Tips/Techniques file storage rack

[PeterT]

Time to give my good files a better home from their 'temporary' cardboard coffins. Temporary meaning several years. Its not considered good practice to have them nestled & touching, but mostly it was overdue time to free up wasted real estate. The blank table space is just a photo-op, it will be occupied again soon. Made from 3/8" ply, glued & screwed. Attached to wall with those metal drywall anchors. No real design plan, I just made a TLAR template I could print 3x & stick on the wood in series to indicate holes & slots. I should have stopped there but I've had this new paint kicking around reserved for some future shelving projects so decided to test drive it on the rack. I should have picked something with less nooks & cranny's. Probably could make it faster from a piece of angle aluminum but I wasn't sure I'd like it. The brown stuff is more expendable.

 

[jorogi]

Time to give my good files a better home from their 'temporary' cardboard coffins. Temporary meaning several years. Its not considered good practice to have them nestled & touching, but mostly it was overdue time to free up wasted real estate. The blank table space is just a photo-op, it will be occupied again soon. Made from 3/8" ply, glued & screwed. Attached to wall with those metal drywall anchors. No real design plan, I just made a TLAR template I could print 3x & stick on the wood in series to indicate holes & slots. I should have stopped there but I've had this new paint kicking around reserved for some future shelving projects so decided to test drive it on the rack. I should have picked something with less nooks & cranny's. Probably could make it faster from a piece of angle aluminum but I wasn't sure I'd like it. The brown stuff is more expendable.

Please tell me that's coincidence and not AR colour coding.

 

[PeterT]

AR? Accelerated Reader? Surely not Anal Retentive (guilty as charged )

 

[Ishmael]

Its not considered good practice to have them nestled & touching, but mostly it was overdue time to free up wasted real estate.

I really like your storage rack. Unfortunately, my files are all just stuffed into an old artillery shell casing, and I have been meaning to do something about that for years. Perhaps this will help me get moving on it....

 

[Tom O]

AR? Accelerated Reader? Surely not Anal Retentive (guilty as charged )
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I seem to recall this once upon a time.
“Ever since I started Reading Dynamics my Redding and comprehension has improved greatly.”

 

[Susquatch]

Might have meant AI not AR.