"MM54" (mm54mk2)
04/15/2018 at 22:00 • Filed to: Garagelopnik
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"MM54" (mm54mk2)
04/15/2018 at 22:00 • Filed to: Garagelopnik | 5
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I’m in the process of tidying up the garage some (I vacuumed yesterday, that was fun) and otherwise improving the organization, partly because it needs done, and partly in anticipation of a major arrival late this week or early next.
30 boxes of hardwood flooring yields a lot of good cardboard for laying on
I decided that I wanted some shelves in this spot to hold things which are currently not on shelves (isn’t that how it always works?). The shelves in the above picture came with the house, but are maddeningly sized so things like washer fluid, antifreeze, and gear oil bottles are ever-so-slightly too tall. I made sure not to have that issue with the new shelves by measuring the aforementioned containers to determine spacing.
The free-standing shelf is deeper (1x12), but pointlessly so - nowhere am I using the full depth of it, so I did these a little shallower (1x10) to save working space
Nothing crazy here, just three 3-foot pieces of 1x10 on shelf brackets (which I’ve recently discovered to be WAY sturdier than I expected for a $1.60 stamped piece of tin). Once in place, I gave them a quick rub down with 220 grit and rubbed in some tung oil to seal the wood up at least a little bit.
It doesn’t look like it in the picture, but these actually do juuuust fit between the breaker panel and the other shelf, so once I re-route that asinine piece of flexible conduit (thanks, guys who installed the garage furnace) into the wall, I’ll be able to add a couple more shelves above this.
AestheticsInMotion
> MM54
04/15/2018 at 22:14 |
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Whoever designed those brackets is my hero. I’ve made so many quick & dirty shelves and workstations with those things.
Urambo Tauro
> MM54
04/15/2018 at 22:48 |
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Mmm, I love custom shelving. It’s so satisfying to know exactly what’s going where, so that you can maximize space on the next shelf.
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MM54
> AestheticsInMotion
04/15/2018 at 23:01 |
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I wrote them off for the longest time, but I needed a bracket for some quick light-duty shelving not all that long ago and got a couple - I’m impressed. The design makes sense and they work very well, all for under $2. My only complaint (with this size at least) is that the ‘upper’ holes in the wall-part are just far enough apart you have to run one of the screws in at an angle to get it to catch the stud. Doesn’t matter for this, but if it were somewhere I could see it, that’d be an eyesore.