miltonkl
Active Member
I'm setting up a new 75 gallon tank with a typical DIY stand. I'd spill water a lot more than I'd like to admit (mostly overflowing my RODI when filling containers 
so I'd like to put feet on the stand and raise it up (6-8 feet rated at 550 lbs each) off the ground so I can dry up those inevitable spills instead of it just soaking into my hardwood floors/the stand and I can also then run cabling and such under the stand as needed.
I'm not sure how to go about attaching them the best way and hoping some people here have some feedback/ideas.
These are the feet I have:
(Note, yes there are wheels, no the tank will never be moved on the wheels once it has water in it, the feet lower down and lift it off the wheels.)
They're meant to be attached with bolts from the top but that's not realistic with the common 2x4 frame of the DIY stand.
I can only think of two options, because I'm not familiar with doing this kind of thing.
1) Sink decking screws or cabinet screws up through the holes into the stand frame. As this a screw as these holes allow. This would be the easiest option, but I think this would effectively be putting all of that weight into the screws which could just shear off at some point and a foot could fall off leading to a disaster. Maybe I'm over thinking that though and it's not a realistic concern?
2) get a sheet of 3/4 ply and countersink holes in it then attach the feet with bolts through the ply then glue/screw that plywood to the bottom frame of the stand. This seems like the sturdier option to me, but I'm not sure how that load gets spread across the ply.
3) another method I'm not thinking of?
so I'd like to put feet on the stand and raise it up (6-8 feet rated at 550 lbs each) off the ground so I can dry up those inevitable spills instead of it just soaking into my hardwood floors/the stand and I can also then run cabling and such under the stand as needed. I'm not sure how to go about attaching them the best way and hoping some people here have some feedback/ideas.
These are the feet I have:
(Note, yes there are wheels, no the tank will never be moved on the wheels once it has water in it, the feet lower down and lift it off the wheels.)
They're meant to be attached with bolts from the top but that's not realistic with the common 2x4 frame of the DIY stand.
I can only think of two options, because I'm not familiar with doing this kind of thing.
1) Sink decking screws or cabinet screws up through the holes into the stand frame. As this a screw as these holes allow. This would be the easiest option, but I think this would effectively be putting all of that weight into the screws which could just shear off at some point and a foot could fall off leading to a disaster. Maybe I'm over thinking that though and it's not a realistic concern?
2) get a sheet of 3/4 ply and countersink holes in it then attach the feet with bolts through the ply then glue/screw that plywood to the bottom frame of the stand. This seems like the sturdier option to me, but I'm not sure how that load gets spread across the ply.
3) another method I'm not thinking of?
