Pipes not fitting/ big lag bolts for stand?

rockethippo

rockethippo

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I was at Canadian tire and they had a 3/4 inch valve and a 1 inchx3/4 inch adapter. The 3/4 inch fit in the 1 inch part of the adapter and touch the rim of the 3/4 part of the adapter. Are you saposed to get a part thats 1/4 inches bigger than the other part is marked as?
If I were to build a stand with 4x4" wood, do I need those huge 1/2" wide by 8" long lag bolts to nail the wood together? Also do I also need some sort of glue?
 
I think the 1/2 lag bolts would be severe over engineering.
 
You need to make sure with your piping parts that you get couplings. say..to put togeher a piece of 3/4" pipe you would need a 3'4" coupling..and to fit together a piece of 1" pipe to 3/4" pipe you would need a reducer coupling. And yeah..those lag bolts would be severe over kill...

Blue
 
Why not build it like a small deck. 4x4 posts in the corners. Wrap the around with 2x6 and hang 2x6 joists. You could probably use 2x4s even. A 100 pound tank isn't that heavy. About 1,000 maybe 1,200 pounds. I have an attic room with 2x4 joists, was retrofit, and it does fun with 5-6 people and furniture. I think most the stands built by people are way overkill engineered to te point where there is no space below the stand. The biggest issue is spreading the weight on the floor across the joints. You just don't want the 4x4 posts in the corners which might not land on the floor joists.
 
Blueiz said:
You need to make sure with your piping parts that you get couplings. say..to put togeher a piece of 3/4" pipe you would need a 3'4" coupling..and to fit together a piece of 1" pipe to 3/4" pipe you would need a reducer coupling. And yeah..those lag bolts would be severe over kill...

Blue
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I sitll don't get it the coupler just said 1"x3/4" the 3/4" valve would fit into the 1" but touch the rim of the 3/4" side. Then i tried putting on a 1" elbow on the 1" side and it touched the rim
 
Have you got the right parts? Can you post a pic of what you are talking about?
Blue
 
hey andy you only used 1 screw for each joint right? And I was thinking to make the basic part of the stand 4x4" then extra bracing 2x4" like germanman said. Will it work okay?Heres a pic to show what I mean

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Sorry blue no pic was playing with them at the store.
 
one screw at each joint, they are good heavy duty screws...but also on each joint there is a metal brace which screws each piece of wood to the joining part...

I dont see any issues with that layout as the the tank will be sitting on the outside edge of the frame. The middle lengths are there for the extra support..That should give you a good stable base for the tank...

Niko
 
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