f14peter
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FNG, so please bear with me . . .
Wife and I just picked up an All-Glass 90g drilled w/overflow and basic black pine stand and it's currently sitting in our living room empty.
Frankly, the set-up doesn't seem all that right with me, in regards to the tank sitting on the stand. The bottom rim of the tank merely rests of the rim of the stand, and with very little contact surface (The tank rim extends over the inner rim of the stand) and there's nothing supporting the tank elsewhere other than the rim. Is that how it goes? It strikes me that things would lock together a bit more solidly and there would be more direct support for the tank. I know when the tank gets filled it will be fairly inmovable, but a decent tug on the tank right now and I can slide it off-center.
I read in another thread about a LFS installing an AGA stand upside down, but I'm not sure that's the case as there's only one shelf in the stand, and it's on the bottom (you can look down through the bottom of the tank all the way through to the bottom shelf of the stand) and it is exactly how the store had it displayed (Although a thought crossed my mind, maybe it is upside down but the store had it that way to make it easier to seperate the tank and stand). I haven't looked at the underside of the stand yet, but we'll be dismantling the set-up and moving it out of the way for a new floor installation and I plan on taking a peek then.
Also, and I'm no structural engineer, it doesn't seem like there's a heck of a lot of support built into the stand, particularly along the front and back. The boards running vertically on the front/back portion only overlap the horizontal pieces supporting the tank by around an inch or so. The ends seem a bit more supported but it doesn't really inspire confidence, after all we're talking about 900 or so pounds when filled. I have enough woodworking skills to add a few support pieces, if that's a necessary (And without compromising the stand's integrity as my wife fears!).
Sometimes I wonder if this is a knock-off stand the store had instead of an authentic AGA.
Wife and I just picked up an All-Glass 90g drilled w/overflow and basic black pine stand and it's currently sitting in our living room empty.
Frankly, the set-up doesn't seem all that right with me, in regards to the tank sitting on the stand. The bottom rim of the tank merely rests of the rim of the stand, and with very little contact surface (The tank rim extends over the inner rim of the stand) and there's nothing supporting the tank elsewhere other than the rim. Is that how it goes? It strikes me that things would lock together a bit more solidly and there would be more direct support for the tank. I know when the tank gets filled it will be fairly inmovable, but a decent tug on the tank right now and I can slide it off-center.
I read in another thread about a LFS installing an AGA stand upside down, but I'm not sure that's the case as there's only one shelf in the stand, and it's on the bottom (you can look down through the bottom of the tank all the way through to the bottom shelf of the stand) and it is exactly how the store had it displayed (Although a thought crossed my mind, maybe it is upside down but the store had it that way to make it easier to seperate the tank and stand). I haven't looked at the underside of the stand yet, but we'll be dismantling the set-up and moving it out of the way for a new floor installation and I plan on taking a peek then.
Also, and I'm no structural engineer, it doesn't seem like there's a heck of a lot of support built into the stand, particularly along the front and back. The boards running vertically on the front/back portion only overlap the horizontal pieces supporting the tank by around an inch or so. The ends seem a bit more supported but it doesn't really inspire confidence, after all we're talking about 900 or so pounds when filled. I have enough woodworking skills to add a few support pieces, if that's a necessary (And without compromising the stand's integrity as my wife fears!).
Sometimes I wonder if this is a knock-off stand the store had instead of an authentic AGA.