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[Entropy]

So you are calling me fat now? WTF?

Wait hang on, someone is at the door.

"Housekeeping, you want me fluff pillow?"

[fjr_wertheimber]

ROFLMAO!!

[Entropy]

Well it is not the sexy steel stand I started with, but it does fit through the front door without having to take it off.

Edited by Entropy, 18 February 2012 - 09:32 PM.

[offroadodge]

good building...

[wizardx322]

Nice stand but could you of just cut an inch or so off the steel stand and re weld it together so that is 35" tall ?

[Entropy]

I don't have any welding equipment (or skills) and I doubt I could get the work done for less than what it cost me to build the new stand. Once I reskin it you will not be able to tell the difference anyway so I am pretty happy. Total cost for the wood stand was $39 and an afternoon out at my father in laws house. I still have to build a shelf on the bottom, but I will be reusing the ply off the steel stand. I hope to be leak testing the tank by Monday, but that will be another thread.

[caferacermike]

I hate to say this but this thread reminds me of when I got my 400g tnak. The seller listed the 400 becuase he had got himself a new tnak of 720g. the 400 was for sale for about 3 weeks and then quickly became not for sale, a couple of months later it came back up again. I decided to buy the 400 and that's when I heard the story about the 720. He ordered it 36" wide thinking it would fit through a standard door (obviously not a carpenter or mechanical kind of guy), also it was 36" tall. Well when the new Starphire tnak arrived they couldn't get it in the house. He had to sell it and bought himself a 900g tnak instead, cept the new one was only 32" wide.

[Entropy]

Ouch! It was definately an oversight on my part. I should have measured the height. Oh well, the tank fits, and now so does the stand.

[offroadodge]

thats what i did when i built my stand, knowing the the door opening was 31" (for the door from garage to kitchen) i starded by building the stand 30" all was good BUT i forgot the trim...1/2" on each side and a toptrim of 3/4" so the stand finished was 31.5" OOOPPPPSSS, built a dolly and wheeled it around the house threw the street to the front door which had an opening of 36". If i knew about this sooner i i could have cut your metal stand and made it bolt together.