Don't Buy Cheap Shelves

[Al Smith]

Well,north western Ohio is heavy into the German heritage with the small towns having October fests.Hamler Ohio is the big one.They deliver the beer by semi load.

Ah yes,the topic.It doesn't take that much to build sturdy shelves from material that doesn't come apart like a dollar watch.

 

[oldsaw]

Really too painful to look at. I've got the lighter duty version of Als shelves. Went to a big box lumber yard (can't remember which, they all run together now) and got a couple of sheets of 1/2" plywood. Cut them widthwise into 16" sections, bought 8 2x4x6' and some 8' 1x6s.

I lined up the 2x4s and plowed the router 1/2" deep through where I wanted the shelves, glued, screwed, ripped the 1x into 3 strips and used them to reinforce the shelf edges. I ended up with shelves that were strong, light, easy to build. I built 4 more the next weekend.

Mark

 

[Al Smith]

That picture of the shelving is in a 12 by 20 foot shed.I think I had about 50 or 60 bucks and a couple hours of labor in them ,no big deal.

My shop which is 60 by 70 has industrial pallet racking along a portion of one wall.I can stack v8 engines on that stuff.

 

[Gravely Grinch]

I was REALLY lucky with the gas cyls, I had no way of knowing they would be subject to an avalanche of magnesium. My 75/25 welding gas bottle broke the low side gauge, that's about it. The shelves were `sposed to be rated at 150 lbs per shelf and I had 4 saws per, heaviest saws on the bottom. That's ~1/2 what they were "rated" for. I had 3 saws apart, screws etc in open boxes which I ended up sweeping up. Gonna be fun figuring out which parts went where. I managed to scratch up 3 really clean saws, an XL1 Homey, 041 and 011 Stihl. Broke the plastic on an 025 I'm building for my Dad but that was about the worst of it. Magnesium bounces better than plastic.

The 08 was on a lower shelf and the Mac 15 was on the floor in front of the shelf, they both survived unscathed. I would have been *really* POd if either of those saws got damaged.

First order of business will be properly securing my gas cylinders. Next I'll get off of my lazy azz and fabricate angle iron shelf brackets that I can lag to the concrete wall. Lesson learned, this won't happen again.

 

[Tzed250]

Sure hope you didn't scratch that nice looking MAC15!!!

The weight of the Mac 15 is what brought it down...

 

[2000ssm6]

Dangggggg, I bet that made one hell of a racket. They even cut your rear wagon tire

 

[SWI Don]

For wall mount shelves, I like the John Sterling Fastmount system. Rubbermaid has one almost like them. I have loaded the sh++:taped: out of them - using one of the shelves for an Iron rack with a lot of flat bar on it so it packs tight. Get the heavy duty brackets with the brace I think they are good to 300 lbs / bracket.

Get your cylinders capped or secured.

Be safe

Don