I got a rack now too.I finally finished it.
I followed Tim Bailey's (muddoc) rat rack design step by step! I had just slight changes as follows:
1.) I used 1/4" hardware cloth on the main section of screen because I am going to put ASF's there and the little ones can get through a 1/2". But, I kept the 1/2" screen on the food part.
2.) I put a separation between food and water for no apparent reason. I was thinking I can do some maintenance on the tubing without having to empty out the food but then I was thinking... how often would I really need to do that?
3.) I used the mixing tubs from Home Depot and it didn't say ODJOB on it. I had to reduce the distance between the screen to the guide rails to 3/4" because it was too far at 1".
4.) I used 1/2" drill screws to put the casters on the bottom because the darned things didn't come with screws.
5.) I used flex-tubing instead of PVC. It was too complicated to put the pvc stuff together, so I just chickened out and got the flex-tubing. So, I got 3/8" tubing going from the 5 gallon bucket to the T's that connect to 3/16" tubing that goes to the edstrom variflow valves.
6.) I used 11/16" paddle bit instead of 13/16" to drill the hole on the 5 gallon bucket to attach the connector because that's what it said on the 3/8" connector that I got from klubertanz.com.
I had 1 of the 1"x2"x8' left over and 1 of the 2"x2"x8'.
I put water in the bucket, turned on the valves and I got zero leaks first shot! Yeay!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, TIM BAILEY!
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