ChukeeR's 266G Reef Savvy + Synergy Reef Build / Upgrade

HiddenUser · Apr 13, 2015

booth2010 said:
From the looks of that stand I dont think you would ever have to worry about it failing. That is one heavy duty stand.

Yeah - I might have over engineered it a bit. Better safe than sorry and I had fun putting it together. Last time I built something with lumber was like 15 years ago in high school...and that was just a bird house, lol. Put some good use to the power tools that I inherited from my other half's family though!

HiddenUser · Apr 16, 2015

Electricians came this morning and added 3 outlets / 3 20amp circuits. I moved the stand over, just need to paint it. Then I'll start setting up my fish room while I wait for my tank to be delivered.

FrankAbagnale · Apr 18, 2015

Looking good!

HiddenUser · Apr 20, 2015

Painted the bench, uncrated my sump and unpackaged my skimmer...for the second time. LOTS to be done yet...will be slow moving until my tank shows up though.

booth2010 · Apr 20, 2015

That is a massive protein skimmer, nice looking sump too. For my dream build I am going to have Synergy make it.

revhtree · Apr 20, 2015

Man this is a great build!

booth2010 · May 8, 2015

Any recent updates Chukee?

HiddenUser · May 8, 2015

booth2010 said:
Any recent updates Chukee?

Ordered all the plumbing pieces, 200lbs of Live Sand and 150lbs of Pukani Dry Rock, 50lbs of Complex Tonga Branches. I'm not sure the UPS guy was thrilled to drop off 13+ boxes at my house, haha...Just waiting for the tank at this point. Chatted with Felix this morning...It's looking like end of June.

This past Sunday I also nailed my finger on a table saw...so I'm slightly out of commission. Still have my finger at least, but it's pretty mangled.

booth2010 · May 8, 2015

ChukeeR said:
. I'm not sure the UPS guy was thrilled to drop off 13+ boxes at my house, haha...Just waiting for the tank at this point. Chatted with Felix this morning...It's looking like end of June.

This past Sunday I also nailed my finger on a table saw...so I'm slightly out of commission. Still have my finger at least, but it's pretty mangled.

Haha im sure the 13+ boxes werent the probelm it was probably the 400+lbs of stuff in the boxes lol. Sounds like your gonna be doing a lot of twiddling your thumbs for a bit. In the past 6 months my grandpa has got his finger on the table saw twice, I think he finally learned his lesson the second time around haha.

booth2010 · May 26, 2015

Finger healed up enough to work on the tank? I know you can feel the pain for months depending on how bad you damaged the nerve.

HiddenUser · May 26, 2015

booth2010 said:
Finger healed up enough to work on the tank? I know you can feel the pain for months depending on how bad you damaged the nerve.

Actually just had surgery (skin graft) last Tuesday. Back to work today, but still in quite a bit of pain. Just maintaining my 90G and 40G tanks has become quite a chore with one of my hands being all wrapped up.

revhtree · May 26, 2015

Sorry to hear about your finger buddy!

booth2010 · May 26, 2015

Ouch. At least youll hopefully be on the right track to recovery now.

HiddenUser · May 26, 2015

revhtree said:
Sorry to hear about your finger buddy!

booth2010 said:
Ouch. At least youll hopefully be on the right track to recovery now.

Thanks guys. Hopefully I'll be back to 100%-ish in 4-8 weeks.

thejuggernaut · May 31, 2015

@ChukeeR , do you use table saws at work or just for your own DIY projects. If I used one daily I would get one of those sawstops. Those things are insane.

HiddenUser · Jun 1, 2015

thejuggernaut said:
@ChukeeR , do you use table saws at work or just for your own DIY projects. If I used one daily I would get one of those sawstops. Those things are insane.

Just a DIY - Honey Do List project...I work in IT and bang on keyboards for a living.

I've seen Saw Stop as well. The saw I was using was actually passed down from my girlfriends grandparents so I couldn't say 'No'. and buying a newer saw with all the safety features was out of question because 'I already had a saw"...For the cost of the medical bills (even with insurance) that thing would have paid for itself. I'm already at $3k out of pocket.

I've read some reviews that it does have false detections (wet / moist wood, staples in the wood, anything else that can conduct electrical current), but for even losing a $50-100 blade + cartridge due to a false detection, it'd be worth it to me albeit frustrating at the time.