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I make cages out of plastic storage bins. I am housing my uro in one and want to house my beardie in one. I am not sure how to attach the wire to the lid. In the smaller cages I have made I have used duct tape and hot glue, but that wire was more of a mesh type. The wire I am going to use from now on is going to have bigger holes, so I need a stronger way of attaching it. Any suggestions would be great.
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Heidi Kagarise
purpledragon777@hotmail.com

1.0.0 MALI UROMASTYX (Spike)
1.0.0 BEARDED DRAGON
0.1.0 LEOPARD GECKO
0.0.1 BALL PYTHON (Slick)
1.0.0 BUDGIE ('G')
2.2.0 BARN CATS
0.0.3 FISH
0.1.0 MINI REX RABBIT (Tu)

For my King's rubbermaid I used 1cm X 1cm steel mesh and using predrilled holes stiched it to the rubbermaid using a very high gauge wire.

Get a soldering iron and chisel tip, cut the screen an inch larger than the hole and every inch or so, dip the chisel tip into the screen and plastic to melt it together, then go and drag the chisel tip along it to seal it all the way around. If done correctly it should be like a knife into butter, and then poke at it to see if u missed a spot...

(Not sure who posted this earlier, but all credit goes to them)
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Coastal Carpet Python 0.1 (Lillith)
Albino Burm 0.1 (Kimba)
Columbian RedTail 0.1 (Squishy)
Kenyan Sand Boa 1.0 (Shai'hulud)
Common Snapping Turtle 1.1 (Sherman and Abrahms)
RES 1.0 (speedy)

>>Get a soldering iron and chisel tip, cut the screen an inch larger than the hole and every inch or so, dip the chisel tip into the screen and plastic to melt it together, then go and drag the chisel tip along it to seal it all the way around. If done correctly it should be like a knife into butter, and then poke at it to see if u missed a spot...
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>> (Not sure who posted this earlier, but all credit goes to them)
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>>Coastal Carpet Python 0.1 (Lillith)
>>Albino Burm 0.1 (Kimba)
>>Columbian RedTail 0.1 (Squishy)
>>Kenyan Sand Boa 1.0 (Shai'hulud)
>>Common Snapping Turtle 1.1 (Sherman and Abrahms)
>>RES 1.0 (speedy)

Hi. Thanks for the idea. I just happen to have a soldering iron, so I will try this idea. Thanks again.
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Heidi Kagarise
purpledragon777@hotmail.com

1.0.0 MALI UROMASTYX (Spike)
1.0.0 BEARDED DRAGON
0.1.0 LEOPARD GECKO
0.0.1 BALL PYTHON (Slick)
1.0.0 BUDGIE ('G')
2.2.0 BARN CATS
0.0.3 FISH
0.1.0 MINI REX RABBIT (Tu)

I use hot glue and rivets. The bond is incredibly strong. Strong enough that I have felt comfortable keeping venomous snakes in cages with screens attached this way.

You can see this in this picture.