Cure for Skewed Light Tube Shade (ducting pulling it off square)

DeMoNeye

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Been running a small grow in a 60x60cm tent with a "light tube" 400w lamp joined inline with the ducting...

It was always resting out of square with the tent as in the small space the attached ducting was always pulling it...

Bought some 1/2" aluminium angle and M3 nuts/bolts/washers on eBay and got some plastic pipe clamps (2mm bigger than pipe size) to loosley attach it to the frame - 3d printed £5. Angled bar is there to hold the frame rigid and square.

Still using the ratchet hangers to allow it to easily slide up and down.

You can also see the collar (olive green, white bolts) that I had 3d printed to allow me to access the bulb in the tube without having to untape/detach the ducting!

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DeMoNeye

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Next idea is to replace the shade with a single sheet of stucco aluminium 600x500mm that I will just gently curve over the entire width of the tent...
 
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