Who does acrylic CNC: ISO Vertical frag rack

[chaostactics]

I bought, and like the concept of, the Reefing Art vertical frag rack. However, I find it sits too close to the surface for adequate light acclimation and it's pretty wide. Trying to see if anyone out there is making tall vetical frag racks?

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

In the same boat and would love to know

 

[chaostactics]

In the same boat and would love to know

I'm very tempted to cut is shorter in the horizontal dimension and reweld it.

 

[PhilSD211]

Cool racks. I've made some rack similar before with lasered acrylic sides and egg crates as the racks. Not hard to do with a laser cutter.

Have you tried calling the people who made the rack and see if they can get you a couple of "extension" pieces? Shouldn't be hard or cost much.

I abandoned that design because it'd be difficult to put a mesh net on top of the tank... but if using strong magnets.. it'd be highly adjustable.

 

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i can make those with magnets, instead of the ugly brackets.

 

[chaostactics]

i can make those with magnets, instead of the ugly brackets.

I was having difficulty envisioning magnets strong enough to keep a fully loaded rack of that size suspended on 15mm glass. Since the front to back depth isn't that wide it doesn't put the fulcrum way off the glass so that's a plus. On the other hand the sheer force/vertical force on a 6 level loaded up rack seems pretty significant.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I was having difficulty envisioning magnets strong enough to keep a fully loaded rack of that size suspended on 15mm glass. Since the front to back depth isn't that wide it doesn't put the fulcrum way off the glass so that's a plus. On the other hand the sheer force/vertical force on a 6 level loaded up rack seems pretty significant.

I have a guy that's going to design me a rack and I'll keep you posted . I'm going with single angled racks 2 magnets a peace angled at 30 degrees. Stacking 3-4 racks on top of each other . Using the single rack will eliminate the weight issue of having 1 big rack with only 2-4 magnets

 

[chaostactics]

I have a guy that's going to design me a rack and I'll keep you posted . I'm going with single angled racks 2 magnets a peace angled at 30 degrees. Stacking 3-4 racks on top of each other . Using the single rack will eliminate the weight issue of having 1 big rack with only 2-4 magnets

That's a neat idea. I find magnets to be a cost limiting factor as truely sealed ones tend to be relatively expensive

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

That's a neat idea. I find magnets to be a cost limiting factor as truely sealed ones tend to be relatively expensive

This is what I have coming in just they will be in black . 20/25/30 angles so I can play around and see what works the best