 steel. I figured the strength of the steel and the smaller space it takes up might be a bonus.

We welded up the steel.

This is my brother-in-law not using a mask, he is from Naples, where they measure a man's testicular fortitude by their reckless behaviour. He tacked and I welded(I wore a mask!). He is adding corner braces, he insisted that it would help if people tried to shift the aquarium once it was loaded. I told him it wasn't going to happen, he wanted to do it anyway. He repairs cranes! Who am I to argue with an overbuilder.

He grinded the welds.

And I spent most of the weekend grinding and using a wire brush taking the stand down to bare metal. I put two coats of primer on and I should be able to hit it with paint tomorrow or this weekend.

Thanks for checking it out.

Joe.

plutoniumJoe · #24 11-03-2009, 02:38 AM

Finished painting the stand when I realized that one of the Corner Braces would be in the way of the overflow drain. I cut it out and hit it with some paint.

I was going to leave it like that as I was out of white paint then I thought what would one of those people with the really great set ups do. So I went out and got more paint. Need to get the garage up to a suitable temperature and hit it again to cover up the yellow.