Stand help

[piranhaman00]

Hello,

I made this stand purposely like this for sump space reasons. I am having second thoughts.

the tank is 49” long and the stand is 52” I used the @RocketEngineer model.

the tank will sit flush to the end on one side so on the other there is 3” to end, this leaves 1.5” off the end support beam, all 2x6.

I have 1.5” on plywood on top. The tank corners will be supported by the vertical beams but the one end horizontal trim will not be over the horizontal beam.

Is this a problem? The level marks where the end of the tank will be sitting. You can see it’s supported by one of the vertical support beams but the ends will not be. I was thinking the plywood on top will easily distribute the weight. Tank is 49x36x21 @redfishbluefish

Is this safe?

 

[piranhaman00]

Or would it be better to center the tank instead of having it flush on one side?

This would be at most 2” in from each side leaving 0.5” off the horizontal outside brace.

Hopefully this makes sense, horizontal braces being yellow in this lic

 

[Jeffcb]

I think you are good either way. Especially with 2x6s

 

[JoshH]

Totally safe and WAY overkill, I wouldn't bat an eye putting the tank which ever way you want

BTW, I think there's one screw left in the box ;Hilarious

 

[redfishbluefish]

That stand, with 2x6's and 1 1/2 inches of plywood would support a herd of elephants all standing in the middle of the stand.

 

[RocketEngineer]

Yup, will be just fine.

 

[JoshH]

That stand, with 2x6's and 1 1/2 inches of plywood would support a herd of elephants all standing in the middle of the stand.

With the tank on top of them;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious

 

[piranhaman00]

I think you are good either way. Especially with 2x6s

Totally safe and WAY overkill, I wouldn't bat an eye putting the tank which ever way you want

BTW, I think there's one screw left in the box ;Hilarious

That stand, with 2x6's and 1 1/2 inches of plywood would support a herd of elephants all standing in the middle of the stand.

Yup, will be just fine.

With the tank on top of them;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious

The flow chart of the pump will give you the pressure that the pump is designed for. Yoiu will have to convert head pressure to psi. feet head / 2.3 = psi

Thank you all for commenting