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First who the hell is Henry??
This is Henry
Still a little Fancy goldfish and he's Black.. And he stands in a little 25 litre tank on a old vintage chabbychick coffee table.
Now, Henry is steadily growing the owners feel kinda sorry for him and decided Henry needs more space.. But still would like him to stay on the coffee table.. They want a tank on it in about the same length of the table 135cmx35cmx25cm. And the tank needs to fit the over all apartments enterior.. So after looking around, sucking up the interior details and all is Hipster, Vintage, Chabbychick kinda steampunk fashion. Now that's going to be a nice challange! Right up my aley. The table is rock solid but made out of an old vintage pickup trucks wooden loading platform.. There is no darn mm of straight surface to find.. How do we get a straight tank in this dimensions on there without making it a complete out of fashion straight glass box.
Thinking back to my latest Garden tank experiment which proofed to be very solid and safe construction concept.
long story short, cut the crap, Henry is Fancy, Henry needs a fancy tank in a fancy livingroom.
And pics say more than a 1000 words. Anyway Henry goes victorian style steampunk and out of the box..
Right now i'm still in the process of gathering and preparing materials.. But the blue print is there and it's a work in progress. No turning back..
Bottom panel is going to be 22mm Multiplex, the glass is going to be integrated into the wood. To wood is going to be all around Epoxy coated.. It getting an antique Maroon brown transparant coating.
The net glass dimension gets 123x31,5x21cm, so roughly we wont have more than 90 kilo to support. 21 cm hieght results in 4mm glass beeing strong enough.
To get a flat surface on a crooked surface there is only one way, using a set of adjustable feet dividing the weight.
Metric T nuts and bolds.. 6 total will result in less than 20 kilo strain per bold. Still needs to get a counter nut later on of course.
To make it fancy, each corner gets a old style brass loin paw.. As you can see, the slid the glass is goin to be situated in has a cross section at each corner.
When the glass is in, there still will be 2 x 10 mm slid left open.. Slids are 5x5mm so to mask that and keep it in the same fashion, a little 10mm piece of a 5x5mm brass rod is going to fill the open slids in the corners. Once it is glued in all gets a last clear epoxy finnish to fill up any open spaces and also cover teh brass.
For the light Henry doesn't need much, but still gets a lot.. i found a very nice suiting aluminium led strip profile. Coded the P7 found them at ebay Germany They are for regular SMD led strip.. It's going to be 1 metre 19 watt cool white strip, remotely controlled with a dimmer..
That 3,6mm hole at each end is perfet to tap some M4 thread. The profile is 100 cm, tank is 123cm. That's where the 6x4mm brass tube comes in. Solder a M4 thread into the brass tube and screwed into the aluminium profile. And extend the lenght with brass tubing.. Than the the little metal M5 pneumatic 90° M5 socket/nipple comes to the rescue. They come in Brass or in Nickle plated, not yet decided which one, but got them both. Tap some M5 thread in the brass tubes other end and the 90° elbow can be screwed on. The light tube will only be 3 cm above the glass makes it 5 cm above the water level. So i need a little piece of 3cm tube standing again on the glass. That's where a little piece of 6mm aluminium U profile come in screwed to the tube as retainer stand on the glass. So that's fr the light stand..
That's it so far.. So you have a rough idea where i'm going with this Fancy tank for Henry.. I'll keep you posted on it's development.. Any questions or comments, shoot! All yours.
This is Henry
Still a little Fancy goldfish and he's Black.. And he stands in a little 25 litre tank on a old vintage chabbychick coffee table.
Now, Henry is steadily growing the owners feel kinda sorry for him and decided Henry needs more space.. But still would like him to stay on the coffee table.. They want a tank on it in about the same length of the table 135cmx35cmx25cm. And the tank needs to fit the over all apartments enterior.. So after looking around, sucking up the interior details and all is Hipster, Vintage, Chabbychick kinda steampunk fashion. Now that's going to be a nice challange! Right up my aley. The table is rock solid but made out of an old vintage pickup trucks wooden loading platform.. There is no darn mm of straight surface to find.. How do we get a straight tank in this dimensions on there without making it a complete out of fashion straight glass box.
Thinking back to my latest Garden tank experiment which proofed to be very solid and safe construction concept.
long story short, cut the crap, Henry is Fancy, Henry needs a fancy tank in a fancy livingroom.
And pics say more than a 1000 words. Anyway Henry goes victorian style steampunk and out of the box..
Right now i'm still in the process of gathering and preparing materials.. But the blue print is there and it's a work in progress. No turning back..
Bottom panel is going to be 22mm Multiplex, the glass is going to be integrated into the wood. To wood is going to be all around Epoxy coated.. It getting an antique Maroon brown transparant coating.
The net glass dimension gets 123x31,5x21cm, so roughly we wont have more than 90 kilo to support. 21 cm hieght results in 4mm glass beeing strong enough.
To get a flat surface on a crooked surface there is only one way, using a set of adjustable feet dividing the weight.
Metric T nuts and bolds.. 6 total will result in less than 20 kilo strain per bold. Still needs to get a counter nut later on of course.
To make it fancy, each corner gets a old style brass loin paw.. As you can see, the slid the glass is goin to be situated in has a cross section at each corner.
When the glass is in, there still will be 2 x 10 mm slid left open.. Slids are 5x5mm so to mask that and keep it in the same fashion, a little 10mm piece of a 5x5mm brass rod is going to fill the open slids in the corners. Once it is glued in all gets a last clear epoxy finnish to fill up any open spaces and also cover teh brass.
For the light Henry doesn't need much, but still gets a lot.. i found a very nice suiting aluminium led strip profile. Coded the P7 found them at ebay Germany They are for regular SMD led strip.. It's going to be 1 metre 19 watt cool white strip, remotely controlled with a dimmer..
That 3,6mm hole at each end is perfet to tap some M4 thread. The profile is 100 cm, tank is 123cm. That's where the 6x4mm brass tube comes in. Solder a M4 thread into the brass tube and screwed into the aluminium profile. And extend the lenght with brass tubing.. Than the the little metal M5 pneumatic 90° M5 socket/nipple comes to the rescue. They come in Brass or in Nickle plated, not yet decided which one, but got them both. Tap some M5 thread in the brass tubes other end and the 90° elbow can be screwed on. The light tube will only be 3 cm above the glass makes it 5 cm above the water level. So i need a little piece of 3cm tube standing again on the glass. That's where a little piece of 6mm aluminium U profile come in screwed to the tube as retainer stand on the glass. So that's fr the light stand..
That's it so far.. So you have a rough idea where i'm going with this Fancy tank for Henry.. I'll keep you posted on it's development.. Any questions or comments, shoot! All yours.
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