Stand is finaly done

[Canadian]

A standpipe inside the overflow box negates any possibility that more than say 5 gallons of water would ever drain out of the main tank (save for both the overflow box and the stand pipe or bulkhead breaking, but I don't see that happening, ever).

There are only two companies that you'll see in Victoria who put holes in the sides of overflow boxes: Seastar and AGA (when you see their corner tanks and their rounded overflows). However, AGA's holes are at the bottom of the overflow but they DON'T feed straight into the overflow box; they actually run the water up an internal wall where it spills over the top. Seastar puts holes in the sides of their overflow boxes but they also put standpipes in all of their overflow boxes (which basically renders the holes in the side useless).

As far as seeing the sides of the overflow box is concerned: there really is no need to see the inside of the overflow box. All you would have had to do is make that side cabinet door (or a piece of trim) cover say 5" of tank length (or however far the overflow box was going to stick out) and you'd never even see the overflow box. And the tank would look like that side of it had a black background. You also could have made it like a back-center overflow box (3 sides) so that the sides of the overflow box didn't actually extend all the way to the side walls of the tank.
Furthermore, as it is now, with a smaller overflow box used as you intend, you're going to need to put a 90 degree elbow in those bulkheads and then place a length of PVC in them (effectively making a stand pipe) unless you enjoy the sound of a sucking and slurping waterfall in your living room.

With that said, this thread is about your stand and your stand looks great. Good work.

[DJ88]

I'll stop asking questions. Sorry Steve. Just curious.

I do think it looks awesome. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] The stand is almost the same as how I had designed to build my 120.

[StirCrazy]

hehe, I don't mind the questions.. I guess I just didn't want overflows hehe [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I was also toying with the idea of just using the holes for a closed loop and having a hang on skimmerso I guess I picked this way for the versatility of uses for the holes and I didn't want holes in the bottom of the tank as I figured there would have been enuf stress on the bottom from the sand and rock that I didn't need to add any stress points by drilling the bottom. (weather this is a justifyed thought... who knows but it made sence to me at the time. as I don't know if they aneal glass after it is drilled to releive the stress points drilling causes or not)

but at the end of the dayI got the end drilled and I was planning on using a spray bar in reverse as a surface skimmer and I still am planning on it, so no boxes in the near future that I can forsee.

Canadian, Thanks, I think it looks better on the computer than in person..
Bruce he has seen it in person now so he can be more objective than I, as I see every little part that is not how it was suposed to be hehe..

Steve

[christyf5]

Wow that is one spectacular looking stand. Nice work!

Christy [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[StirCrazy]

Thanks Christy

BCReefer
I drilled holes in the metal frame and then used screws from inside the frame into the wood.

Steve

[titus]

Hello,

What type of wood did you use to build this? Was it expensive?

[StirCrazy]

um I spent maby 200.00 all togeather to build it.
the metal I got for free ( probably about 150.00 worth of metal). the doors I got for 5.00 each from a kitchen cabnet place (they were left overs) and the wood I used in the frame was 3.5" x 3/4" x 12' pine from home depot 3.99 ea
and 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood. 3 pints of paint (1 spar poly, 1 water based poly, and 1 blue marine epoxy) this could have been realy expensive could I have not found "spare doors" as to buy doors alone of this type would have been 60.00 each and not the 5.00 each I paied for them. If you were to do this and use oak for the wood frame and buy oak raised pannel doors I could see the cost being around 1000.00


the stand its self is done but I have started plumming now and I want to build a power distrubition box in the stand for everything to plug into.

Steve

[BCReefer]

Steve,

How did you mount the metal frame and the wood frame together.?

Great stand. Now I know what to do for my future tank.

Thanks
Patrick

[Aquattro]

Steve, how does the water get out of the tank? What is that contraption in the tank? Are you adding holes to it?

[StirCrazy]

Ok I decided to actualy do something today so I built my overflow pipes.






Steve