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Can casters be rigged to plastic shelving? 2016-06-10 03:54:07 Post No. 1006394
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Can casters be rigged to plastic shelving? 2016-06-10 03:54:07 Post No. 1006394
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Is the wooden platform sturdy enough? Is there a better way to do this? other than buying metal shelving at $70 a piece and at a smaller size. Plastic is $30 and the casters would be $5-6 each? I will be putting mostly light stuff on them eg. cleaning liquids, assortment of nuts and bolts, etc. All of this on a flat smooth surface of course.
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>>1006394
I'll arrange them like this
And the youtube video shown, no longer exists. On Instructables, there isn't any feedback or updates.
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I get the feeling it's going to sway. I'd do the metal wire shelving but I tend to move a lot and plastics are easier pack up.
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>>1006396
$70 and upwards
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>>1006394
Just build a shelf out of 2x4 and plywood. I built the shelves in my garage out of wood I recycled out of construction scrap piles. I always ask before I start digging and I have never been turned away. Renovations are the best source of big timbers, vs new construction. I got almost 40 2x6s from a roof replacement (shallow pitch gravel roof being replaced by a steeper pitched shingle roof). Outside of a few nails and having to cut them down a bit because of the angled cuts on the ends they were fine. New construction is best for scraps of plywood (fuck OSB). Still, I had to buy some plywood but only 2 sheets overall. I spent more on screws they I did on wood.
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>>1006399
The construction around my area is usually fenced off. And I don't know when they're on site.
That and I wanted to maximize the shelf space against the wall; I can only do one wall. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep an eye out for scrap wood.
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>>1006394
bumping with more pictures of shelves. I wish I could afford these.
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or these
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The space I have to work with is about half of this.
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If I had more tools and time
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>>1006402
We have these in the ICU stockroom. They cost way way more than they look like they should, but they work very well.
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