Re: 6x2x3 enclosure build progression
Looking great. Your BP is gonna love her new home. Your making good time too at under a month so far and the hardest part is done. Now the electronics go pretty quick if a bit pricey. Good job. And that car looks cool too.
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Looking great. Your BP is gonna love her new home. Your making good time too at under a month so far and the hardest part is done. Now the electronics go pretty quick if a bit pricey. Good job. And that car looks cool too.
Thanks! Yeah, I've already done the math minus sales tax and it's going to take a few paychecks to get all the elements purchased. I'm going to need more thermostats as well, and I refuse to use the cheap Amazon ones on principle, so more Herpstats it is. So that, plus the fixtures and bulb guards, plant lights, and UVB fixture/bulb adds up to a pretty penny.
Haha yeah, that's his old '64 Ford Galaxie that he's basically built from scratch; I guess I come by the DIY gene honest. It's his pride and joy.
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How do you measure for the glass so you know how big it should be to slide in properly?
The instructions on this particular track told me to measure the space where the track would be seated and subtract 7/16 from that measurement. So in this case, my "window" minus the track was 24 inches, so I subtracted 7/16 and got 23 9/16 for the height. I'm not sure if this is standard for all door tracks or just my track.
Since I wanted an inch of overlap of the glass for the door lock, I had to measure the width of the window (64 inches), divide in half (32 inches) and then add 1/2 inch (32 1/2).
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Any updates?
Yep! I have all the lighting and heating equipment, minus thermostats and the radiant heat panel Mazikeen's currently using, purchased and installed. I also bought a branch that I'd have to mount, but should be a pretty awesome basking area. No pictures, though.
One minor setback -- my dad tripped and fell against the door tracks, which caused one of them to pop off. I'll have to silicone it back on at some point, when the risk of people breaking it again is a little less likely.
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Awesome. Sounds like you are almost there. Look forward to seeing the finished product. Sorry about your dad tripping hope he made it out intact. When my daughter went from the crib to a "big girl toddler bed" I bought one with a canopy and my mother in law feel into it as my daughter was showing it off before she got to sleep in it even once. I spent about 2 hours with glue, PVC and zip ties fixing it. Hopefully your repair goes a bit easier.
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Finally got this big thing in the house and put the door tracks back on. Ive since routed all the wires so they can't be used for climbing. Next we start setting things up inside. I have branches sitting out in the garage until I can get hydroballs and dirt in here. We on our way at last.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ba16635f25.jpg
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Re: 6x2x3 enclosure build progression
It's coming along good. Are those canister lights?
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It's coming along good. Are those canister lights?
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They're light guards. Day heat will be low watt halogens and night heat will be a radient heat panel. I'm not sure yet if all four will be needed year round (definitely during winter), but I figured it'd probably be best to have them installed if I need them rather than the other way around.
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