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Re: My First Custom Cage
Originally Posted by zeke
VERY NICE! door looks great, I see there was no cracking SWEET!... what kind of side mount glides did you use? I have some Accurides I picked up when I was building custom kitchens... Cage is lookin good. Nice lookin BP too, lucky fella.
Cheers
Side Mount Glides? You mean how'd I get the plexi and the wood to meet?
I just ran the cut pieces of wood through the table saw with the blade set to half inch
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Re: My First Custom Cage
Originally Posted by WakoNako
Side Mount Glides? You mean how'd I get the plexi and the wood to meet?
I just ran the cut pieces of wood through the table saw with the blade set to half inch
side mount glides are what you have on your drawer on the bottom.
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Re: My First Custom Cage
Originally Posted by zeke
side mount glides are what you have on your drawer on the bottom.
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Re: My First Custom Cage
Originally Posted by WakoNako
Oh. I don't know what type they are, they were just some short ones I had lying around.
Originally, they sit in a groove in the draw, I just adapted them to my needs. The only downside to them is to take the draw out I have to undo 6 screws.
But anyway, this is what y'all missed last night.
A spot of primer
And this is where I just left it tonight.
Installing the doors temporarily.
The right hand door sporting a new lip to ensure there are no gaps between the doors for the snake to take advantage of.
Both doors temporarily hinged and in place. Truthfully, the doors are a little off square, but this is my first enclosure. On my next one I'll pre-square everything before I'm permanently join it.
Installed the final layer of hardie. The tile with be glued to this.
Ventilation holes drilled in to the floor to stop a build up of heat. Do you think I should make them bigger?
Nice, freebies rock! you gotta take all the screws out? on the glides themself is there a little black piece of plastic, kinda like a switch? if so while holdin the draw and pulling a lil flip the plastic up or down depends on the kind and it shuold slide off the other half of the glide.. Cage is lookin great! what are the holes in the floor drilled for?
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Re: My First Custom Cage
My slides are like 15 years old, they didn't know what plastic was back then lol.
The holes are for excess heat from the flexwatt to escape and stop a dangerous buildup of heat.
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Re: My First Custom Cage
Originally Posted by WakoNako
My slides are like 15 years old, they didn't know what plastic was back then lol.
The holes are for excess heat from the flexwatt to escape and stop a dangerous buildup of heat.
LOL got ya.. are you using ceramic tiles or peal and sticks? I will be making 3 cages maybe 4, and was thinking of using ceramic tiles, but wasnt sure if the heat would get through the tile. Cage is looking good
Cheers
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Re: My First Custom Cage
I'm going to use ceramic tile. Apparently, heat transfers more effieciently than glass according to google. I figure I'll test it and if i dont think its adequate, ill get a 12"x12" piece of glass in place of that one tile over the uth
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Re: My First Custom Cage
looks like it is coming together really nicely, make sure you post pictures as soon as you are finished
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