KD006
Well-known Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2011
- Posts
- 149
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2011
- Messages
- 149
I have finaly accumulated all the bits to finish my C&C cage, and am working out how to do the coro and fleece pad('s).
Right now I have enough fleece for two liners and a matress pad I think enough to make one liner. I called half a dozen U-haul places and none of them have the blue pads and are telling me will be about 3 weeks before they get in any stock.
Cage is cubes 28 x 56 inches (2 x 4) and I had the sign shop cut a sheet to 38 x 66 so I could have 5" sides, now this is looking like it would be too high so I am thinking of cutting 2" off long and short sides so it will be 4" (at least I got it oversized so I have the option, hard to stretch it if it was short) So the question is should I do 3" or 4" sides as I may return to aspen some time in the future?
On the fleece some people have said to make it so it goes up and over the coroplast, humm how is that done with 60" material with out a lot of waste cutoff material? So I was thinking of makeing a flat liner and make a pocket across the underside where I could use one of the cutoff parts of the 4x8' sheet as streachers on the long length to keep the fleece laying flat in the bottom. That would give a 5" wide piece longways front and back to keep the pad from bunching up.
I had been looking for my utility knife since yesterday afternoon and just found it so I may as well put some thought into this before cutting anything, the old measure twice / cut once theory.
So anyones thoughts on coroplast side hight and my idea on keeping the fleece in place ( of course I could also add some velcro to the coroplast and fleece as an alternative)
Right now I have enough fleece for two liners and a matress pad I think enough to make one liner. I called half a dozen U-haul places and none of them have the blue pads and are telling me will be about 3 weeks before they get in any stock.
Cage is cubes 28 x 56 inches (2 x 4) and I had the sign shop cut a sheet to 38 x 66 so I could have 5" sides, now this is looking like it would be too high so I am thinking of cutting 2" off long and short sides so it will be 4" (at least I got it oversized so I have the option, hard to stretch it if it was short) So the question is should I do 3" or 4" sides as I may return to aspen some time in the future?
On the fleece some people have said to make it so it goes up and over the coroplast, humm how is that done with 60" material with out a lot of waste cutoff material? So I was thinking of makeing a flat liner and make a pocket across the underside where I could use one of the cutoff parts of the 4x8' sheet as streachers on the long length to keep the fleece laying flat in the bottom. That would give a 5" wide piece longways front and back to keep the pad from bunching up.
I had been looking for my utility knife since yesterday afternoon and just found it so I may as well put some thought into this before cutting anything, the old measure twice / cut once theory.
So anyones thoughts on coroplast side hight and my idea on keeping the fleece in place ( of course I could also add some velcro to the coroplast and fleece as an alternative)
