OT: Record Racks

[Panomaniac]

Cool use of the wire rack. I've used those and like your addition of the wood.

Think it will take the weight of all that vinyl?

[Cal Weldon]

Nice job Steve.

[gearfreak]

Nice presentation!
I've used them, with pieces of 'dog cage grid' the thick wire from a discarded dog cage - easiest to cut with bolt-cutters fwiw. Secure with nye-ties. Of course it doesn't look as pretty as wood... but you can also angle the grid to allow some lean, and create sub-divisions within a shelf with them as needed.

I used to wait to buy them when they went on sale @ Tar-jay, typically for @ ~$30 /set for their largest ones. I think I've seen them comperable to that normally elsewhere since, but have not been in the market for a while.

They can also be modded fairly easily to be a rack unit - if you have extra rack rails laying about. The old 'studio' was one complete wall including the improvised rack unit approach - about 15ft long. With multiple sets, you can also get 1.5x the width out of each pair of units, by sharing of the supports - but you have to design for it first, as making changes after the fact requires complete tear down and rebuild of course.

I recommend a rubber mallet, or (probably better, but don't have one) a dead blow hammer for putting them together securely/disassy. The rubber mallet can/will bounce back on you of course. A pair of vice-grips can help to stabilize the position of the shims as needed (but you may want to pad w/cardboard lest they marr the support).


Also note that the thread on the little plastic feet used for these is typically a standard 1/4" SAE thread, so you can make use of the foot anchor inserts (bottom of pole) to either mount them (e.g. on a dolly, securely, using the feet or proper similar bolts) ...or insert casters which utilize the same thread - use of the casters is iffy though, as if they are too tall, with use, they will cause the anchor to pop out... leaving you with a several hundred pound leaning tower of vinyl - and no way to get the caster back on without risking catastrophe. If attempting that again, I'd drill then reinforce/stabilize the foot insert with 3 or 4 short sheet-metal screws/similar first (before assy of the shelves).

(Home depot carries the casters - spec'd/packaged for use on rolling tool benches or some such. Harbor Freight also typically has a selection)

Think it will take the weight of all that vinyl?

The shelves IIRC, are generally rated @ 300lbs per shelf on the black painted Chinese made ones... so I think they suffice on that spec, but check your own box to be sure. US made (IIRC) 'Metro' ones ($$$) should have higher ratings and generally stouter construction - and you should also be able to buy actual Metro spec'd casters for use with them.