POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[pontiac428]

I assembled the 3 wire shelving units I bought @ Sam's club. <snip>
I think they are way over optimistic, about what it will hold, but it is enough for practical purposes. Weight capacity per shelf on leveling feet 1000 lbs. ,, 133 lbs. on casters. Awkward photo, trying to show both loaded in the back ground and empty in foreground.

Those wire shelves are surprisingly strong! I have kept 40 ammo cans, double-stacked and fully packed with lead-bearing items such that I can fit no more loaded onto one of those units for a number of years now and it's solid as can be.

 

[wachuko]

Those wire shelves are surprisingly strong! I have kept 40 ammo cans, double-stacked and fully packed with lead-bearing items such that I can fit no more loaded onto one of those units for a number of years now and it's solid as can be.

Yup... I use them as my temporary table setup for the espresso machines. I cut them to the needed height and placed a butcher block on them. Temporary setup might outlive me, lol.

 

[Aaron David]

Aren't those wire shelving units for kitchens? They would have to hold a lot of dead weight for a restaurant: flour, sugar, oils, etc.

 

[francist]

I love those shelves! I must have about fifteen of them in my house serving various uses: basement and shop storage of parts, chemicals, supplies, paints; upstairs in closets for fabric storage; my studio/office area as pedestals for work surfaces; and even the stand for my pressing board.

They can hold huge amounts of weight although one thing I find is if the weight is point-loaded — like a heavy electric motor, for instance, that has a small footprint for a large mass — a scrap of plywood helps to distribute the weight and not sag the wires as much. Otherwise I really like being able to see through them into the layer below rather than having to stoop down all the time.

 

[woodchucker]

Not what did I make, but what I just did... It's going to be 60*F here later in the week, last summer and into early fall we had yellow jackets that I tried spraying but was unable to kill them. So I took down the soffits today and found 2 huge nests.
Glad I did it, and glad I decided to continue down the roof... it's a small roof line a little facet to the roofline.
Damn little buggers.

 

[pontiac428]

Damn little buggers.

Kill them dead! Kill them with chemical weapons! Eradicate them, crush their eggs, leave none to tell of it!

 

[woodchucker]

Kill them dead! Kill them with chemical weapons! Eradicate them, crush their eggs, leave none to tell of it!

been drinking a little early today uh?

 

[pontiac428]

Just a touch of PTSD...

 

[Firstram]

Kill them dead! Kill them with chemical weapons! Eradicate them, crush their eggs, leave none to tell of it!

A pressure washer spraying gasoline is what comes to mind. I do value my house and life too much for that approach but...

 

[WobblyHand]

You ought to take that nest down before things warm up. Make sure it's real cold, cause they're going to be angry. I'd soak the nest in gas out in a clear area, and lighting them up. Probably a whole lot safer to suffocate them with CO2, and then drown them though in a trash can. Then I'd burn them. Don't like them one bit, can you tell?