Still doing minor 'decluttering' fixes, ahead of changing up an entire side wall of oru suburban 2-car garage / everything shop
got on a a bit of a roll today.
First up was the ceiling rack for our big ladder. This was just (4) 4"x16" pieces of 3/4 plywood. I screwed the top ends into the sides of the rafters. I -reinstalled the screws at an angle, knowing I was jamming the wood up into an insulated place. And on their flip slids I drove a pair of short screws to act as slide / leveling slots. All I had to do was go up the ladder and jam each piece up against the stops to be at depth and square. The bottom ends got a 7/8" hole.
I used a piece of 3/4" EMT conduit as the cross pieces. And once those pipe pieces were in place I just crimped their ends with some channel locks and my Kung-Fu Grip[sup][size=8pt]TM[/size][/sup]
I'll probably add a loop of coathanger wire as a retention ******** the ladder foot, keep it form sliding out of there in an earthquake. Maybe.
Then it was on to the screwdriver rack. We had three short, different racks on the wall. And I have a LOT of other specialty screwdrivers for various things / hobbies, but most of those live in other places. But I wanted to condense what we had at this bench and had a yen to route some redwood. Wood was 2" tall, 1-1/2" wide, cut down from a 2x4. I spaced the holes 1-1/4" apart, used a 3/8" bit. And a 1/2" bit on a couple holes at each end, for very large screwdrivers. I then ran the wood thru my router table, using a large upright ogive bit. Gave it some style and exposed the thru holes for the drivers. It's just screwed to the pegboard for now.
Then it was on to the spray paint and nail/screw box rack. A standardized nail / screw box is almost as wide as a paint can is tall. So I thought to combine the two and turn the front edge of the paint rack into a nail box holder too. The bottom of the pain box just has a 2-1/2" tall fascia which acts to tilt the paint cans up. Helps the stack of paint cans stay in the box and better presents the caps for viewing. Besides color, there are many varieties of paints in there, which I've identified with a Sharpie. A typical paint can is 2-5/8" wide. I was going for a 16" width to the paint section, 6 cans wide, interleaved with 5-can rows. But I accidentally made it too wide so my can stack sort of falls askew. I need to put a shim in there to take up the extra space.
As for the nail boxes, I needed to put some shelves in there every 2-3-4 boxes. Fresh full boxes are sturdy, will stack well. Old beat up mostly empty boxes do not. So there's no order in this stack except freshest and fullest to the bottom. But the stack wobbles. Maybe I need a similar curb at the bottom of the box stack to also cant them up at the front and help stabilize the stack. Or glue in some shelves. This is also a cosmetic thing, as I have a LOT more nails and screws, they're in a bunch of cylindrical storage containers stuck in a 5gal bucket for transportability.
Whole thing is a slapdash prototype, made from 3 different kinds of leftover wood scrap. Glued and brad nailed together. It'll do until I see how it works. It or some later version will eventually be attached to the side of the tall cabinet which will sit right behind / beside it. Probably ought to be some slanted shelves between every couple rows of paint cans, too, so the bottom ones can be removed with greater ease.
Maybe now I can quit buying spray paints I already have.
