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Old 18th Mar 2017, 12:11 pm   #6
Skywave
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Arrow Re: Cheap display rack/shelving

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Originally Posted by high_vacuum_house View Post
. . . after a few weeks it had started tipping up and was near the point of collapse. The structure had started to parallelogram . . .
. . . suggest that some sort of bracing is fitted to prevent any disasters if old radios etc. are to be put on it.
I have installed a good deal of traditional Dexion shelving in the workshop. Even with the screws securely tightened and with a lightweight load, it was still necessary to install cross-bracing to avoid that 'parallelogram effect'. Although such bracing was made by Dexion specifically for that purpose, I had none, so I used lengths of softwood, suitably painted.
The 'golden rule' for fitting bracing, of course, is always to aim at making triangles.

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