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I want to build a rack for all of my snakes (except my vine snake) with like the sterlite 3a28 I think, it is a 31 quart. A bluish hint to it. I think I am going to use hollow core doors for the sides of it. And cut melamine sheets to fit it for the shelves. It will hold two of the sterlites per shelf and the top part will hold shoe boxes probably. I will predrill the holes in the hollow core door and the melamine sheets.I will start with a kick stop space not a sheet there though. I will heat it from the back and use rope light the christmas lights and they will go on sale soon. I will also put dividers between the two sterlites per shelf. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks Josh.
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thanks Josh

0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice (has mites how do I get rid of them prevent a mite fast answers before I have a collection of mite infested animals)
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.1.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

>>I think I am going to use hollow core doors for the sides of it. And cut melamine sheets to fit it for the shelves.

A hollow-core door won't properly support a melamine shelf, IMO. If anything I'd do it the other way around - hollow core doors for the shelves and melamine for the sides. I did this for my HC door rack and it has worked great.

I can't cut the hollow core door though. I am going to use washers on it to spread the weight would that help?
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thanks Josh

0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice (has mites how do I get rid of them prevent a mite fast answers before I have a collection of mite infested animals)
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.1.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

I don't understand what you mean by using washers to distribute weight.

I mean that I thought what you were saying is that the hollow doors would not be able to hole the weight on a screw head. I said I am going to spread the weight of the screw head with a washer or one of those metal circles with a hole for the screw to spread the weight to keep it from popping through.
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thanks Josh

0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice (has mites how do I get rid of them prevent a mite fast answers before I have a collection of mite infested animals)
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.1.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

The problem is that you'll still be tightening the two surface panels of the door together as you screw in the melamine shelf.

I think you'd be better off gluing some sort of cleat onto the HC door and attaching the melamine shelf to that.