Hey for anyone interested. I'm building two 20 slot racks for Sterilite 1754 tubs. When I went to Home Depot for the melamine, I was pleasantly surprised, they had a whole stack of new, undamaged shelves. I bought 10 each 8' x 15 7/8 shelves and a full sheet of white vinyl 1/4" for the back.

Both racks Will have belly heat and will be built using cabinet maker methods. Each rack has 1 slots or 11 shelves.

First evening I sliced up 6 of the shelves into 24 23 1/2" shelves. That's 20 shelves, 2 tops and two pieces to cut up later for fillers. The 20 shelves needed to be routed for the 3" heat tape. I used my table saw set up with a dado cutter to cut the slots. It took 4 passes to get the slots wide enough. I also routed the ends so I could thread the heat tape through the whole rack.

Phew, nice stack of pieces.



Second evening, I cut the sides to length 10 x (6.25" tub plus .75 shelf) = 70" plus top and some extra for toe base = 76"

Also drilled pocket holes in bottom side of all 20 shelves and the 2 tops.



Next step will be to cut spacers and assemble starting with the top and working down.
This way the surplus length on the sides will be left at the bottom. once done installing shelves I'll size the filler for the bottom and install it set back a few inches from the front as a toe space.
I'll post more pics as I progress.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"


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