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Tips/Techniques file storage rack

Tips/Techniques

PeterT

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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.
 

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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. ;)
 
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....
 
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