This is what I have come up with and I am very pleased with the room I have created, well, found anyway. Oh, and due to the proximity of the OH door rail I was unable to incorporate a sheet goods storage area.
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This is what I have come up with and I am very pleased with the room I have created, well, found anyway. Oh, and due to the proximity of the OH door rail I was unable to incorporate a sheet goods storage area.
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Jack, that looks nice! Did you angle the back to support the material fully? It's hard to tell from the photo.
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Yes, Jim, the base is angled back to the wall and the plywood sheets are set at 90* to the base. The wood lays there very nicely. I have to pick up some rubber caps for the 3/4 pipe. The lower one is right at the Grandkids head level and the very first thing my wife picked up on. Grandma! This project has kicked off a shop wide re-org which I really needed to do. Eureka, I found the floor! I've uncovered a lot of material, gear, stuff that is good, but unused in the 5 yrs I've had the shop. It is on its way to the Re-store or the dump. You have to be a bit cold blooded in these things if you are to get anything done, but it still rankles me to throw good stuff out. I'm using some of the plywood off-cuts to make a couple "miscellaneous junk bins" that are set on a small pallet. Anything that does not have an immediate purpose or home goes in the bin. I can then get the pallet forks on the tractor to handle that load.
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Very nice design angling the base!
I hear you on the culling thing...I have a big hard time with that, despite my ramping up the start of some decluttering in anticipation of a potential down-size in a few years. I was proud of myself in the shop when I recently moved my shorts bin upstairs and actually threw out a bunch of material. LOL That was HARD with a capital HARD!
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As to that angled base. I had some 24" 2x6's that I ripped to provide a 1.5" lift at the wall. If I made the base angle greater I would have had to carry the wall support structure farther out onto the base forward to get the 90* I wanted. That would limit capacity and I did not want to gt to near the OH door rail. The lumber does lay well on it, but the safety rope is necessary as well. That way I don't worry every time I turn my back on it.
Mine is angled about 2 degrees.
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At about 5 feet is a stand-off "rail" that the boards rest against. The boards touch the rail (and the wall if they are 12' or more) which also holds the dividers.
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The dividers are just pieces of scrap with notches cut in them. My favorite lumber yard uses pretty much the same thing although theirs are made of steel tube.
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