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Post by mar on Dec 7, 2003 18:57:28 GMT -8
Well I finally got a hold of a digital camera when at my mom's for thanks giving and I finished my iguana's condo with the use of her sewing room (hense the ugly background) It is 45" along the long sides at the base and 72" tall. Heat, humidity, and portibility are no longer problems at all, and the CHE now has a cage around it.    |
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Post by dominick on Dec 7, 2003 19:58:25 GMT -8
Hi MAR-
Very nice job you've done. Looks great.
I was wondering what the walls were made of. Is it cloth or plastic? I can't decide from the pics. Looks like a nice heavy gauge plastic in some spot, but fabric in others.
I like the hex design. Gives a lot of room in a small amount of space.
And the Ig sure looks happy. How's he handling it?
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 7, 2003 22:56:09 GMT -8
Cool, Mar. I really like how you set the food and water containers into the platform.
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Post by mar on Dec 8, 2003 11:43:30 GMT -8
Materials:
The blue part of the wall is heavy nylon
The rest of the wall is cotton cloth
The door and upper window are clear heavy gage plastic "cloth" -- can't remember what Jo-Ann's called it
The top and bottom are the opaque version of the heavy plastic "cloth"
The frame is the original lizardcages.com big jungle gym predating Keith's idea to sell them over the net.
The rope ladders are a combination of PVC and 2x4 -- soon to be all PVC -- with non-slip rug netting strung between the rungs.
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Post by Yoda on Dec 8, 2003 14:51:29 GMT -8
;D I like it ....  YUP Ilike it Allot ..... ;D Great Job.... James and Yoda |
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 8, 2003 19:21:12 GMT -8
Did you sew the panels? How long did it take you, and did you use an industrial machine? The more I look at this, the more WORK I see!  |
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Post by mar on Dec 9, 2003 10:04:55 GMT -8
Most of the time was spent figuring out how I was going to do this. I needed a cage that could fit in my car (a Saturn) with out taking up the whole car as I have to move a few times a year being a college student. I ended up with a cage that will fit in a large duffel bag, weighs less than 35 lbs, and only takes 1 hour to set up.
Total time at the sewing machine and cutting table was less than 20 hours.
It is not a set of panels for the wall rather a sleeve that slides over the top then most of the pipes slide into sleeves between the solid white fabric and the green check (every where that is green is a second layer of fabric.
The fabric is not very heavy at all so a normal sewing machine was more than enough -- I used my mom's Bernina that is about 5 years older than me. The only difficult part was keeping the clear plastic from clinging to the table top while passing through the sewing machine. In fact most of the fabric was scrap laying around.
Mark
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Post by Shaun on Dec 9, 2003 10:05:25 GMT -8
That looks awesome, you have inspired me!
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Post by mar on Dec 9, 2003 11:38:15 GMT -8
Well Shaun glad to have done that but a few tips --
The ladders are great, light versitile and provide many ways to be climbed -- my ig usually climbs up the bottom of the bottom ladder so he really hangs from it.
I originally used towels for the ladder covers and it was a BAD idea -- they pull out and frey way too much so I have to trim them nearly daily.
If you try to do the whole cage as I have, have the frame near by rather than working from a list of dimensions. I am an engineering major that works in a CAD lab over the summers and my three pages of diagrams and dimensions were only just enough.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 9, 2003 12:25:51 GMT -8
Mar...
The info you gave in your last two posts has increased my appreciation for your enclosure by about 100%! I can't believe that you can fit that entire thing in a duffel bag!
Way to go! I think you deserve an ingenuity award! ;D
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Post by Shaun on Dec 11, 2003 12:46:30 GMT -8
So MAR, where did you get those different cloths for the cage? Up until now Orko's main source of humidity was from daily baths and the ocasional spray from a bottle. His current cage is screen and I'd prefer to get something that retains humidity.
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Post by mar on Dec 11, 2003 18:10:37 GMT -8
All of the fabric came from a fabric \ craft store at some time. The plastic was over near the weird fabrics -- the poly "fur", plastic lined felt like for picnic table cloths, vinyl "leather", junk like that. The white is just cheap cotton backing material The rest -- blue nylon and green strips -- was sold as scraps on a table in the middle of the store. I did find a source for nylon netting but have not ordered any yet because it is winter here and I need to trap heat and humidity. www.ahh.biz/fabric_catagories/mesh_and_netting.htmLooking through there they have everything I would have needed but, again, I have not ordered from them. |
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