Aquarium Bar build

[danny zubot]

Just finished framing the canopy. Framers don't laugh, I'm' not a pro. I did manage to get it to within 95% plum and level. It's pretty sturdy too, more than enough to house my luminarc reflector and dual t-5 lights.

[Skimmerking]

wow that is it for pictures come on DANNY

[danny zubot]

What? What do you mean? I can't tell if you are being sarcastic.

[Skimmerking]

there

[chris121277]

So.....hows the build coming? any progress or new pictures?

[danny zubot]

I ran out of screws the other day and company has been here, so nothing new to report. The next steps will be skinning it, then resisting the urge to move the tank right away.

[robzilla]

looking good!! you might motivate me to build a stand... working on a tree house for the kids currently

[danny zubot]

looking good!! you might motivate me to build a stand... working on a tree house for the kids currently

I might have had this done a while ago if it wasn't for things that I was doing for the kids.

Not much to add. I just added the shelves for the refugium and sump, and gave them a preliminary coat of paint.

[danny zubot]

Just finished the first phase of skinning the bar. I now have to remove all of the panels so that I can seal and paint them. I also have to re-level the whole thing a bit since the kids have adopted the bar as their new jungle gym.

Once I've re-installed the panels I'll have a bunch of taping and mudding to do. Booooo!

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by danny zubot

Just finished the first phase of skinning the bar. I now have to remove all of the panels so that I can seal and paint them. I also have to re-level the whole thing a bit since the kids have adopted the bar as their new jungle gym.

Once I've re-installed the panels I'll have a bunch of taping and mudding to do. Booooo!

Taping and mudding? your using drywall mud?
on MDF you might be better off to use bondo....others my disagree with me but thats what I've always used (then tape isn't necessary)