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Old 07-27-2006, 02:05 AM
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My apartment is the same way, in some places I have a noticeable change in slope over the length of the tanks as well. That's really bad news. Definitely shim the stand so it sits level.
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Old 07-27-2006, 02:59 AM
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Hi Genix,

The best fix is to shim the desk, at floor level. This gives the tank the full flat surface of the desk so there won't be stress points on the glass. As others have suggested, wooden shims from the hardware store will do the job. I have also shimmed tanks by cutting decreasingly shorter strips of corrugated cardboard and stacking them one on top of the other to act as shims. You have to allow for some compression but not really that much, actually.
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Old 07-27-2006, 03:20 AM
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Shim the desk at floor level and put 1/2 " foam under the tank
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