Hotspike's Stand - Progress Pic added.

[gklaw]

A new brave design for Mike.

Here's the foundation, the rest should be going up quick. Was concerned with the wt. of a 120g and go with 6 legs. I thinks the 4 legs will look much better and the legs seems to be stock enough Using 5 and 6 layers of 5/8" plywood glued/nailed and screwed to transfer the wt. to those legs.

Will keep the suspense for now but new progress pic should be coming soon

[Diztrbd1]

Tanks gonna be awfully close to the floor eh? lol
Seriously tho...Looks like a pretty strong foundation there Gordon. I'd have to say your probably right about the 4 legs looking better. I'd say 6 legs was better if it were 6', but that's 5' in length if I'm not mistaken. Looking froward to seeing it shape into a stand.

[gklaw]

Actually not a bad idea. I have one sitting above 4" above the floor on one side of a split level; another one sitting about 15" above the floor with the TV above

But no, that was just the foundation. Progress pic added. Add door and solid edging on top on Sunday and it will be complete. Still designing the canopy in my head. Will see how the stand looks when complete,

[gklaw]

Almost ready for stain and varnish

[tony1928]

That's some nice work Gordon. I've yet to see a stand for a tank that size/heavy using feet. Pretty cool design.

[neven]

beauitful work gordon looks great without the varnish

[gklaw]

That's some nice work Gordon. I've yet to see a stand for a tank that size/heavy using feet. Pretty cool design.

Thanks,

Honestly, neither have I But absolutely confidently that it will hold. I was going to put 8 levellers under it but no confidence that they would stand 1,200 lbs. The legs are solid aluminum and the disc under each legs is 2.5" diameter. My wife's Yamaha C5 is only sitting on three plastic disc.

Okay, I have a 150gallon plexiglass sitting around, I will load test it before delivery Mmmm, need to check with HotSpike if this is on a plywood floor though? Will check with my structural engineers friend about 300 lb on plywood.

beauitful work gordon looks great without the varnish

Thanks, wait till it gets two coats of stain and 3 coats of varnish and wet sanding with 600 grit.

[gklaw]

Well stand and matching canopy on top are essentially complete and ready for stain and varnish.

Legs have been replaced with a base.

[charles]

simply beautiful

[rich16]

Wow, that's very nice work...impressive!