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Sunday, October 2 2011

I had to make a few adjustments to one of my new shelving skeleton modules, so I didn't get the shelves installed until this afternoon. The actual shelf surfaces ended up being whatever I could find: a 36 by 23 inch piece of quarter inch particleboard for the top shelf, two 16 by 36 inch pieces of three quarter inch plywood for the next shelf down, and, for the bottom shelf, four 48 inch oak planks (salvaged from the barn at my childhood homestead when it was torn down some years back). Because of the way the skeleton of trusses had been put together, in some places shelf spaces were vertically divided by a narrow plank and in others they were divided by a two inch piece of skeleton as well as a plank.

Here are a couple photos of the result:


Looking southeastward at the new shelving unit. Note the metal shelving unit on the right which had defined the space this new unit was designed to fill.


Looking northeastward at the new shelving unit. Yes, that's a marginal trombone I dumpster dived in Oberlin, Ohio in the early 1990s.

Once I had the new shelving unit in place, I realized that I finally had a good place to store a couple of large panes of glass I'd replaced a year ago on the hydronic solar panel. These panes, which measure about five feet by three feet, had broken, but the breaks had left the vast bulk of the glass in perfectly good condition and I plan at some point to cut them down to useful rectangles and use them for some other solar project. But in the meantime I need to store them. And what better place to store them than in the narrow gap between today's shelving unit and the metal shelving unit in front of it?


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