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Thanks Kevin.
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Show off!Well, so I don't leave this thread hanging, I thought I'd give an update. Put some finishing touches to the cart/stand. To maintain the "already had it" theme, I ended up skinning it with pallet wood. I even left it un-finished to maintain the rustic look.
I drilled the QT display for the overflow and return. I have a DC pump I'll be using for the return. Baffled the sump and will be using a Curve 5 that I picked up. Just need to plumb the thing and throw some water at it.
Anyway, here's the final product sans plumbing. I'll update once I get it wet. The last picture is the new mobile QT setting next to the main display.
so neat pal, i love the plywood and how sleek ur system look
I have had that happen. Last time with water in the tank. No fun but wife did get new floors through out the house thou.
Ouch.... ¡No está bien!
I think I saw (puddy-cat) that petco had the $1 a-gallon sale going on... might only be local to me but maybe worth checking?
I'm not a carpenter by any means so how did u connect the boards that criss cross the front of the doors?
Way to think outside of the box! Wish i thought of that!Thank you very much.
Ouch...I'm glad mine was dry. But nice positive spin on it getting the new floors!!
Thanks...The sale is here also and I will be going by today to grab another one.
To start, the door frames are biscuit joined and glued for structure. If you'll look at the inside of the doors, I used a piece of 1/4" plywood as a backing. I simply cut the patterned pieces to fit inside the frame and glued them in place to the backing. Normally I would have biscuit joined those as well, but I got lazy. Remember, this is just pallet wood and I didn't take the time to plane anything so it was a bit rough. After all, this is supposed to be a mobile, temporary QT system. No need to get crazy!!!!
Why hide that beautiful wood work. That should be out all the time.
What are your thoughts on plumbing the sump? Do you intend to keep the ability to pull out? If so I would just install some unions to make the piping removable or possibly go with flex tubing....
Love it! Great job and great tank!