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Anyone have any bright ideas for getting this style of wheel to stay stood up please?! I need to make the bases heavier somehow but not sure how to
Small pet wheels
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Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
You can probably make it stable by fixing it to a fairly big piece of anything flat and rigid, like a bit of plywood or a thin piece of stainless steel, then your scatter your pets' bedding over that to hide it.
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But the base is plastic; if it was wood I guess you could just drill holes in the base and screw it to a bigger bit of wood, but how would you go about that with plastic without it cracking?
Sorry....as you can see DIY is not a strong point of mine ?
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Glue.
You can drill through thin plastic quite easily, if you want. An ordinary wood bit will work, but run the drill at a slow speed, so that hear from the friction doesn't melt the plastic.
But glue is probably the best way. If you try to fix it to a thin sheet of anything (wood, metal, plastic, whatever), you'd need to use a nut and bolt. It a pop rivet, but you need a special tool to set pop rivets.
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Cyanoacrylate I guess would be the best to use? It needs to be inert/not harmful if they ingest it and they're ferocious gnawers, but cyanoacrylate is what I use in the reef for frags
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
I think that would work ok.
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Thank you so much!!!!
adamntitch
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not any help can can i ask what they are are they lemmings
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They're Brandt's voles, Lasiopodomys brandtii.
Nasicus
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I used strong doublesided tape to stick the gerbils silent runner wheel to a heavy flat dish, did the job nicely!