kingofnobbys":3eq1p6xi said:
Quick suggestion , put heavy duty casters or maybe bed base "glides" under the base/cabinet, will make it all a lot easier to move about when your need to.
It's not ever going to need to be moved luckily. I built it quite heavy on purpose and wanted it to be more so a furniture piece than a tank rack. And it's earthquake strapped at the back to a wall stud (California) so it's not going anywhere until it needs to move house.
kingofnobbys":3eq1p6xi said:
How easy is it for someone to push / slide the tanks off the top of the cabinet ?
Basically impossible with the earthquake strapping. Like mentioned, I live in cali and I have a child, don't need anything falling on her in an earthquake. But, even without the strapping, the double stack tanks can't be removed from the base unintentionally.
I trimmed the build with maple hardwood, so like you can see in this pic:
A few inches above the doors on the cabinet, is a trim of 3/4 maple hardwood wrapping the cabinet and double stack. This locks the doublestack to the base.The only way to remove the doublestack is to move the whole thing off the wall, and slide the doublestack backwards off the stand. But obviously when it's pushed against the wall, it's not going anywhere.
All that to say I'm very confident in the rigidity of the whole thing. I might have been a bit concerned if I made the base out of ply, but it's made of 2x4s wrapped in ply for a finish. Which is way overkill structure wise.
kingofnobbys":3eq1p6xi said:
they will have to be lifted about 1" up to be removed )
Actually I suppose my tanks could be lifted off the base too in that way, as the trim piece travels 2 inches up the double stack (only glued on the base side though) but they really are too heavy to be lifted accidently. They aren't even too convenient to lift purposely which is why I'd slide it off the back if needed.
kingofnobbys":3eq1p6xi said:
Another option is a DAR quad perimeter on top the cabinet in your case the dual bay tank drops into , this will stop it from being slid off the top of the cabinet you've built.
Yeah that is what I did with the maple. It was to dress up the look and add that "locking in".
Anything that I need to move gets casters on it. I have a 400lb 14 inch resaw bandsaw that stays in the corner of my shop until its needed. And trust me, I'm not gonna be walking that inch by inch across my shop when I need it. Casters are the way to go. I just don't need to move this, and I don't want it to move.
-Brandon