sliding door questions

[Mrgbb]

hey everyone im planing on making a new enclosure for my soon to be ball python and i need to make sliding plexiglass doors for it if anyone has any ides on how i can do this that would be much appreciated! -Mike. H

[j_h_smith]

hey everyone im planing on making a new enclosure for my soon to be ball python and i need to make sliding plexiglass doors for it if anyone has any ides on how i can do this that would be much appreciated! -Mike. H

Are you talking about the plexiglass doors themselves, or are you talking about all of the hardware associated with the doors too?

Jim Smith

[martinarquero]

You can ether buy aluminum tracks for them or make them out of hard wood, like I did, and just buy the glass the size you need them, its very easy to do.

[771subliminal]

http://www.coldbloodedcages.com/Plas...lass-PT1-4.htm

[Mrgbb]

Are you talking about the plexiglass doors themselves, or are you talking about all of the hardware associated with the doors too?

Jim Smith

both.

[mechnut450]

I made mine with the table saw and ran mutlit passed for the front frame piece to make a groove track in which I set my metal track pieces (just a Ushaped metal stock from lowes) and then tapped the glass edges to prevent cutting myself and assemble bamm sliding doors that were completely in the cage frame . the only bad part ( possible is were hte 2 pieces of glass over hang since ther will still be an edge there. and the tracks do get filled with shavings 9 which start to grind the glass after a while) but they look nice and are stronger than plexie I had snake pop the plexie out a lot until I made a trimm piece to push the plexie tighter against the divider I had.