Another crazy DIY!!! 36 tanks one system...

[five O]

I know it's local. That's why I'm asking. I need to buy weld on 4. If I could find it in vegas that would be great. No shipping just a drive.

Welches on DI/VV will carry it.

 

[jaytizzle]

Hey Troy where do you get the acrylic sheets from.

He gets them local due to high shipping rates (He said this one page back I think) Makes a lot of sense I had to order a sheet once, no one has opaque black near me. I hate it when it costs more to ship something than to purchase it.

My club goes through a bunch of acrylic from time to time when we're doing workshops. I always get my sheets from www.estreetplastics.com. I've made several orders through them myself. Shipping is very reasonable and their material prices seem to be pretty good as well. I know a brick-and-mortar store near me charges about double for the same size sheet as these guys do online.

Troy, that is some ***** nice work dude!

 

[Reefer83]

Welches on DI/VV will carry it.

Thanks

 

[Troylee]

Wow thank you everyone for the kind words... Been super busy at work but got the weekend to get some stuff done hopefully...
@reefer83 sorry man didn't know you were a local haha... There is a few places man "pidemont plastics, welches, piper, sabic, interstate electric, montroy"there all local and carry it...

 

[Cubbies]

Oh man! Talk about skills!

 

[dh350twin]

any updates?

 

[DxSOR25]

Wow and I'm complaining about attempting a 20x20 acrylic fuge build

 

[osprey48]

Looks awesome.

 

[Just Clownin Around]

Just a quick update all tanks are done 100% polished with overflows etc... Waiting on steel for the stand...:xd:

can you do something like these with opaque dividers
might be moving and upgrading the system in the process

 

[Troylee]

can you do something like these with opaque dividers
might be moving and upgrading the system in the process

I know your not talking to me haha..:tongue:

 

[Troylee]

Finally got the steel and whipped up the stand.. Just gotta make the shelves for the center tanks but the rest is done minus grinding and rhino liner...
A few pix... I'll have it knocked it out before game time tomorrow..1smile1

 

[Troylee]

 

[skinz78]

Looking great Lee!

 

[Reef Breeders]

Wow, I can't wait to see the whole thing together. It's gonna be an awesome setup!

 

[bige]

Did you buy the steel already cut?

 

[Troylee]

No I bought 8 sticks and bright them to my work and chopped them up... Took me 2 hours to cut it there or it would have took me all day at home since I'm not set up to do it here at my house... 160 ft of steel in this stand... Total of 47 pieces...

 

[Aquaph8]

Looking good Lee. I know what you mean about trying to cut all that steel at home. I can't wait to get some tables set up, Im getting tired of building stuff on the garage floor. Looking forward to seeing some tanks on that bad boy.

 

[Troylee]

Stand is complete minus painting... I'm gonna enjoy the rest of the day...:sad: should have water in it and running Tuesday or Wednesday in my garage make sure every thing works right then drain it and take it to its home....

 

[swannyson7]

Looks great Lee! 1smile1

 

[Troylee]

Thanks guys for the kind words... Well no pix but I got the stand all grinded and cleaned up and rhino lined... I'll snap some pix tomorrow just gotta plumb it and do a test run with the plumbing... Not sure how it's gonna work yet since it has a single return pump feeding the top 2 tanks... The top tanks will drain to the center and the center to the bottom and the bottom to the sump " haha say that 3 times fast" anyways I can't use a traditional durso pipe since it will introduce air and cause bubbles in the displays "center & bottom" so I have to run full siphons to eliminate that issue... Should be fun dialing it all in lol...:tongue: