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#395792 - 08/05/13 12:00 AM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 09/25/02 Posts: 1488 Loc: Maine |
I know you said you are not really looking for a "flexy" rack but they are really quite easy to build and of course, very flexible. Here are a couple photo's of a rack I built for a client's custom install a couple months ago. The shelves are 3/4 prefinished plywood with some mahogany I wrapped the edges with which matches the rest of the wood in the house.
The rods are 3/4" that were spray painted. I did have to go back once it was assembled and touch up the paint. To avoid overspray I sucked up all the overspray with a shop vac placed right on the other side of what I was spraying which worked very well. I also added some pieces on the back to the shelves to facilitate fastening all of the cables down with ties which you can kind of make out in the photos. ![]() ![]() Edited by Haoleb (08/05/13 12:01 AM)
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#395793 - 08/05/13 12:06 AM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 10/12/12 Posts: 1773 Loc: Canada |
I haven't seen cabling that neat since I worked on a wind farm.
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#395794 - 08/05/13 12:09 AM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 10/12/12 Posts: 1773 Loc: Canada |
What was on the top shelf?
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#395795 - 08/05/13 12:41 AM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 09/25/02 Posts: 1488 Loc: Maine |
Originally Posted By: brwsaw What was on the top shelf? The top shelf is a 20a tripplite surge suppressor. As far as the wiring goes it is very hard to make exposed wiring look neat. I learned how to make stuff look really nice though building industrial control panels. That is until the electrician gets in there and makes a rats nest out of it. Some of the panels on this page I will link to I also built. When I worked for this company it was me and one other guy in the shop who also did very nice work and taught me quite a few tricks. http://www.aecmaine.com/photogallery.htm Edited by Haoleb (08/05/13 12:44 AM)
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#395806 - 08/05/13 10:16 AM
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![]() axiomite Registered: 09/16/04 Posts: 5319 Loc: Marion, IA |
What was the cost for the wood, rods, washers, nuts?
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#395812 - 08/05/13 01:04 PM
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![]() axiomite ![]() Registered: 08/05/09 Posts: 6015 Loc: Milky Way Galaxy |
Wow. Fancy! You don't want to see a picture of mine. That's for sure.
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#395817 - 08/05/13 01:13 PM
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![]() shareholder in the making ![]() Registered: 04/02/03 Posts: 16437 Loc: Ben Lomond, California |
Originally Posted By: CatBrat You don't want to see a picture of mine. Truer words have never been spoken.
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#395830 - 08/05/13 10:52 PM
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![]() connoisseur ![]() Registered: 09/25/02 Posts: 1488 Loc: Maine |
The plywood is something like 60 or 80 dollars a sheet... I used one sheet..I am in Hawaii right now and of course you cant buy a stick of gum without getting ripped off here. SO I would expect cheaper anywhere else.
Rods I think were $20 each for 6 footers and I think the other hardware was 30 or 40 dollars at home depot. The mahogany I had as extra trim for windows and doors that I cut up. So in the end somewhere on the order of $200 but.. alot cheaper than the 700-1000$ prebuilt racks I was looking at, Which I would have gone with but I could not find one the correct dimension to fit in this closet.
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#396092 - 08/15/13 10:54 AM
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![]() local ![]() Registered: 12/16/07 Posts: 257 Loc: Orlando, FL |
Well I am hoping that in 2 weeks I can start to apply some serious thought to this.
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#396100 - 08/15/13 03:02 PM
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![]() buff ![]() Registered: 08/07/13 Posts: 47 Loc: Ottawa, Canada |
You've inspired me to clean up my backside as well. Hmm, that didn't come out right.
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