Date:         Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:39:47 EDT
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From:         Cary Ginell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: LP RECORD STORAGE
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In a message dated 8/8/2006 9:54:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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Yes,

I certainly would not recommend the shelves that I bought  at the Home 
Despot a few years back for use in a storage locker. The  vertical posts 
are probably rigid and strong enough, but the shelf was  cheap chipboard 
which has started to cave in under the weight of some  boxes of old 
Gramophone and Fanfare mags.


About 25 years ago I bought a huge 7' x 4' x 12" particle board  bookshelf 
unit from Home Depot, or whatever passed for Home Depot back then.  There was no 
way a four foot shelf was going to hold LPs, so I bought some extra  boards 
and cut them into dividers, spacing them one foot apart. I nailed them in  
place, staggering them to distribute the weight and to make it easier to nail  
from above and below the dividers. So now I have a five shelf unit stocked with  
LPs and it's been fine ever since. I didn't paint it and it's ugly as 
chipboard  can get, but who notices once it's loaded with records? It's up against a 
wall  in my garage, bolted to the studs.
 
Cary  Ginell
Origin Jazz  Library
www.originjazz.com