Mythbusters welded shop shelving

[douglawrence42]

Made a quick video to show my adaptation of the shelves from mythbusters. Enjoy

Basically just slapping together some square tubing, but the idea for overlapping elements rather than using traditional **** or mitre joints really speeds up the process


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[carsandcapp]

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[Moosefire]

Looks good. I hope to do the same one of these days. [emoji106]

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[douglawrence42]

Looks good. I hope to do the same one of these days. [emoji106]

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Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks guys. This is one of those insane project escalation ongoing disasters. The goal was to warm up the shop. So insulate the ceiling. Which means I have to sheath the ceiling. Which requires me to clean up the shop so I can move the drywall jack everywhere it needs to go. But since I don’t want to move the same stuff multiple times, I better come up with a permanent stuff solution. Which led to wrapping the walls in custom floor to ceiling shelves. Which meant I needed to insulate the walls first.....


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[acer66]

Thanks guys. This is one of those insane project escalation ongoing disasters. The goal was to warm up the shop. So insulate the ceiling. Which means I have to sheath the ceiling. Which requires me to clean up the shop so I can move the drywall jack everywhere it needs to go. But since I don’t want to move the same stuff multiple times, I better come up with a permanent stuff solution. Which led to wrapping the walls in custom floor to ceiling shelves. Which meant I needed to insulate the walls first.....


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Funny, I am going through the same thing.

 

[bad_idea]

Thanks guys. This is one of those insane project escalation ongoing disasters. The goal was to warm up the shop. So insulate the ceiling. Which means I have to sheath the ceiling. Which requires me to clean up the shop so I can move the drywall jack everywhere it needs to go. But since I don’t want to move the same stuff multiple times, I better come up with a permanent stuff solution. Which led to wrapping the walls in custom floor to ceiling shelves. Which meant I needed to insulate the walls first.....


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I FEEL YOUR PAIN! I am moving into my 30x40 home shop I built now. I moved my fully functional homeshop from the last house into this one and have been pulling my hair out setting it up. I have learned to build it in stages, installing or setting up a part of the shop with the full knowledge I will have to undo it later when I set up the next thing. Example - I hung all of my overhead lights from the truss bottoms knowing I will have to remove them to hang the ceiling in a year or two - no money for the ceiling now.

Good video. I'll have to check out myth buster's video on their shop setup now. Thanks.

 

[banjopete]

I think many of us have been in that exact spot. I knew I wanted ceiling changes so before heat, changes had to happen, before ceiling goes on, before insulation, before heater going up etc. Nice work on the shelves too.

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[douglawrence42]

Good video. I'll have to check out myth buster's video on their shop setup now. Thanks.

Thanks. This is the mythbusters video:

It doesn’t have much more than I showed on the shelves. It does show a clever idea for nesting work tables.


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[douglawrence42]

Had some questions from non welders about equipment cost.

My welder is down to $488 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009X43F38/?tag=atomicindus08-20

So build some cheap shelves and get a decent home mig setup all for less than good commercial shelves!


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[MushCreek]

Thanks guys. This is one of those insane project escalation ongoing disasters. The goal was to warm up the shop. So insulate the ceiling. Which means I have to sheath the ceiling. Which requires me to clean up the shop so I can move the drywall jack everywhere it needs to go. But since I don’t want to move the same stuff multiple times, I better come up with a permanent stuff solution. Which led to wrapping the walls in custom floor to ceiling shelves. Which meant I needed to insulate the walls first.....


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The story of my life! I've been going through this on our entire property as I finish building our house, basement, garage, shed, barn....

I have quite a number of shelving units, ranging from top-of-the-line commercial ones down to cheap plastic ****. I'm also OCD enough that it irks me that they don't match. I could see a whole wall of matching shelves, with matching bins. Some day.....

 

[38Chevy454]

Nice work and video. I can sympathize about the need for space and storage vs the need for being able to build it. Went through that on my detached garage. Compounded the problem with everything was packed away, so even finding tghe right tools was part of the battle.
Only suggestion I might make is to put as much insulation as you can before the walls and ceiling are covered or sheeted over. Insulation is good for both hot and cold temps.

 

[douglawrence42]

Nice work and video. I can sympathize about the need for space and storage vs the need for being able to build it. Went through that on my detached garage. Compounded the problem with everything was packed away, so even finding tghe right tools was part of the battle.
Only suggestion I might make is to put as much insulation as you can before the walls and ceiling are covered or sheeted over. Insulation is good for both hot and cold temps.

Thanks. I’m in a pretty mild part of Virginia, so trading some wall insulation for still having the studs exposed was worth it to me. I have come to terms with the fact that the electrical will never truly be “done”. Sheath the ceiling and pile up the blow in insulation above is actually goal number one for all this nonsense. That and an attic fan should do a great job sucking the heat out in the summer. But in my demented form of laziness, building out the shelves first is easier because I only have to move the junk in the shop once.

Thanks again for the video compliment.


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[douglawrence42]

Next section is complete


Finally after 4 years in the shop I have functional small parts organization!



This plan is coming together. About %20 complete for the shop





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[MushCreek]

Looking good! I can't wait to see the finished product.

I started pricing steel tubing, and I think I'll just build a similar system out of 2X4's. I'll lose a little more space, but yow! steel has gotten pricey. I built one section of 2X4 shelving in my basement, and it's the strongest shelves I own.

I like the idea of standardized spacing and totes. I'm going to select a tote that makes the most sense for my stuff, then design the shelves around them. It's also inspired me to use some steel tote pans I already have to organize my short metal pieces. I hoard cut-off lengths of angle, tube, and bar stock, because you never know when you need a 6" piece of something. They're very hard to store cleanly, though. I have six metal tote pans, so I can sort stuff and label the pans.

 

[douglawrence42]

Looking good! I can't wait to see the finished product.

I started pricing steel tubing, and I think I'll just build a similar system out of 2X4's. I'll lose a little more space, but yow! steel has gotten pricey. I built one section of 2X4 shelving in my basement, and it's the strongest shelves I own.

I like the idea of standardized spacing and totes. I'm going to select a tote that makes the most sense for my stuff, then design the shelves around them. It's also inspired me to use some steel tote pans I already have to organize my short metal pieces. I hoard cut-off lengths of angle, tube, and bar stock, because you never know when you need a 6" piece of something. They're very hard to store cleanly, though. I have six metal tote pans, so I can sort stuff and label the pans.

Steel is very reasonable:


So around $120 in metal for the video shelf.


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