My weird egg crate top

The more I look at it the more I want one!

 

excellent job triplemom. well fitted and put together. kinda shocked you didnt find blue eggcrate tho. but ill give you some k anyways. lol

 

nice. You had some patience with it.. cutting egg-crate is a daunting task for some reason to me..

 

Thanks for the nice comments!

It's not bad. When I turn off the lights, I turn on the fuge light and slide on the top.

Don't think I didn't look! I guess blue egg crate isn't in high demand...

More than daunting - it's a pain in the butt! I actually played around with several types of pliers/wire cutters until I found one that cut easily and gave a fairly clean edge.

 

I have to ask, what kind of pliers were they? I would love to know anything that will keep little plastic pieces from flying about the room when working on them..

 

I was trying to find my pliers to describe them, but I can't find them....must be the old age thing....

Anyway, I first tried some long-nosed wire cutter thingies (do pliers have noses?) and that was a disaster - plastic flying everywhere. I finally dug around the tool box and found something that looked liked this. The shorter "nose" made it much easier to maneuver through the egg crate and I was able to cut fairly cleanly with these pliers.



All tools to me fall in a few categories - hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, saws, and thingies (which is everything else).

 

What a coincidence! I just did this for my bow front Sunday..my lionfish jumped out Saturday..i think a crab pinched his butt while he was sleepin and spooked him..got him back in in time though!..i just stuck with the plain egg crate though lol good job!

 

Lucky you on saving him! It's especially fun making these things for a bowfront - makes me appreciate squares, and rectangles....

 

Same pliers I use too. I use ones like this to cut stupid super huge frag discs too.

 

Lucky is right! I was standing right next to the tank making my bed and hear this splash right behind me..then a thunk..

I also appreciate built in overflows..built in returns..and hanging lights! It's like a puzzle getting the top back on lol