Quote Originally Posted by jclaiborne View Post
A dremel will not give you perfectly straight cuts like a machine will, and when building a rack or cage you want your cuts to be nice and straight so your seams will line up.




This is where I am at now. I am building lizard cages that allow for a deep substrate layer because there aren't any off the shelf cages like this. I bought 1 4x8 foot sheet of 1/4in XPVC and had it cut and it cost me around 138 bucks, turns out that it is way too flimsy and now I need to brace it with metal framing to get the structure to be sound, luckly I have a machine shop at my disposal, but because of needing the framing I am looking at about 300 bucks all said and done for a 4x2x2ft cage. That is only for materials that is not counting labor.


To build a rack you can use a basic table saw/skill saw, PVC cages are different specially with chemical welds.

But to say you cant without "Special machines" Someone doesnt seem very Mcguvery!