ersatzs2
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so I've begun assembly the storage wall and mounting overhead cabinets as time allows. These things are premium priced so I thought I'd share some comments as others think about springing for the F1/Cup Car prestige conferred by that little Lista emblem.
First off, these things are really heavy. I don't know what a single overhead cabinet weighs but I'm guessing 50lbs. maybe more. I assembled ~10' of 9' tall storage wall on the floor and with just the skeleton and back on it was a push for two of us to do the ****** and press to get it upright, and required some Inca/egyptian techniques to maneuver it back into place. The wall seems really strong. I have two sets of roll out shelves which are supposed to support 800lbs so obviously it needs to be bolted to floor and wall. But no question it will easily support that much weight. Really heavy gauge square tubing.
Attaching the end pieces uses a really annoying design: basically the little H shaped stampings that hang into L-shaped upright cutouts and wobble there loosely until loaded by a shelf or an end panel. To install the end panel means lining up six of these at once which is a) a two man job and b) best done before cracking open any beers.
The hanging cabinets, on the other hand, use hardware fit for a tank. Machined brackets screw into nut-serts in the back of each one, and fit into the lower edges of two massive rails that lag-bolt to the wall. You would rip the nutserts out long before anything else broke, and the functional weight capacity of the cabinet is likely far higher than anything you could fit in them.
The drawer hardware is fantastic: really strong with great materials. However the door latches for the storage wall are comically basic: a bent cut-out in the lower door sheetmetal catches a very small derlin nub: that's all that holds the door shut.
So I'm liking these a lot. But from a design standpoint they aren't perfection...
More as I find time to continue the installation...
First off, these things are really heavy. I don't know what a single overhead cabinet weighs but I'm guessing 50lbs. maybe more. I assembled ~10' of 9' tall storage wall on the floor and with just the skeleton and back on it was a push for two of us to do the ****** and press to get it upright, and required some Inca/egyptian techniques to maneuver it back into place. The wall seems really strong. I have two sets of roll out shelves which are supposed to support 800lbs so obviously it needs to be bolted to floor and wall. But no question it will easily support that much weight. Really heavy gauge square tubing.
Attaching the end pieces uses a really annoying design: basically the little H shaped stampings that hang into L-shaped upright cutouts and wobble there loosely until loaded by a shelf or an end panel. To install the end panel means lining up six of these at once which is a) a two man job and b) best done before cracking open any beers.
The hanging cabinets, on the other hand, use hardware fit for a tank. Machined brackets screw into nut-serts in the back of each one, and fit into the lower edges of two massive rails that lag-bolt to the wall. You would rip the nutserts out long before anything else broke, and the functional weight capacity of the cabinet is likely far higher than anything you could fit in them.
The drawer hardware is fantastic: really strong with great materials. However the door latches for the storage wall are comically basic: a bent cut-out in the lower door sheetmetal catches a very small derlin nub: that's all that holds the door shut.
So I'm liking these a lot. But from a design standpoint they aren't perfection...
More as I find time to continue the installation...
