chrisl

Nice work Ian and Dennis!

ianiwane

thanks Chris. Jeff will the ada cataloge be in with the new shipment? If I order the lily pipes will I get a new cataloge at the same time?

Gomer

What tank stand are you trying to clone?

The reason you don't see a line, is that after the top is glued/screwed down, the seams are puddied, sanded, primered and painted.

SUBORPHAN

i am trying to clone the cube garden 90 x 45. the one that has a thin strip in front above the doors.

rbittman

I have the stand for the 90x45x45 tank. What dimensions do you want? cm or inches?

Roxanne

SUBORPHAN

Roxanne thank you so much. in centimeters would be fine please.

ianiwane

yup, we used car bondo.

dennis

It also helps to use cherry or maple veneer on the edge of the MDF and then fill the veneer and the joint with Bondo. Also, you can buy white cream hardner for the bondo so you don't have the pink color. For these tanks it would not matter but using the white hardner, you can tint with anyline powders to make the Bondo any color you want. Useful for non-painted applications.

Try to limit your Bondo use though, as on flat curfaces, like the middle of a door panel, the bondo can make a shiny spot even with the best finish technique.

SUBORPHAN

i dont know if i am right or wrong but my plan is to spray the outside paint and varnish that are used for cars. that way i will be able to achieve a uniform shiny metallic finish. of course i am going to use the car paint after the gaps and holes in the unit have been filled with bondo, smoothed down and primed.

do you think that would be ok?

niko

Milalic and I made a 2 ft. ADA style stand using MDF and 2x4 pine wood for the center support.

We filled the screw holes and gaps with wood filler. Will that work fine with MDF or we should have used something else?

The stand is not painted yet. Is it ok to paint it with a paint roller? We plan to use primer under the paint.

MDF is pretty heavy. I bet that if someone with experience working with MDF can lift the original ADA stand and tell if it's veneered MDF or not.

Also it seems that what is call "ADA style" stand is not something uncommon and typical for ADA only. On some Japanese sites one can find stands that are very similar to ADA's. But I think that the ADA stand looks best because the height of the top front plate and the lines around the doors are balanced, unlike some of the other Japanese stands.

--Nikolay