Homemade rack guides?

Does anybody know of a good tutorial(s) that will show me how to build a decent rack system using supplies from hardware stores? I've been looking at some of the racks for sale online and its rediculous how simple they look, and yet they are so damned expensive.

If you don't know of a tutorial, but have built a rack yourself, please fill me in on how u did it. I'm willing to pay someone to write up a good tutorial if it comes down to that. It just seems so much for fun to build it yourself anyway.

A thread with a few good tutorials in it would make a great sticky for this forum ;)

Thanks,
Nick

Hi,


If you search there are actually quite a few links and tutorials on this very forum.:)


dr del

Search? But that requires effort. :P

Sorry for jumping the gun, things pop into my head and my impulse is to post on here.

I'll search and see what happens. Thanks del

Just so this thread isnt completely useless.. here are two rack guides ive found thus far. I'm thinkin im gonna build the cb-70.

http://www.baileyreptiles.com/cb70rack.html
http://www.reptilianprojects.com/ladderrack.html

If you don't use his plans, read through Clay's site. He is one of the best do-it-your-selfers I know of
http://www.arbreptiles.com/
http://www.arbreptiles.com/cages/tips.shtml

Thats where i got my plans for my racks. From clay's site. I built mine pretty much the same as his. Only the last few i made a little frame on the bottom and added wheels to them. Works great. If you do decide to do something like that. Make sure you get at least 1/8 in. space between the tub and the heat tape. Another thing is make sure you get your frames that the pegboard go on the right size. If to big then you will have to come up with some kind of spacers for the rails that the tubs slide on. If to small there will be all kinds of gaps and snakes will get out,and the tubs will stick real bad. Another thing i changed was i added a 1x2 down the center of the back. For a stopper for the tubs. Holds temps and humidity great. Also never had any snakes get out. The first one i made was 8 tubs high. All the ones after that i went to 7 tubs. Here is a pic of the first one i made. Seams like the more i build the better they get. This one isnt the squarest thing ever built but it works.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0_2690copy.jpg

Awesome thanks jake/ama. That's exactly what I was looking for. The cb-70 is a very nice design, but a little overkill for me being as I only ahve one BP right now (until i make this rack.. then ill get more).

Thanks a lot for the great info guys :)

Here is a large rack DIY I did for this site several months ago.


http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...large+rack+diy

Well, I was going to post, but you seem to have found and posted my DIY already. I did the CB-70 rack DIY and a couple others, mostly for the people on this site. I hope, even if you don't build that one, that it gave you some insight, or help in some form or fassion in aiding the building of your rack. I too, believe that building a rack is fun, and I have alot of pride in the racks that I built, as well as saving a bit of money that I usually spend on more snakes.

You already have some great DIY, but I'll throw mine into the mix as well. It calls for expanded PVC, but you can cut costs by using 3/8" plywood if you wanted to.

http://www.blueappleherps.com/page13/page14/page14.html (large download, sorry)

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...P1010028-2.jpg

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Originally Posted by blueapplepaste

You already have some great DIY, but I'll throw mine into the mix as well. It calls for expanded PVC, but you can cut costs by using 3/8" plywood if you wanted to.

http://www.blueappleherps.com/page13/page14/page14.html (large download, sorry)

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...P1010028-2.jpg

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Matt they look real nice i'm thinking of buliding my next rack and probably I'm gonna give yours a whirl!

Thanks.

here is a link to the rack i built:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=50959

it was fairly easy and cost less then $200 (not including tubs).

Awesome. Buncha DIY's here. Wasn't expecting so many great guides. The one Matt built seems to be the easiest and it's also pretty easy on the wallet.. and it looks rather nice as well. :)


I called my sisters bf yesterday and asked if he'd like to help me build it. He's one of those Mr fix-its who can build/fix just about anything. He said he would do it, so I'm pretty stoked. Even though I could do it myself, I know he'll improvise and come up with some cool new ideas for it. Now it's just a matter of keeping the cost at or around $100-150. I'm poor.

Anyway, thanks for all the great responses guys.

Nick

Dusty just made one using my plans: http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=53734

They used plywood instead of XPVC; total cost was $75 for 5 shelves not including tubs or heat. $150 would be very easy to do. Good luck!