20 May
1999
20 May
'99
8:05 p.m.
Gorilla Racks
The same basic design used in commercial warehouse shelving, except in
"lighter" 14 guage steel. A 6' x 6' x 1.5' unit with 3 shelves is
$99 at
Home Depot and requires two people to load the box (two big ones I bet). My
neighbor went serious bananas on this, and bought several of the 6' tall
and one double 8' (shelves share a common center support section). I want
some of these pretty badly, but my lust for toys is at war with my
cheapskate nature. Tomorrow is the show down.
The plastic ones and the Gorilla Racks are by far the better choices (with
the Gorilla Rack being the better of the two, although you pay for it).
However, for a seriously big collection, the Gorilla's are just too
costly. You should try looking around at surplus shops for the heavy duty
steel shelving. Its old and ugly but it can hold 10 times the weight of a
Gorilla rack, not that you'd need that much support.
Look around at close-out sales, surplus shops, junk yards, businesses
going out of business, etc. When Home Express (a nation-wide home
furnishing store in the U.S.) went out of business a year and a half back,
they sold everything in their stores including the fixtures. The racks
they used for stored displays are superb Metro brand wire frame racks.
They were selling 2' long x 4' wide by 5' high 4-shelf racks for $80 and
half height for $50. Normal retail value on each is greater than $300. I