Haha. I live in Amish countryEdit: but if I lived in Pennsylvania I think my Wife would insist we drive to the Hershey area and see what the amish folks have Good luck
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Haha. I live in Amish countryEdit: but if I lived in Pennsylvania I think my Wife would insist we drive to the Hershey area and see what the amish folks have Good luck
If I built a stand for a cube, I would do a oversized cabinet too, but with a 10-12" side counter and offset the tank. I see a lot of cubes here with packed cabinets and it drives me nuts. I would use some type of solid surface top, ether granit or smoked glass. The carcass would be 3/4" plywood in oak, maple or cherry and I would use biscuits and pocket hole joinery and 1" by-pine or scrap-3/4" to reinforce where needed and probably order nice doors from lowes
Nice!Check out my old cube 24" x 24" tank, sitting on a 36" square stand. 3x3" solid poplar corners, 3/4" poplar ply, dado joinery, glued and clamped, in matte black. I had a daughter finish the 'shelf' around that system with a mosaic tile design. Stand could have doubled as a stool for an elephant.
My tank sits in a corner. I’m thinking about putting it somewhere else but that’s where it has been. I’m a stickler for symmetry so an offset counter wouldn’t work but a full border like that is what I’d like. Gives me a place to set something down.
Absolutely right! I’m updating my drawing. I think I found a new issue though regarding my light mount... to be continued!Nothing asymmetrical about a corner stand with a ledge on two sides...
I had a thread on RC at one time entitled 'A place to rest my beverage' I got rid of that cube some time back, but my new peninsula has an even wider shelf arout the perimeter.
Could be an option... I really like my light mount though.This is the first system I've ever suspended the lights from the ceiling on... and I really, really like it. Totally out of the way.
Yes @Greybeard I have read your build and I envy your useable counter/bar space. The reason I would offset is to allow my wife to place some FISH (her definition of Reef) related decorea and soften the presence of the glass box in the room and......for me to use when needed
Could be an option... I really like my light mount though.
I like it, has air flow for the sump!!Here is the concept drawing with the door design. I like it! Hope the wife does too. What is nice about this in addition to the design is that it gives space for air to flow through the sump area and relieve some of the humidity.
Now here's the problem.... My light mount is designed to sit flush to the back of the tank and center my light over the tank. Best base is I can get it to be a few inches back from the center. That's gonna drive my OCD nuts!
View from the top. The light gray is the shelf, light blue is the tank, dark blue is the light, black is the light mount. The dark blue line in the white opening is the frame of the stand. The stuff in gray and red is my drain and overflow.
New 80/20 diy light bracket in the works
You must be an Architectural EngineerHere is the concept drawing with the door design. I like it! Hope the wife does too. What is nice about this in addition to the design is that it gives space for air to flow through the sump area and relieve some of the humidity.
Now here's the problem.... My light mount is designed to sit flush to the back of the tank and center my light over the tank. Best base is I can get it to be a few inches back from the center. That's gonna drive my OCD nuts!
View from the top. The light gray is the shelf, light blue is the tank, dark blue is the light, black is the light mount. The dark blue line in the white opening is the frame of the stand. The stuff in gray and red is my drain and overflow.
Wider? I have it on the inside now and it will be off by about 3”. I guess that’s not terrible.Widen the base a bit more, and put the attachment point on the inside of the frame
On my old cube, I had an external return. Mounted a bulkhead in the 'shelf' for the return to pass through, though it wasn't under water. Wonder if you could do the same... drill for a bulkhead, and ream out a bulkhead so that the mount pole would pass through it unobstructed, but tight enough to make it look right.
Haha. Nope. Electrical undergrad and mechanical grad.You must be an Architectural Engineer
That’s what my mount is. The flat 80/20. The guys that made it don’t produce them anymoreNew 80/20 diy light bracket in the works
edit : I have been wanting to try this with the flat alum (not 4-side) and have a slim mount