I use here two Home Depot plastic garbage cans along with a smaller one for
shorter pieces. They are placed in the corner with the walls giving extra
support for the longer tubes. On advantage is that the length of each piece
is instantly visible.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:16 AM Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net> wrote:
> I use the bent steel tube "L shape hang all" from Harbor Freight
> screwed to studs. On every other stud, these are strong enough to
> handle a few 20' lengths of steel structural shapes.
>
> Grizzly also sells a rack system that needs to be bolted to the wall.
>
> Unfortunately, my shop walls are mostly taken and the tube frame storage
> building has no studs, so in it I thread tubing into the wire rack
> shelving available from Costco. Two 4' wide shelves spaced to handle 16'
> lengths and 6 shelves allows a lot of storage of my aluminum farm.
>
> Short pieces go into a 3' x 3' x 2' plywood bin I made and subdivided
> with 3/8" rebar. Of course a lot of it will telescope into a couple
> sizes smaller. I also use HD 5 gal buckets with used cardboard mailing
> tubes for short steel stock. I cut a scrap plywood round to go inside
> so the bottom doesn't get punched out.
>
> Grant KZ1W
>
> On 9/23/2018 17:19 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> > Looking for ideas on a rack system to hold aluminum tubing.
> >
> > I have reciently put up a building and have a length of wall for
> > it but can't think of a great way to organize the tubing. Like to
> > build some
> > sort of wood rack(s) thing that would serve the purpose.
> >
> >
> > 73/jeff/ac0c
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