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Here it is the final product I managed to make the thing in the end - seems very very strong

Hi There Thanks for the post and the welcome. ! The I-beam will be made of steel. They will rest on TOP of the vertical plates and the welded 'lips'. They will not be fixed in any way - they must move. They will overlap on the far side of the plates by 1cm. Fixing them introduces a lateral...

Concrete floor Hi - Thanks for the advice. The floor is solid concrete. The walls are supporting walls that are brick. It's a new Swiss building build like only the Swiss build..... I agree that two is a minimum. One would be, er, unstable :) Anyone know what the bending strain on a 7cm steel...

Hi All - I need some advice on a tank stand I have build and am about to put a 1 metric tonne tank on it .... So I have some trepidation here. Basically I have taken a 196cm (6 foot three inches) wide wardrobe out of an alcove. On each end is a thick brick wall. On each wall I have bolted a...