Popular Woodworking 2002-04 № 127, страница 77
$3 Lumber Rack It doesn't take a lot of time or money to build a flexible and sturdy rack for your rough lumber and offcuts. In my family, we still remember the day my old lumber rack collapsed. I was upstairs with the kids when there was a sudden and horrible crash. The two cats ran in four directions; the baby started to wail. It was that loud. When I went down , , , Clamp all your pieces together when laying out the holes.This is the steps to the shop it faster and more accurate. looked like a giant box of toothpicks had spilled everywhere. It seems the metal brackets I had bolted to the walls had reached their limit. One of the brackets gave way and everything came tumbling down. So when I went to rebuild, I wanted something stout, simple and cheap. I pored over books and magazines for ideas, borrowed a few and made some changes. Here's what I came up with: Pipe and 2 x 4s Essentially, the backbones of this rack are 2 x 4s bolted on edge to the double top plate and the bottom plate of my shop wall. The bottom edges of your 2 x 4s should rest on something solid. In most shops, that means running them to the floor. In my shop, the lower half of my wall is cinder block, so I set the 2 x 4s on those. To hold the lumber, I drilled 7/sn-diame-ter holes through the 2 x 4s at 4" intervals and at a 5° angle. Then I inserted 12" lengths of 1/2" galvanized pipe in the holes. The 1/2" pipe, available in the plumbing section, actually has an exterior diameter of just under 7/s", so it fits nicely. Before you get started, there are a couple things to consider when building this rack for your shop. First, I used 12" lengths of pipe because I rarely have anything in my rack wider than 8". Wider lumber needs longer pipes. Plus, this rack is right over my jointer, so I didn't want the pipes to stick out any more than necessary. Prep Your Lumber I bought a single Southern yellow pine 2 x 8 that was 8' long for this project. By ripping it down the middle and crosscutting it into 4' lengths, I got four 4'- by Christopher Schwarz Comments or questions? Contact Chris at 513-531-2690 ext. 407 or chris.schwarz@fwpubs.com. 77 |
