Echlin NAPA cabinet, need shelf brackets

[northerngmc]

I have this old Echlin NAPA cabinet in my shop. The problem is it is missing all the shelves.

Anybody have a source where I can buy shelf brackets to fit in this cabinet?

 

[northerngmc]

Hummmm, 125 views an nothing?

Anybody have one of these and can post what the shelpf brackets look like?

 

[Kevin54]

Do you have any holes in the back that you could screw through? If not, and you don't want to drill any holes, I would look at one of the box stores for some brackets or a shelf to set them on.

 

[Steevo]

The pictures provided do not give a very good perspective as to what the inside of that cabinet looks like, or how the shelves fit.

There are probably a number of ways to put shelves in it without drilling the cabinet, but we'd need better pics to make suggestions.

I doubt you'll find any original equipment shelves to just pop in there.

 

[84944Redline]

You've got great cabinets and I'd love to have one! I own a dozen different old parts cabinets and two of them are Napa Echlin ones. Mine don't have shelving like what your picture shows...but it would help if you could post some additional pictures to get a better perspective.

I looked on eBay and cabinets like yours have sold recently. Take a look at those pictures and see if these are the exact style of cabinet you have. Some interiors are different from the next even though the outside looks the same.

You may be up for a never ending search for original shelves. You'd probably have better luck trying to find a matching cabinet to buy and hope it has all the shelves so you can divide them up.

The guys on this forum give great advise and are very clever, so I'm sure there is a way to make something that'll work for you. I vote for going the route of not drilling any holes.

 

[northerngmc]

Ok, problem is the cabinet is full of junk and I was embarrassed to show a photo!

Basically inside both the upper and lower cabinets each have a row of holes, shown in the second photo, right in the outside corner running up and down.

I really don't want to drill holes in the cabinet.

My next option is to try and find machine screws with a head that will pop into the holes and then attach them to L brackets.

 

[northerngmc]

Thanks for the eBay tip. I think I found one with the shelves.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ech...=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Not at all what I was thinking it would look like inside.

I will make custom shelves for storage.

 

[84944Redline]

Yep - that's the same listing I was looking at! Glad you at least know what the inside should look like.

Please post some pictures of what you end up doing. Good luck!

 

[fordbroncodave]

if they are the same as my bumper to bumper and carquest cabinets you can have a few of my shelves

 

[northerngmc]

Update, shelves installed today.

I found machine screws that the heads would drop into the slots.

 

[northerngmc]

Then I used shelf brackets.....

 

[northerngmc]

And mounted shelves to the brackets.....