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"If you want to upgrade your tank I want you to upgrade my front porch!"
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Thank you
I was able to get a third coat of Kills on the inside of the canopy today, and i started on the stain. (I hate trying to match stain)
This is my desk that sits to the left of the tank that i am trying to get close to.
This is the canopy with one coat of stain on it
This is my desk that sits to the left of the tank that i am trying to get close to.
This is the canopy with one coat of stain on it
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Thanks. The shop is the Maintenance shop at where I work. It's 5 blocks from my house so it makes things much easier. We have a full wood shop so it's very convenient. It comes in handy in the summer for lawn care. I always come and grab all our lawn equipment.
After i got fed up with trying to catch the wrasse i went to work to mess with the canopy. i didn't really have a plan on building this. i was just going on what i didn;t like from when i built the first one. i was walking around lowes and walked past the heat registers (i wish there was a way to make a light bulb picture here)
i still will have to smooth out the edges but it was just the rough cut. but it was getting late and wanted to go home.
I am going to add either one or two more floor registers on the top since the lights will be hanging on the inside of the hood. i put a hinge on the one side that way it will double as a feeding door.
i still will have to smooth out the edges but it was just the rough cut. but it was getting late and wanted to go home.
I am going to add either one or two more floor registers on the top since the lights will be hanging on the inside of the hood. i put a hinge on the one side that way it will double as a feeding door.
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fatoldsun
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Hey I used that trap (thanks also Jim). I was trying to catch a Singapore Angel. I couldn't keep my 6-line out. It kept going in and scaring the angel out. Mine will eat anything at anytime. Don't give up. It'll happenHere fishy fishy!
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Every fish in my tank entered this trap except the Six Line! GRRRRR!!!! i will leave it in the tank overnight and try again tomorrow to catch him!
Thank you Jim for lending me the fish trap!
Hey Matt are you going to put duck work on them heat registers. LOL
I have my HVAC guy coming over today. Except we run natural gas not oil sorry.
Brass is a compound of copper and zinc. Rust quickly when exposed to salt air. Bronze is a different story. Copper and tin. Basically salt water proof but you will have issues with brass. Salt air will tear it up.
So stainless steel it will be
fatoldsun
NJRC Member
Zinc sucks. Anything (zucchini - autocorrected from zinc. Too funny to delete) plated rusts far too quickly with even indirect exposure to salt moisture. I know when my dad had his sailboat he kept bronze-wool instead of steel wool on the boat - kept in the water in Manahawkin Bay - and it kept indefinitely. Came in handy when the battery leads would get corroded.
I think some of the stainless stuff is a hoax. For example I bet the "pin" of a SS piano hinge would still be zinc plated steel.