Workshop shelf (by alaric)
As part of my tireless service to the village of Cranham, I'm now a member of the Cranham Village Hall Committee (and so a trustee of a second charity!)
This has its perks. In particular, when they renovated the hall, a big thick solid shelf was torn out, and I saved it from the skip to put it in my workshop. It's a bit battered, so not very pretty, but as a workshop shelf it'll only get more scarred, so that's fine.
After some trials and tribulations, I managed to mount it on the wall:
Mainly, I had to cut gaps in the brackets to let them fit over the black power conduit (while maintaining their structural integrity), despite the conduit being level with the wall but not level with the shelf, as the line of the blockwork in the wall is not level with respect to gravity. No surprise when you consider that the building had shifted somewhat since it was built.
So, for the record, despite the shelf looking quite wonky, it's level:
I also had the choice of 75mm or 50mm screws. 50mm screws would have only protruded about a centimetre into the wall, which would not bode well, while the 75mm screws had a good centimetre spare, so I cut little blocks of wood and ran 75mm screws through them, then through the brackets, then into the wall. There's something really satisfying about screwing a long, thick (6mm), screw tightly into a fresh, virgin, wall plug.
The 50mm screws were perfect for screwing the horizontals of the brackets to the undersides of the shelf, mind.
Finally, I mounted a strip of angle iron under the shelf, for clipping my set of clamps to:
Much nicer than having them languishing in a bag...
Building Maintenance | alaric | 
Mon 28th Jul 2008 11:51 pm
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