DIY Project home made lighting stand's hints & tips

[Themuleous]

Re: saintly's home made lighting stand

Nice work guys 🙂

Sam

 

[Lisa_Perry75]

Re: saintly's home made lighting stand

How did you get the bend in the pipe Dan?

 

[Joecoral]

Re: saintly's home made lighting stand

How did you get the bend in the pipe Dan?

I'm going to hazard a guess he used a pipe bender

 

[Mark Evans]

Re: saintly's home made lighting stand

i've changed the title folks 8)

 

[Dan Crawford]

Re: saintly's home made lighting stand

How did you get the bend in the pipe Dan?

My old mans a plumber so he did it for me using a pipe bender.

 

[Lisa_Perry75]

Re: dan's home made lighting stand

Cheers for letting us know, I thought it must've been something like that...

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Re: dan's home made lighting stand

One of these would do it.
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/lrg ... l&ts=49354

Mark, can I ask what was your line of thinking to make it such a hight? My first instinct would be to have it just high enough. But i wondered what your thoughts are?

 

[Joecoral]

Re: dan's home made lighting stand

One of these would do it.
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/lrg ... l&ts=49354

Isn't that identical to the one I linked to?

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Re: dan's home made lighting stand

Oh yeah, very similar, didnt see that. Sorry.

 

[Mark Evans]

Mark, can I ask what was your line of thinking to make it such a hight? My first instinct would be to have it just high enough. But i wondered what your thoughts are?

you may be aware, this stand carries my 60cm, which is only 36cm deep. I took this into consideration. firstly i've put 150w of MH lighting over a 60. I'm confident in my ability in growing plants, but not that confident.

this is where the height comes into play. until i get stable conditions within my newly set up tank and find out where the "sweet spot" is for the MH lamp, then I'll cut the vertical tubes to height. i don't want it to be too low and have to buy new supports in the future. MH lighting is new territory for me.

i've changed the title so it more a public post where anyone can add there points of view. 😀

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Nice one, makes perfect sense Mark.

 

[samc]

iv made a light stand for mine the other day with my pipe bender and have used copper and primed and painted it i might post a pic of it later if any1 is interested

oh and im a plumber so the bending is alright for me but if any1 wants a go i can tell you how. as if your using one piece you need to get the bends centre

 

[klay]

You can save yourself 30+ quid and use one of these to bend copper pipe http://www.screwfix.com/prods/12076/Han ... pring-22mm You would need to put a slower bend in though.

 

[Steve Smith]

I'm going to be putting together a very similar stand soon 🙂 Bought most of the bits, just need chrome tubing and some 15mm plastic tubing to complete the parts list.

I've stickied this as I think it's awesome

 

[sanj]

Doh! if i only saw this a couple of months ago. Although i did see Jason Baliban's DIY job which is what I used to show the metal worker what i wanted. Hmm... could have done it myself.

 

[stevec]

great idea thought i would add whilst i was looking for parts found you can buy flush elbows and things like these http://www.homeofchrome.co.uk/inc/sdetail/1171 if you dont like the plumbing elbow look

 

[gillo45]

Thanks guys I was with eddy and was just About to fork out on an ADA stand but you guys and this website is saving me ALOT of money cheers !

 

[Iain Sutherland]

reviving an old thread...

so i wanted to do this with 22mm chrome copper, went to the builders merchants and for 2 x 2m chrome pipe and 2 x 90 bends the bill was £86!!!! This is with a trade account discount!! Copper is crazy price now.
Had a second plan of 10mm steel rod bent to size, went to the ironmonger and bought it for £37, hung the halide only for it to bow in the middle which looked crappy...
So went with the naturalaquario.com 90cm at a cost of 80 euros 🙂

Think if you still want to DIY it then wardrobe rail is a possibility if you can get the bends figured out.... maybe this is what mark used originally????

 

[Stu Worrall]

thats a realy good price for the NA. let us know how it goes if it it gets here ok. I think the stainless one I had made was about 80 quid in the end but the fittings were made for earthquakes!

heres mine

http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=7816