INDY DIY GUYS

[mike dunagan]

As promised
1- All the supplies for the DYI overflows (tomorrow's project)
2-Filter pad Mother N Law gave me 5 total. I use in all filters
3-Filter pad in front of a 55 for size comparison.
4-Scrubbies I bought
5-egg crate I borrowed!
6-pull the bioballs out of sump to make changes to my plan
7- bioballs in the bucket
8-sump JD_Man and I did
9- front shot of the sump
10-cutting feet for eggcrate
11- siliconing feet on
12-up close siliconing
13-placing them into corners to hold egg crate
14-and another
15- putting egg crate on
16-egg crate in place
17-fill with bioballs
18-still with more
19-opening scrubbies
20-putting them in a bucket to wash with warm water
21-crazy shot wife took
22-add scrubbies
23-not full so will buy more tomorrow and finish.

I will add more tomorrow and Friday!

 

[mike dunagan]

forgot the last three

 

[Trippingpara]

Looking nice. Like the double tank, especially the height of it.

 

[mike dunagan]

I was really tired of the metal stands and how low the tanks are. So I made my own better!

Also today I started making the 6 DYI overflows. I went looking all over indy for more of the scrubbies... I finally broke and bought more at the store for a little more money!

I ran out of supplies. SO I went and bought more. I am almost finished with them. All I have to do is sand, paint, drill, and connect them. I made two for each of the 120s. I will post some pics of them tomorrow!

I made one then started on the four that I had materials for. I seriously under estimated how much I would need.

SO I ran out half way.

 

[midnight]

lookin good so far

thats alot of fittings lol
and why do your 90's go inside each other?
just odd to me,i get matching ones and just add a small piece of pipe in between

and i bet you wish you added 2 legs in the middle under the egg crate

 

[mike dunagan]

Not worried about the egg crate. They are street 90s. I have one street 90 that is a 90 with a slip and then a piece that fits into another just like inch pipe. I do not have to cut and glue two ends. Saves space and time

 

[mike dunagan]

I have been crazy busy working today. I will post all the days work in a bit.

 

[Pharaoh]

OK, so here goes round number one for me. We finished these in record time. It's nice to have a good group of people to make all the little things happen while the big things are going on.

1. Van full of lumber
2. Lumber
3-5. Precutting all of the lumber
6. All wood cut and ready

 

[Pharaoh]

The next four pics show how the legs of the stand will be put together. If you are into woodworking and you don't have one of these, then its time to get serious. These things make your job loads easier. It is called a Kregg-Jig.

we put dracor to work doing the jig ROFL while be predrilled the other wood.

 

[Pharaoh]

Now come the fun part of putting everything together.

Here are the tops and bottoms.

Starting to add in the "Jiggy" pieces.