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
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From: "Punto" <[log in to unmask]>
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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" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> 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
>
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