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well i finaly got around to getting my scrap wood i was using for a make shift rack a few years back anywhos i got that to my new place took my handy ol hand heled circular saw made a fence so i could cut straight clamp everythgin down and got to cutting well all wood is cut then i made a phone call and luckily my buddy had a router its a lil umm ghetto for better words lol anywhos it got the job done and now have the shelfs cut sides cut and shelfs routed for heat tape. im goin in the mourning to get the heat tape and a few other things then i start putting humpty dumpty all back together again? wait no for the first time lol. anywhos my new scrap quarentine lil guy rack is almost done ill post pics of the terrible beast once its done

TOTAL COST
scrap wood i had left over from other things ($0 or whatever it was priced at when i got it lol)
screws($0 leftover from when i built my incubator)
tubs ($0 leftover from my incubator also lol ill be getting new containers for my incubator next year i didnt like these to much plus im changing the design for my incubator next year a lil also)
saw $0 laying round for years lol
saftey glasses $0 from my girls work lol
gas money to pick up the router and return it $10
heat tape and t-stat ??? ill know 2marrow roughly round $50

That is so crazy Tim cuz just 2 hours ago I wrote on paper the number of shelves and tops (16) I need as well as the four sides and the support pieces for the bottom shelf like Dave recommends but I hope mine turns out well and yours too btw. I will post some pics of my beast when it's said and done but money is holding me up then I have to get the iris cb110 tubs and flexwatt and herpstat 4 channel so I can keep some bci and rainbows in the same rack with the rainbows at the bottom of course and I need a low watt soldering iron so I have my plate full and I also need to get the rat rack together too. So many things so little money Tim lol
Bob

lol i hear ya there on the money issue thats why mine is only $50 lol roughly anywhos its only gonna hold 6 containers that are 14X14X7 but like i said its a temp quarentine rack or maybe turned into a out of baby rack one step up rack or somethign lol who knows only time will tell its true porpose in life lol.

kind of thermo are you using? A Ranco? I have a boaphile rack right now housing five 24 inch tubs but as soon as I build these two racks then that one will be my q-rack and I already have a helix on it so I'm set for racks for snakes until I have to build some baby tub racks but the rest of my caging will prolly be some 421T from Jeff though for my breeders
Bob

right now for my rep room/computer room/bedroom im usinf helix and rancos for my quarentine i picked up a el cheapo esu 1000 watt where you can set the temp works like a ranco but cheaper and only a temp thing

LOL, sounds like I've sparked a fire under more than one butt!!

Those support pieces above the bottom shelf are CRITICAL if you plan on putting the rack on wheels to distribute the load from the bottom shelf to the sides. If you're not going to have it on wheels (I really like mine on wheels) then the support pieces above the bottomn shelf are not needed. I cut mine out of left over scraps. With any job there are always leftover pieces.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

That's a great price to make a rack you're lucky you had all the things you needed just lying around.
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Tim

0.1 Colombian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Albino Motley Corn
1.0 Black cat

well it was a lil more concidering at one time i did pay for everythign lol

Sounds like a good job, most everything made with scraps you had laying around. How many slots?
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

concidering the material i had and space and tubs etc it hold 6 tubs that are 14X14X7 three shelf high but 2 tubs sit next to each other. its only a cheap temp Q rack and sooner or later might be turned into somehtign else like a upgrade for my baby keepers so they are not in shoeboxes lol

degfinitely need a periodic upgrade to new digs. Just spent part of yesterday and today shuffling animals around so the genesis babies could move up in tub size.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

well i have come tp the comclusion if i can do it anybody can lol this pic was before i stuck the back stoppers on (just a strip of melamine) anywhos still need to tpe in the heat tape and its done. but i really need a router and a table saw i think i could do ALOT better with those two things the router i used worked but yeah like i said its "ghetto" and just 2 other random thigns i have built with only a drill and a circular saw.
Q rack (when building this my girl goes OOHHH now i know what you guys are talking about in the forum when you say Q rack quarentine rack lol i was rollin.

That is one nice looking rack. And you did it with a circular saw and a not so nice router.....sweet!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

thats right a good old hand held circular saw and a majior POS router lol. now i want to get a good router and a table saw and just start building like crazy lol

Great job! Thanks for sharing the pics. I wish I were that
handy.

Ed

>>well i have come tp the comclusion if i can do it anybody can lol this pic was before i stuck the back stoppers on (just a strip of melamine) anywhos still need to tpe in the heat tape and its done. but i really need a router and a table saw i think i could do ALOT better with those two things the router i used worked but yeah like i said its "ghetto" and just 2 other random thigns i have built with only a drill and a circular saw.
>>Q rack (when building this my girl goes OOHHH now i know what you guys are talking about in the forum when you say Q rack quarentine rack lol i was rollin.
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that handy lol i am anythign but and far from theat. with alot of luck and a few oops that can be hiddin and a oh oh here n there i got it done but handy i am not. i seriously think since i did it ANYBODY can. me and handy are two words that really shouldnt be put together now dave and handy thats a whole diff story there like two peas in a pod lol

>>that handy lol i am anythign but and far from theat. with alot of luck and a few oops that can be hiddin and a oh oh here n there i got it done but handy i am not. i seriously think since i did it ANYBODY can. me and handy are two words that really shouldnt be put together now dave and handy thats a whole diff story there like two peas in a pod lol
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats