Eurobracing?

[Balz3352]

Anyone have any experience Eurobracing? My 210 has a huge!! Center brace that will get in the way of the lights trying to come up with ideas to fix this. Luke.Fraizer was up yesterday helping me wire my basement panel and suggested Eurobracing.

What do you guys think?

 

[Craigar]

You could weld a angle iron frame and put single cross brace in it

 

[Balz3352]

You could weld a angle iron frame and put single cross brace in it

That's a really good idea. Ill have to talk to ken

 

[Balz3352]

How tight to the glass do you think it would have to be?

 

[Craigar]

As close as possible then put foam for cushion

 

[Balz3352]

As close as possible then put foam for cushion

Just thinking of design hard to do since would need powder coating also which would add some thickness to it also. What kind of foam would you use?

 

[Craigar]

Just 1/8 stick side

 

[Balz3352]

So tank is 72x24 top design 72 1/8 x 24 1/8 or 72 1/4 x 24 1/4

 

[Craigar]

What's the trim measure exactly

 

[Balz3352]

I.d. 72 1/8x 24 1/8
Inside diameter of trim that is

 

[Craigar]

I would give a 1/8 bigger than trim

 

[Balz3352]

Ok

 

[Luke.Fraizer]

I didnt think about a metal one but that would be quite nice as well! You just have to get rid of that massive center!

 

[Balz3352]

Reached out to the national forum for this one and pretty much everyone said don't touch it. So I dont think im going to. Some had braces as such and they said more light got through than they expected. My plan is mixed reef so ill just do lower light zoas or lps and or open swimming space im the middle.

 

[Balz3352]

Ken also said the same thing and that it is a female dog to get out

 

[Maximilianairr]

I eurobraced my 40 breeder after i removed the rim and it still didn't help hold it.

 

[Maximilianairr]

my suggestion would to use a thick width all around and malke sure there is enough surface area to hold. my problem was the glass being too thin