JeremyMSmith
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All,
I recently saw a peg board shelf from a neighbor at a competition cook a few weeks back. He simply screwed pegboard over a square-shaped 1 inch PVC pipe frame. He C-clamped the pipe to his fold out table in the back and rested the shelf against his U-Haul trailer. He threw a few pegboard baskets, a paper towel holder, and a magnetic knife bar to hold his cutleries. He also used a hinge in the middle, to fold the peg board in half (the two peg boards faced each other, but he had to remove all of the peg hooks). It was pretty basic, a little wobbly, but it was quite functional. I wondered if I could design something sturdier, just as functional, and it remain portable.
It's a been a few weeks and I've decided I'd like to make two 36 inch L x 6-8 inch W x 36 inch H) boxes. I wanted to be able to fold them out on the back side of my 6-foot plastic table (30 in W). I like the idea of my shelves constructed into two separate boxes that could fold up (or into each other) like a suitcase, then latch them together, all while preserving the gadgets inside. I looked into the material weight if using using 1/2 inch plywood, and was a bit floored it came to ~40.6 lbs per box!! If you reduce the thickness to 3/8 it reduces the weight by half, however, I'm concerned the shelf would be too flimsy. Maybe with the peg board installed it will be fine? I may return to the 3/8 design but am currently exploring building two square boxes from 1 inch (sch 40) PVC pipe. I'm thinking of designing one box with pegboard and the other with a shelf or two. I'm taking some more time to think about what I'm really wanting to put inside of the boxes but wanted to bounce idea off of others first.
Would you probably go with wood? Can you think of another type of material that would be good here? Better design? I'm open at this point, I just want to take my time and construct a compact and efficient shelf for competitions.
Below is a basic diagram of what I'm thinking. There are some details I'm leaving out about how I'd like to fasten the shelves to my table but I wanted to keep them out in case you have a recommendation for that as well.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9eivi9sncIbTVZJNWxuZlZhQ0k
Cheers!
Jeremy
I recently saw a peg board shelf from a neighbor at a competition cook a few weeks back. He simply screwed pegboard over a square-shaped 1 inch PVC pipe frame. He C-clamped the pipe to his fold out table in the back and rested the shelf against his U-Haul trailer. He threw a few pegboard baskets, a paper towel holder, and a magnetic knife bar to hold his cutleries. He also used a hinge in the middle, to fold the peg board in half (the two peg boards faced each other, but he had to remove all of the peg hooks). It was pretty basic, a little wobbly, but it was quite functional. I wondered if I could design something sturdier, just as functional, and it remain portable.
It's a been a few weeks and I've decided I'd like to make two 36 inch L x 6-8 inch W x 36 inch H) boxes. I wanted to be able to fold them out on the back side of my 6-foot plastic table (30 in W). I like the idea of my shelves constructed into two separate boxes that could fold up (or into each other) like a suitcase, then latch them together, all while preserving the gadgets inside. I looked into the material weight if using using 1/2 inch plywood, and was a bit floored it came to ~40.6 lbs per box!! If you reduce the thickness to 3/8 it reduces the weight by half, however, I'm concerned the shelf would be too flimsy. Maybe with the peg board installed it will be fine? I may return to the 3/8 design but am currently exploring building two square boxes from 1 inch (sch 40) PVC pipe. I'm thinking of designing one box with pegboard and the other with a shelf or two. I'm taking some more time to think about what I'm really wanting to put inside of the boxes but wanted to bounce idea off of others first.
Would you probably go with wood? Can you think of another type of material that would be good here? Better design? I'm open at this point, I just want to take my time and construct a compact and efficient shelf for competitions.
Below is a basic diagram of what I'm thinking. There are some details I'm leaving out about how I'd like to fasten the shelves to my table but I wanted to keep them out in case you have a recommendation for that as well.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9eivi9sncIbTVZJNWxuZlZhQ0k
Cheers!
Jeremy
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