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jim_radley
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 Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:37 am Post subject: Wooden Vivs. |
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Has anyone made a viv using making plywood?
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Scott W
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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too much hard work for me, as you need to seal the wood properly afterwards. (got nowhere to paint them without gassing my animals with fumes).
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Sonny Hynes
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| My dad made one for me out of plywood but i don't know how he done it. (i believe it's plywood anyway) |
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Thimble
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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I personally use melamine (contiboard) it is much easier as you do not need to seal the whole thing after, you just have to use silicone sealant on the joints. This is what mose vivs are made out off by what I have seen.
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Dan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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I use wooden vivs. For smaller vivs i use contiboard but for the big ones i use OSB.
It's cheap enough not to worry about sealing it (about £12 for an 8x4 sheet) and is reasonably weather proof anyway, which means it can handle a fair amount of humidity for about a year before i would worry about it being too weak to be safe. I end up paying £150 a year for 5 vivs (i re-use glass and heating) which is a figure i can cope with.
This weekend just gone i made a replacement stack for some of my retics. The stack dimensions are 6x3x7.5 feet with each viv being the same length and depth but a height of 18 inches (giving me a stack of 5 vivs). The wood is 18mm thick and i use 2 inch screws to secure them together.
Each viv is strong enough to take my biggest girl who weighs 165lbs and the whole stack takes a grand total of around 350-400lbs worth of snakes. It doesn't creak or bend, and i will be happy using it for some time without fear of collapse. I could never achieve this with conti-board without some serious re-enforcing.
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Stuart
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Any chance of posting some pics of them Dan. |
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Dan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Aye, why not...
I think i still have some of the old stack aswell somewhere. I'll get some of this one now and post them up shortly.
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Stuart
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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 ok mate nice one |
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Dan
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