I thought I'd show the WIP of my new ShopSmith 10ER tool shelf I’m building - including the tool pile without the shelf. I tried to organize the shelf notches as minimal geometric shapes offset from the background with darker stain and a small copper screw to ‘pop’ visually. I'm just a beginner, so not my best but it seems to work, pleasant enough to look at and fastened everything behind with dowels and glue.
An impressive collection of parts, and all nicely organized! Looks really good, and that level of "de-cluttering" in itself goes a long way towards ensuring the success of future projects.
Ed
Idaho Panhandle
Mark 5 of various vintages, Mini with reversing motor, bs, dc3300, jointer, increaser, decreaser
In his Magna Memorabilia thread John Dalton showed a wall board for 10E parts that once hung in a hardware store: viewtopic.php?p=295546#p295546
Yours has a lot more accessories on it. Very good use of space. I have to do something like that soon for Shopsmith medium size parts. I have the large and heavy ones wall mounted already, but will still need to unify storage for many small parts sitting in different drawers and organizers.
Thanks for everyone's encouragement! I have a terrible habit of over-complicating things, and thought I'd indulge it here:
The shelf backing is an existing frame, once screwed to the studs in the wall will be fine. So why not really mess with it?
That being said, the holding shelf is a frame that could 'float' off the backing frame about 1 3/4 inches, which would allow me to make the top shelf a pull-down one using old pipes, machine bolts and a gas piston. Why not? If it doesn't work I'll just screw/glue the whole thing into place -- until then, I'm going to play adult legos and see if I can build it.
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Last edited by Seezle on Mon Apr 24, 2023 7:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Update: I tested the mechanics on the pull-down shelf and they seem to work. The wooden supports on the side and middle will screw directly into studs on the garage wall. Machine bolts drilled into the struts with cotter pins hold it all in place.
For orientation, the included .gif has me at the top of the shelf.
Now for some gas pistons to ease the weight.
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