making a stand

[super7]

Would MIG wleding work ok to put the stand together or should i use a differnet form. The stand is for a 65 gallon tank and beside it is going to be a fiberglass tank I am making it is 18x18 and 24 inches tall. so there is roughly 90 gallons of water ontop of the stand.

[Static]

Originally Posted by super7

Would MIG wleding work ok to put the stand together or should i use a differnet form. The stand is for a 65 gallon tank and beside it is going to be a fiberglass tank I am making it is 18x18 and 24 inches tall. so there is roughly 90 gallons of water ontop of the stand.

Water is approximately 10 lbs per gallon so 90 gallons of water will be about 900 lbs, if that's any interest to you....

Any welding process, if done properly will be adequate to hold your stand together. I personally use MIG, it's fast and relatively easy. Just make sure you're confident in what you're doing before you put 900 lbs of water on top of it.

Good luck and have fun

[Palster]

Originally Posted by super7

Would MIG wleding work ok to put the stand together or should i use a differnet form. The stand is for a 65 gallon tank and beside it is going to be a fiberglass tank I am making it is 18x18 and 24 inches tall. so there is roughly 90 gallons of water ontop of the stand.

I built the stand for my 135 gallon (well over 1000 lbs. of load on this stand) with a small 110 volt MIG welder. I think the key is to make sure you have enough practice and skill to know that you can rely on your welds to support that kind of load.

[Scavenger]

OMG! I came into this thread expecting to hear someone rant about how they were fed up and wouldn't take it any more.........And I call myself a reefer? It didn't even click!

[super7]

I got the plans all drawn up just going to get an engineer friend to have a look at them to reasure my parents then get to the welding in metal shop at school.