>>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.

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

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>>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.

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>>Phew, nice stack of pieces.

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>>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"

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

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>>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,

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>>Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

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