[Killietalk] RE: base materials

[Joel Antkowiak <mrkillie at optonline_net>]

Edd,

If you have the shelves I think you have, why not reinforce the shelves from
below with 2x4s? Plenty of room to screw into from the side.

Joel

> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:19:00 -0700
> From: "Kray, Edd" <Edd_Kray at rf.doe.gov>
> Subject: [Killietalk] base materials
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
>
>
>
> I'd like to ask some advice from you materials experts and amateur
> engineers out there.
>
> I'm planning on setting up a couple new rows of 2 1/2 gallon glass tanks
> this weekend. I'll be placing them onto those plastic shelf-units that
> are so popular from the Home Depot. The units are about 5 feet high,
> hold 5 plastic shelves and the uprights are the plastic poles that fit
> into holes in the shelves.
>
> Anyway, I've had these shelf units for a couple years and kept 4 plastic
> 2's (like we use at our shows) on each shelf. The shelves have slumped a
> little in the middle due to the weight (Maybe 1/8 inch in the center).
>
> Well, I want my new rows of tanks to be flat and level.
>
> So my question is, what would you recommend as reinforcement under the
> new tanks? It needs to be thin and strong. It seems that plywood, even
> like 1/2" might slump and I certainly don't' have the headroom between
> the shelves to set them on 2/4's/ Is there anything thin, (and
> inexpensive) but with the structural rigidity to keep the row from
> slumping in the middle.
>


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