Oven Racks

[Johnny A]

Another question: I have a few oven racks from my old range. Any ideas to repurpose them?

 

[4xdog]

I use an old cooling rack as a support for rattle-can painting things in my garage. It gets placed on a large sheet of corrugated paperboard and it give me better access to the work and less chance of wet paint sticking to the backing sheet

 

[jimreed2160]

I have been cutting up an old grill wire rack for the stout wire. Last project was two "L" brackets to hold a soundbar under the TV.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I have used oven and or refrigerator wire shelves supported in a cardboard box to make a small paint booth. I put the Shop Vac hose through the bottom back of the modified box to make a vented downdraft .

 

[58Yeoman]

I have used oven and or refrigerator wire shelves supported in a cardboard box to make a small paint booth. I put the Shop Vac hose through the bottom back of the modified box to make a vented downdraft .

I REALLY like this idea. I just burned the huge box that my new Weber grill came in...in would've made a great box for that. The shop vac doesn't mind the fumes?

 

[A29]

Made TV antennas out of mine

 

[texasprd]

If you have tool box and need a holder for pliers, maybe they could be repurposed as pliers racks (search this forum and the tool forum for discussions on pliers racks/holders)

 

[George in Rancho Cordova]

I wouldn't connect a shop vac to a paint booth unless it is explosion proof, or the paint is water-based.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Shop vacs are spark producers, never should it be used for paint fumes. Even just vacuuming wood dust will create sparks from the hose to the operator much less to a paint booth plus the sparks in the motor from the brushes. The cheaper ones even send the output air through to cool the motor instead of separate fans for vac and motor cooling. Do it right don't burn your shop down.... A wood working dust collector would be a lot safer and with right motor could be explosion proof. Even a kitchen vent fan would be safer than a shop vac for this application and vent directly outside in metal duct would be a lot safer..

 

[Spareparts]

Used them as rock guards on my midget dirt car

 

[matt_i]

I don't think a shop vac is the correct source of airflow, due to explosion potential mentioned above.

I would rather use a TEFC motor that's outside of the airstream, one possibility is, driving a squirrel-cage fan. Could also be a belt-drive parallel-shaft arrangement too.