OT: Record Racks

GM · November 16th, 2010, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Mac

This rack can be built from between 100-200 dollars depending on aesthetic need.

Slick!

GM

**Altec Best** · November 16th, 2010, 04:34 PM

Nice Job Steve ! They look really nice! One other thing I like to do WRT vinyl LP's is to keep them in boxes.Plastic corrugated Boxes,no matter how clean ones home is vinyl is loaded with static.And therefore becomes a dust magnet ....

http://www.bagsunlimited.com/c-277-storage-boxes.aspx

I have since bought these boxes and I am quite pleased with them keeping the LP's cleaner and dust free as we all know how hard it is to listen to a crackling,popping,record.I also use the original Discwasher poly/rice-paper sleeves V.R.P. Valuable-Record-Protector

LP sleaves

Thanks Steve for some ideas ! :2thumbsup:

**Steve Mac** · November 16th, 2010, 06:55 PM

Thanks guys.
The shelves I'm pretty sure are rated for 250 lbs. but we'll see if some dividers are needed to prevent bowing. Gonna try it first without em...lazy guy I am.
The goal was to do it as cheaply as possible with the minimum amount of work.
...but did not want something that looked like it fell off the back of a truck...though I hear that's the latest fashion.

The records I'm putting here are pretty cool...they were my Dad's collection and he acquired a nice amount of interesting LPs around the late 50s/early 60s time frame which is just an awesome period of music...I'll probably take some pics to share soon. Cool!

**mah** · November 16th, 2010, 09:26 PM

A neat furniture-piece solution, Steve.:2thumbsup: If you put a back on it you will keep dust out of the albums.

Good equipment rack, also.

Aussies, this frame(or similar) is available at Officeworks in 2 widths for this depth and height.

My effort is not as elegant. A flat-pack ledger file "bookcase" from Officeworks-often on sale at a very much reduced price. Several heights available.

I added a 1"x3/4" pine strip to each panel to increase the carcase and shelf depth. Dividers are necessary for shelf support but not as many as I fitted.

Cheers, Marshall.

**Steve Schell** · November 17th, 2010, 02:03 AM

For LP storage I currently use a combination of surplus steel shelves and 2 by 4 vertical supports held together with 1/4" machine hardware, bolted to a bedroom wall and providing room for about thirty six feet of LPs. This has worked out fine, although I currently own way too many records to enjoy them all properly, and I find that viewing the spines only is a bit inconvenient.

I remember fondly the record storage units I built in the late 1970s. Armed with particle board, a Skill saw and spray paint I was dangerous! Two cabinets functioned as bookshelf speaker stands with record storage underneath, and another served as a stand for my 19" TV also with record storage underneath. The records were arranged as in a record store, i.e. you thumbed through them with the jacket fronts facing you. Funny, I think I enjoyed the relatively few LPs I had back then more than all the ones I have now. It seems to get harder and harder to "buy a thrill" as one gets older.