More earned wisdom

[Lucille]

I finished the nine beautiful acrylic cages I have been making today. I will move the critters in this afternoon, after I am sure that all traces of the acrylic glue are dissipated. They are beautiful, however, in making them I have learned a few points I would like to pass on:

Weld-on 16 is an incredibly powerful glue made for bonding acrylic. It does that VERY well. However, it does not bond to ordinary plastic. I had to change my plans and use fasteners for part of the hinges because of that.

Even expensive 3/8" acrylic sheet bows slightly. This cause problems in the lower two doors closing correctly (they are stacked 3 high).

Making cages is not a lark. I am pleased with the way they look, but they took much more time than I anticipated.

I have received lots of good advice, and by far the best website with specific concrete instructions is the Clay Davenport site:
http://www.arbreptiles.com/cages/tips.shtml

[Sasheena]

pictures! I wanna see pictures! :)

How much did they cost to make?

Thanks for sharing!

[Karen Hulvey]

Me too, I want to see pictures. I'm making a simple rack system myself after I saw one posted on here about a month or so ago.

Karen

[Lucille]

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/246/sort/1/cat/505/page/1

Here is a pic. The new cages are stacked on the bottom left.
I just now got them in place, so do not have all the accessories in. Nine cages using 3/8" acrylic cost about $700 in materials so they were not cheap, but the pic does not do them justice, they are just show off gorgeous (if I do say so myself) and extremely sturdy.

The other side of the room contains a few more birds and snakes and my huge beautiful solid mahogany desk, found for $50 and refinished.

The room will be finished in a few days and will be a wonderful comfortable haven for me and the critters. :D

[TooManyBurmese]

Lucille I am so happy for you! Could you post better pictures though? I wanna see how they go together. Now that I know it's possible to make my own acrylic cages I will be starting to make some!!

[Sasheena]

One thing I love about the new photogallery, is that it contains the exact link you need to use to post on a message! I took the liberty, Lucille, of grabbing that link... here's Lucille's new cages... for those who aren't big on clicking links:

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/photopost/data//505/9283acryliccages-med.JPG

[Lucille]

Thank you Sasheena. I have to admit it was the Teen who snapped the photos, when I can slow him down long enough to get a few more I will post them!