New Rack... FINALLY

All 300 or so pounds of it. Yay.

First being built:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6...0001tk6.th.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4...0005bf1.th.jpg

Spacing used:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3...0006mv4.th.jpg

Third Shelf:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5...0007yo9.th.jpg

Heating being installed and parallel wired:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7...0009xl3.th.jpg

Parallel wiring warm side flexwatt:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8...0011lw2.th.jpg

Fully set up with snakes and heat:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3...0017wl2.th.jpg

The rack is heated by using 2ft strips of 11" flexwatt for the cool sides and a 1ft strip of 11' flexwatt for the warm side. It is controlled by a Herpstat 2, and by god, I haven't gotten shocked yet! :) Guess I wired everything ok being a girl and all.

Thanks for looking!

"Guess I wired everything ok being a girl and all"=:8:

Awesome rack Becky :clap:

Awesome Becky! Congrats. How hard was it to wire the flexwatt? I just have nightmares of burning my house down, if I even thought of attempting it.

How long did it take you?

It took... *sigh* around a month. It shouldn't have, but my crappy $3 soldering iron couldn't get hot enough to even melt solder(and THAT'S sad, as it has a very low melting point...). So I found my dad's heavy duty one and zipped through it all.

It's really not hard parallel wiring, you just have to think through it and make sure you connect the correct wires, LoL. It all heated up just fine, and the house is still standing, so... I guess it's ok! :)

Hey, it's still way better than I could do. I'm very impressed. It looks wonderful. :bow:

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

it's still way better than I could do.

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Don't sell yourself short..you could totally pull it off :clap:

Very nice! :sweeet: You're not kidding about that melamine weighing a ton, but at least you'll know that your snakes will be snug as a bug in a rug with all the work you put into that bad boy. Great job!

I hope that little girl coming from you Lawrence will enjoy the baby rack. I need to get building on it soon so she can come home! Thank god for metal clips...No more soldering! *chants* Down with soldering!

Anyway! Thanks for the compliments, I am very proud of that thing, the behemoth that it is.

Now it's time to fill it up :clap:

Yes well, I'll have one space left after Sullivan comes home. But then there's the baby rack! I have tons of room to fill that puppy up :)