cutting melamine?

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Originally Posted by stangs13

What? I dont understand? YOu got some splainin to do.;) :D But cerealy.

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drawl 2 lines 4" apart get a router and set it to 1/4" deep and remove the meterial between the lines. this way the flex watt sits in a recess.

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Originally Posted by jcaustralia

drawl 2 lines 4" apart get a router and set it to 1/4" deep and remove the meterial between the lines. this way the flex watt sits in a recess.

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I know how to do it ...silly.;)

But why do you do it?

so it don't get caught up sliding the tubs in and out, i don't do it with mel because it weakens the material taking that white covering off.

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Originally Posted by jcaustralia

so it don't get caught up sliding the tubs in and out, i don't do it with mel because it weakens the material taking that white covering off.

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Oh alright. What does it have to do with the heat?

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Oh alright. What does it have to do with the heat?

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that ed will have to answer.

Heres a pic. of one of my older mela. racks. I designed it to use the rubbermaid sweater box turned sideways. more surface area for heat and you also can use 2- med. size rubbermaid boxes in place of the sweater box ,when you have lots of hatchlings to deal with. these mela. racks hold the heat real well but are ball busters to move around. :) https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...mela.rack2.JPG

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racks hold the heat real well but are ball busters to move around

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you got that right. definitly do not want them on a weak floor. but i add casters for ease of cleaning/behind/moving.

Stangs, the reason that you need a 4" routed groove is to distribute the heat more evenly, and some people think that flex watt fires are caused by no air gap between the heat tape and the tub. and if you are going to show a rack, please make sure there is a mojave or other cool morph in the pic. :) https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../mela.rack.JPG

that stuff don't burn like wood does, that white covering and the compressed material is not fire risistant but pretty dang hard to get going. but i cam see why people would be a little worried.

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if you are going to show a rack, please make sure there is a mojave or other cool morph in the pic.

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was that directed to me ed?, if so i will have you know in that rack was water pythons, blood pythons, sawu pythons, ringed pythons, macklott pythons, and in the bottom was olive pythons. not a mojave or spiders but pretty dang neet either way, lol, i took theat pic about a year ago when i was breeding them.