Carl Beckett
05-11-2010, 8:14 AM
Hi all,
I need to get my sheet goods organized - quite the variation in materials/purpose, from home projects (sheathing/drywall/formica) to woodworking/cabinet sheets (hardwood veneers).
My shop isnt huge, and one trick is finding a way to store these while still making them accessible, including the smaller pieces that can get lost behind the others if just leaned/stacked against a wall. Putting them horizontally in an overhead seems even harder to know what is there and get them up/down. A pully system?? (must be able to take the weight!) Or a hinged overhead that can be swung down to access, and then swung back up for storage??
Has anyone built/used a rack that stores sheets on one side, and has a track for your circ saw/cutoff on the other side? Something like this seems like it would be pretty handy to get the sheets down to a manageable size, and also to store (put it on wheels so it can be moved).
Thoughts? Plans? (I have seen some various plans around so know some of you have done this) Specific features that you would do again, or any that you would NOT do? Do you use the cutoff capability to cut to finished dimension? Is this sufficiently accurate? Should I incorporate a guide for my existing circ saw (how about my battery powered one? - its light and easy to handle), or should I incorporate a commercial guide saw?
Does it take up too much space? Where do you park it in your shop? Move it around? Again, I dont have a ton of space (noting that 'ton' is a unit of measure of 'space')
Or, should I just go spend a ton of $$ and upgrade to a sliding table saw? (threw this one in there to keep the discussion lively.....) :p Doesnt solve the storage issue but would help with the cutting part.
Give me some tried and proven ideas, with some more creative ones sprinkled in!
I need to get my sheet goods organized - quite the variation in materials/purpose, from home projects (sheathing/drywall/formica) to woodworking/cabinet sheets (hardwood veneers).
My shop isnt huge, and one trick is finding a way to store these while still making them accessible, including the smaller pieces that can get lost behind the others if just leaned/stacked against a wall. Putting them horizontally in an overhead seems even harder to know what is there and get them up/down. A pully system?? (must be able to take the weight!) Or a hinged overhead that can be swung down to access, and then swung back up for storage??
Has anyone built/used a rack that stores sheets on one side, and has a track for your circ saw/cutoff on the other side? Something like this seems like it would be pretty handy to get the sheets down to a manageable size, and also to store (put it on wheels so it can be moved).
Thoughts? Plans? (I have seen some various plans around so know some of you have done this) Specific features that you would do again, or any that you would NOT do? Do you use the cutoff capability to cut to finished dimension? Is this sufficiently accurate? Should I incorporate a guide for my existing circ saw (how about my battery powered one? - its light and easy to handle), or should I incorporate a commercial guide saw?
Does it take up too much space? Where do you park it in your shop? Move it around? Again, I dont have a ton of space (noting that 'ton' is a unit of measure of 'space')
Or, should I just go spend a ton of $$ and upgrade to a sliding table saw? (threw this one in there to keep the discussion lively.....) :p Doesnt solve the storage issue but would help with the cutting part.
Give me some tried and proven ideas, with some more creative ones sprinkled in!