Drews 400!

[Wanderer]

Drew,

My spine has only just recovered from moving that damned thing last week


let me know when the snow clears, and we have 10 guys ready to move the tank

[DJ_drew]

haha no kidding we almost killed ourselves and there was 5 of us so the more the merrier!

im thinking friday afternoon 2:00 for those of you that feel up to helping!

[DJ_drew]

Originally Posted by 04scoobysti

I can help if you need it. LMK.

Derek

hey derek!

thanks for the offer but its quite a drive for you from delta!
we would love the help! and i'll make sure to have an extar beer waiting for you if you like!!

[DJ_drew]

hey guys
so heres the details!
we are doing it this saturday @ 12noon so if you are free and willing to help we sure could use it!

there will be pizza and beer for everyone and of course the obvious tour and fish sightings!

pm me if you're free and are up to coming out!!

Drew

thanks a mill!

[DJ_drew]

So the move is on for tomorrow!! if anyone else likes free pizza and beer and wants to stop by please feel free!! we could use all the help we can get!

Drew

[fishytime]

good luck and strong backs to ya!

[DJ_drew]

ok so heres how things ended up after the weekend!
first things first i should tell you i have an insanely worrisome landlord!

so we started in the backyard!


Bruce was out to help us!

this is where the tank had to go!
so we ended up taking out the railing to make life easier
this is the space in front of the front door!


and unfortunately thats as far as we got!
the tank is 1mm to big to fit through the door! i %&$# you not! 1mm!
so we talked about taking the inner frame of the door off which has the weather stripping on it, not the outside frame and the landlord was having non of it!!
so the next step is either leave the tank there until i move which would be easiest or get one of the bottom panes of glass off the tank, get the tank in the house, and then redo the bottom of the tank!

now either way i have to get the eurobracing fixed so i might get the manufacturer to do all of the above!

heres the state of the euro-bracing now




any thoughts on the euro-bracing?
ive been told by jason that the mfctr of the tank has said regardless of euro-bracing the strength of the tank is uncompromised

so ya thoughts would be appreciated!

Drew

[KevinK]

Originally Posted by DJ_drew

ok so heres how things ended up after the weekend!
first things first i should tell you i have an insanely worrisome landlord!

so we started in the backyard!


Bruce was out to help us!

this is where the tank had to go!
so we ended up taking out the railing to make life easier
this is the space in front of the front door!


and unfortunately thats as far as we got!
the tank is 1mm to big to fit through the door! i %&$# you not! 1mm!
so we talked about taking the inner frame of the door off which has the weather stripping on it, not the outside frame and the landlord was having non of it!!
so the next step is either leave the tank there until i move which would be easiest or get one of the bottom panes of glass off the tank, get the tank in the house, and then redo the bottom of the tank!

now either way i have to get the eurobracing fixed so i might get the manufacturer to do all of the above!

heres the state of the euro-bracing now




any thoughts on the euro-bracing?
ive been told by jason that the mfctr of the tank has said regardless of euro-bracing the strength of the tank is uncompromised



so ya thoughts would be appreciated!

Drew

my crack was not as big as yours, however fairly close, and as mentioned on page one, my solution worked out perfect:

in case you feel nececerry, you could even laminate an entire length on top of the cracked, minr is fine with about 20 inches

cant se the crack in the bracing, where is it.

I had mine cracked as well right in the middel (2 years back), I went to get a strip of 12 mm glass (about 20 inches long and the with of the bracing, cleand the hel out of the bracing and silicone'd it on there, never a problem

watch out when you work in the tank, when you hang over to put things in ore maintain, you always lean, no matter what, unless you have the tank on the floor.

it is the leaning against it that cracks it (ore the belly hanging over it)

what I would sugest is to make a 2x6 frame around the tank on its flat side, to avoid the presure on the edge

[DJ_drew]

thats a good idea and the cracks are the v shape designs in the glass

[lastlight]

This is brutal. Why the heck was the landlord even there the day you tried to get it in? Does he live upstairs? I'd have just moved it down there, not told him of the clearance issue and just fixed the frame up later. Man this stinks.