Anyone use leveling legs?

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My coworker and I build this steel stand over the weekend

48"x30"x34"tall

It's 1 1/2" square tubing 14g

Will hold up a 112g tank rounding up that's 1000 pounds plus sump lights ect..

Should I add more braces maybe at the corners and a vertical back leg?

And my main question. Will adding steel leveling legs one at each corner do any harm? My aquarium will be rimless so I don't want any lean..
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When I built my stand, I saw lots of posts talking about making sure you had anti-racking welded on. Yes, I know we dont live in an earthquake zone (unless there is fracking near you!) but the more conclusive argument I saw was the situation where you lean on it, and the stand just goes caput. (Or you are leaning over it and slip, putting lateral forces into play and causing it to collapse). So it wouldnt hurt to add a couple of those. (Some people claim that when they skin their stand, that provides the anti-racking, but I think that would depend on how they skin it)

For the leveling feet, someone said you had to worry about the weight stripping out the thread - but if you have decent ones and are not messing with them often, Im sure they are fine. You could probably find some off of a server cabinet and tack those on and be good to go. Or Im sure someone on ebay is selling some heavy duty ones.
 
@C4rN4gE wrote:
When I built my stand said:
I was thinking some of these same things. What about using the legs to level and then adding a shim afterwards as just a precaution. A small shift in a faulty leg/weld could be disastrous.
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Needs to be on concrete if you are going to add leveling legs, an easier way is to just get some shims.

+1 add some triangle braces to prevent racking just 8 pieces will work in the back 4 corners.
 
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I think if I add anti racking here it should do the trick by doing it at the top it allows zero motion at the bottom going to add next weekend
 
adding the diagonals will be nice. As far as the leveling legs what I have done is put steel washers under the edge that needs to be raised. I don't trust any of the threaded leveling legs. Also I would put a piece of 3/4" plywood between the steel stand and the tank. This way you will have a solid section that is supporting the tank.

You can see what I did on mine here

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My plan was for 6 legs

4 at the corners and 2 in center of the back bottom and front bottom

I would do shims in any case. But the problem is that where the. Tank is going has more of a lean that normal

For example my Bc29 is there now and I had to epoxy the overflow to raise the water level up because the water level in the front was 1/2" below the trim
 
I have 6 leveling legs on my metal stand I think each leg is rated up for 1500 lbs of force

You don't need triangle pieces for strength if that's is your plan

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150 gallons. 48"L x 30 W x 24" H


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if you're going to face the stand with wood you wont need triangles, but if you're not, then I'd add one on one side and the back at a minimum.
 
You should put in diagonals to stop it from coming forward too, it looks lie you are only putting the 4 on you should do 8 you have the side to side motion covered but the back to front should have them on as well.
 
@SGT_York wrote:
You should put in diagonals to stop it from coming forward too said:
Motion from what? With the weight of the tank plus water nothing will be tipping the tank over

Depending on how thick of steel, the stand should be pretty sturdy with the bars going in the middle.


Here is pic of my stand for a 48@" L x 30 " W x 24" H tank and I can tell you the stand is not budging once tank is up and running

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