WandrinAndy
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Spent the winter downunder with my girls and grandkids, and organised two new garage workshops for my two SILs (with their buy in) mainly by installing wall storage shelves hanging from french-cleat wall slats...
We cut twenty eight 2400mm french-cleat slats from two 19mm plywood sheets using a table-saw. First cut them square to a width of +-82mm, and then cut the 45degree bevel along one edge.
In the stud-wall garage, the wall slats were secured at top-edge heights of 900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100mm using two 65mm square-drive screws per stud which are spaced (mostly) at 600mm centres.
The equipment and tools in this shed are relatively basic, as this SIL's DIY-gene is currently near-enough-as-damnit inactive. :|
In the brick-wall garage (hardest bricks I have ever encountered ) the wall slats were first secured to two 17mm plywood sheets using 2x35mm screws spaced at 400mm centres. And then these sheets were attached to the brick-wall using twelve 90mm bolts per sheet. The standard width of the plywood sheets resulted in these four wall slats being spaced vertically at 358mm centres.
This shed is better equipped, as this SIL has an active DIY-gene, and he is a gadget/tool man . So this shed organisation also included: more clamp-storage using the shelf ends; mounting the bench drill press on a wall shelf above and behind left side of bench; a horizontal-timber-storage-off-cut-rack using 19mm dowels set at 5.5degrees from horizontal; a Mobile-Base-Cutting-Bench-with-Hinged-Extension-Wings.
Aaaaah.... those were the days! Back in Blighty without a workshop again... unfortunately still no contract work available... and am yearning to spend more time in one of "my" man-caves... But now that I've found this forum I at least have plenty to drool over. =P~
Andy
We cut twenty eight 2400mm french-cleat slats from two 19mm plywood sheets using a table-saw. First cut them square to a width of +-82mm, and then cut the 45degree bevel along one edge.
In the stud-wall garage, the wall slats were secured at top-edge heights of 900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100mm using two 65mm square-drive screws per stud which are spaced (mostly) at 600mm centres.
The equipment and tools in this shed are relatively basic, as this SIL's DIY-gene is currently near-enough-as-damnit inactive. :|
In the brick-wall garage (hardest bricks I have ever encountered ) the wall slats were first secured to two 17mm plywood sheets using 2x35mm screws spaced at 400mm centres. And then these sheets were attached to the brick-wall using twelve 90mm bolts per sheet. The standard width of the plywood sheets resulted in these four wall slats being spaced vertically at 358mm centres.
This shed is better equipped, as this SIL has an active DIY-gene, and he is a gadget/tool man . So this shed organisation also included: more clamp-storage using the shelf ends; mounting the bench drill press on a wall shelf above and behind left side of bench; a horizontal-timber-storage-off-cut-rack using 19mm dowels set at 5.5degrees from horizontal; a Mobile-Base-Cutting-Bench-with-Hinged-Extension-Wings.
Aaaaah.... those were the days! Back in Blighty without a workshop again... unfortunately still no contract work available... and am yearning to spend more time in one of "my" man-caves... But now that I've found this forum I at least have plenty to drool over. =P~
Andy