Rubik's Cube: Cabinet done, New pics 17/10/10

[Aquadepot]

Jason,

The Tunze Silence looks loaded under all that plumbing and stuff be keen to see how it copes

Graeme

[spanishmack]

Graeme,

the only thing i was missing on the water test i did was an extra 90 elbow so i'm confident it will work well, there was plenty of flow at 1.8 m head, to assess the flow i may even get the pump wet with duct tape joins on the elbows that need to wait till final postioning of the tank and catch a bucket full of water. that will also give me the chance to wet test the sump

[spanishmack]

did some work on the stand today, i found too much surface rust so i had to strip the paint and do it again. i used my trusty cordless grinder with a special wheel from bunnings to strip it off, then an orbital sander to clean it up. prepped the metal with cold galvanising zinc paint in a can and plan on giving it 2 coats of Beckers 2 pack primer and 3-4 coats of Beckers 2 pack laquer, colour: Laminex Classic Biege. using compressor and gravity feed spray gun

grinding


grinding


cold gal


cold gal


doors are routed with ogee bit, will fit them tomorrow. jarrah edging will go around the top to protect the edges from knocks. the doors and top will have 6mm bullnose. skirting is Lamb's Tongue. bollection moulding to go around base of tank similar to the prototype crown that is pictured in its place. the doors are just taped there to get a feel to how they will look. the side scribe board will go right to the top, its just temporarily placed there.


i hope to get all the cabinetry finished tomorrow, but i think time will get away from me, if anything i want the cabinet finished and fitted to the final postion, then pull it all out and get primer coat done. i will do the bollection moulds during the week. hope to get started making noise at 9am tomorrow and be at my boss's factory unit painting it by 1pm.

[spiro]

That looks great mate!

PS love the milwaukee!

[spanishmack]

Thanks spiro

i love the milwaukee too, 5 year warranty on the tool and 2 years on the battery took 2 and a half batterys to strip back the stand, took about 40 mins or so

[spanishmack]

Cube Corals

1. Green Acro Solitaryensis
2. Pink Lemonade
3. Yellow Stag
4. Green Metallic Flat Branch
5. Blue Echinata
6. Purple Milli
7. Red Acro
8. Yellow Bushy Acro
9. Pink Seriatopora
10. Green Scrolling Montipora
11. Purple Plating Montipora
12. Superman Montipora
13. Rainbow Montipora
14. Yellow Tubinaria
15. Orange Tubastrea
16. Red Acan
17. Blue Red Acan
18. Orange Acan
19. Orange Green Scoly
20. Purple Blue Scoly
21. GreenTorch
22. Green Hammer
23. Yellow Sinularia
24. Blue Clam
25. Green Clam
26. Orange Yuma
27. Purple Fluffy Morph
28. Red Mushroom
29. Red Zoos
30. Purple Zoos
31. Blue Zoos

[spanishmack]

well i didnt get what i wanted done once again, i went out at 12 to get a trailer and didnt get back into tank work till 3. have decided now to get all of the tank sorted then paint it all last. then i can change my mind and not have to repaint

hanging the doors and mock up of how it will look


scribe panels added


hardwood edge glued to top with PVA glue, pinned on with nail gun and cramps overnight


fitting the lambs tongue skirting


cabintery complete apart from filling and sanding




easy access


front


left side


Bare Canvas, the feed lines for the auto water changer, there will be a RO feed line to fill a reservior, and plan on getting some power points installed


the top is still drying so it has been omitted, along with the bollection along the bottom


vertex will be hung from ceiling not rest on crown


doors open wide

[Gwithian]

Really nice Jason, must be great to see it all coming together so well. Seriously reconsidering my tank placement now. that RO and water change to outside is awesome.

[StripestheEel]

Looks the business!

[spanishmack]

Really nice Jason, must be great to see it all coming together so well. Seriously reconsidering my tank placement now. that RO and water change to outside is awesome.

thanks Gwithian, yeh its nice to see it come together, i'm really enjoying it, i dont really and really want the build to end. yeh the RO and water changer was from my previous tank so its ready to go.

Looks the business!

thanks Matt, slowly getting there, can wait to see it all laquered

i did nothing to the tank today, went and collected 200L of saltwater from a disabled fishing platform 6 meters above the water. PS i use a 15L bucket to pull up the water didnt need to go the gym tonight

will grab another 200L tomorrow as its due to start raining on wednesday here. i'm setting up a qarantine tank for my radiant wrasse due to arrive this week or next, that will be 3 systems running once i get the cube done.

once the cube is done i plan on pulling down my other tank and selling off most of the stuff, got a Teco TC20 to go, a sump, a marine sources skimmer, some aquabee pumps, tunze osmolator, other bits and bobs, 2 thermostat controllers etc