Noted university professor Dr. James Smith comments: "Will you please tell us more about the shelves? I’ll be in the market soon."
Indeed so!
Knowing that I needed something sturdy and of high quality, I nonetheless opted to purchase something flimsy and of a quality so low it could have been manufactured in a Chinese factory making DVD players.
They came from (where else) Wal-Mart. I needed something similar to the ancient set of shelves we already have, so I got a couple 12 inch deep by 58 inch high, five-shelf bolt-together jobs that are to thinness what Jabba the Hut is to fatness. Were I to guess, I'd say they were probably 32 gauge. BUT, due to physics and strength of materials, once they got all bolted together (with help from Jonathan and Catherine) they were more than sturdy enough for what I needed them for. The only bad thing was that they leaned away from the wall, because the garage floor slopes away from the wall at the exact angle at which they were leaning, causing me to have to run to the hardware store for some wood wedge shims. Which really also need to be put under the old set of shelves, too.
SO, there you are!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 16, 2006 11:15 AMI was thinking more of something like these. If i could find some locally and afford them.
Posted by: jim at May 16, 2006 11:32 AMThose are very nice, but I have so many small things that I put on the shelves that I needed flat shelves instead of wire. It's hard for some of that junk to stay put if it keeps falling through the slots.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 16, 2006 11:38 AM