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Upscale
at Sat Mar 31 01:40:01 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Upscale ]
Here’s the latest project/experiment. Further description of how the door works in my post on advice on cutting acrylic below. This cage is 2’ x 2’ by 4’ long. The floor is 2 x 4 foot plywood, the framing is 1.5 x .75 furring strip. The top, sides and back are three sixteenths pegboard. Every seam is glued or liquid nailed, the whole thing was shot together with an air powered nail gun. It took about three hours to do it all. I bought enough stuff to build two, for about two hundred dollars. The gallon of Dryloc was about $21.00, the acrylic was almost $40.00 each. It was very easy to assemble, the Drylock fumes were pretty bad painting the inside. That stuff is very gritty, I would rather find an epoxy paint that was smooth, but it will work, I guess. The cage is pretty huge compared to a sweater box!
The front door is completely removable. No hinges, no swinging around, just take it completely out and set aside. It is a bit wobbly when taken out because it is pretty big with no frame of any kind, just two knobs to grab it and move it. We’ll see how this works out when I put something in it on Monday, after a good drying time. I am going to install a thumb screw thingy on each side in the center so the snake can’t flex the acrylic, just in case. I’ll post a pic with a happy snake in it all set up in a few days.
front door on unpainted
Another view 
This is a close up of the bottom groove that the acrylic sets into. It shows the gritty texture of the Dryloc paint, the stick on tile floor. 
Door shown out, leaning against cage 
Here it is, basically completed. Door set in place.
It is quite easy to get in and out. 
Thanks to all for your ideas and sharing.
Good weekend for building something!
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 Pegboard cage details - Upscale, Sat Mar 31 01:40:01 2007
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