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

Larry$ said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
pontiac428 said:
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.
Click to expand...
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.

IMG_4712.jpeg
IMG_4713.jpeg
 
Last edited:
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.
 
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.

IMG_0175.jpeg
 
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.
 

Attachments

  • PXL_20240225_185310040.jpg
    PXL_20240225_185310040.jpg
    433.8 KB · Views: 34
  • PXL_20240225_185313506.jpg
    PXL_20240225_185313506.jpg
    468.9 KB · Views: 29
  • PXL_20240225_185948930.jpg
    PXL_20240225_185948930.jpg
    438.1 KB · Views: 30
  • PXL_20240225_185953415.jpg
    PXL_20240225_185953415.jpg
    486.1 KB · Views: 34
  • PXL_20240225_190004184.jpg
    PXL_20240225_190004184.jpg
    499.7 KB · Views: 38
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?
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top