Re: [ARSCLIST] Steel shelving

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter:

What about that place up in Stamford with all the used office furniture? I was going to give them a 
call today. Given all the manufacturing/warehousing companies that have left the CT-Boston corridor 
in the past decade, I wonder if one of these used places doesn't have a building full of perfectly 
good used shelving?

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Punto" <punto@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Steel shelving


> Steven Smolian wrote:
> > In any city of size there is a used industrial shelving place.  They also deliver.
> >
> > There's none in Frederick, where I live, but a bunch in Baltimore and more in DC, each an hour's 
> > drive.
> >
> > Be sure to measure cieling heights, door swings, etc. before going.  You;ll discover so much you 
> > didn't know about and now can't live without.
> >
> > Steve Smolian
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:37 AM
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Steel shelving
> >
> >
> > > I'd like to find a better version of this kind of shelf:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/3xf39d
> > > at a comparably reasonable price.
> > >
> > > The Home Depot shelves are OK but they are not always easy to assemble and have plenty of very 
> > > sharp edges. Does anyone make the old kind of bolt-together shelves anymore? Those took more 
> > > time to assemble but they seem less prone to stab/cut the user and as more easily reinforced if 
> > > one wants to exceed specs.
> > >
> > > The purpose of these shelves would be to store LPs organized in heavy cardboard boxes and 10" 
> > > reels of tape. Ideally, I'd like a reasonably heavy steel shelf bottom but I know from 
> > > experience that these Home Depot particle board bottoms can hold the kind of weight I'd be 
> > > putting on them, and it's easy enough to cut a replacement from hardwood plywood if needed. The 
> > > environment is stable indoor USA northeast. The material is not "save from the nuclear blast" 
> > > archival, just part of my collection. I could make do with the Home Depot option since it's 
> > > cheap and convenient but if there's a better quality option for a comparable price I'd take it.
> > >
> > > -- Tom Fine
> Steve,
>
> I am encouraged to hear this, but I have to say that I spent a lot of time searching for such a 
> place somewhere within a 50 mile radius of NYC and came up with nothing. I asked the head of 
> maintenance for the facility where I work (a warehouse with plenty of steel shelving everywhere) 
> and even that produced no supplier of new or used shelving. I did find some online vendors, but 
> none of them could point me to a location where I could actually see what I was buying (unless I 
> wanted to travel to Texas) or get a someone on the phone to answer a few questions. I ended up 
> with some Ikea Ivar units (discussed previously on this list. Mine are braced with extra metal 
> cross bars) that seem to be holding up but I am more than a bit nervous with wood shelving even 
> after six months or so.
>
> Peter Hirsch