Do-it-yourself metal rack: how to make a metal rack and shelves in a cellar

One of the most popular metal structures, which is found both in production and in everyday life, is a metal rack.

What is a metal rack for?

A metal rack is most often used to store any items, in a production environment on they store tools and equipment, in everyday life they are used to store things, household items, blanks for the winter and NS.

The racks are separated by prefabricated and collapsible. In addition, they are distinguished by their carrying capacity.

Such designs can be purchased at a specialized store or made by hand.

We make a metal rack in the cellar

A metal rack is often installed in a cellar; it is used to store blanks for the winter. Quite often, such structures are made non-separable, that is, they are assembled using electric arc welding.

Required tools and materials

To perform such work, you will need the following items:

• A sketch, with its help, the amount of material required is determined.
• For the manufacture of homemade shelving, an equal-shelf corner is often used, its dimensions are determined in GOST 8509-93. It so happened that structures of this design use corners with a shelf measurement from 25 to 50 mm. However, the size of the corner determines the carrying capacity of the shelf.

The dimensions of the structure are determined based on the dimensions of the place where it will be installed.

Suppose that the length of the rack is two meters, the width of the shelf is within one meter, and the height of the structure is within 1500 mm. By performing simple arithmetic operations, you can calculate the amount of the corner:

For the manufacture of one shelf, 7 linear meters of a corner are required, this length includes two longitudinal corners and three transverse ones. The finished rack will have 2 shelves and 6 racks. In total, 23 p. Will be required. m corner.

To assemble the structure, you will need the following set of tools:

• A welding machine, preferably an inverter, these devices differ in the quality of the seam; for welding, you can use UONI or MR electrodes with a diameter of 3 or 4 mm. Welding can be carried out at a welding current of 160-200 A.
• A welding hammer can be used to remove scale from welded seams. To cut the corner to size, use an angle grinder with a circle diameter of 125 or 180 mm.
• To create shelves, as a rule, planed boards with a thickness of 24–40 mm are used.

IMPORTANT! CORNERS ON WHICH STORAGE BOARDS WILL BE POSITIONED MUST BE INSTALLED SO THAT ANGLES OF 90 DEGREES ARE FURNISHED FROM ONE ANOTHER. THIS WILL BE FORMED A PLACE FOR LAYING THE BOARDS.

And yet, so that the rack does not go into the ground, on vertical supports that will be in contact with its surface, it is necessary to weld square plastics with a size exceeding the cross-sectional dimensions corner.

Of course, all work on assembling the rack must be carried out using a locksmith corner, with its help they control the correct connection of the corners.

Drawings of metal storage racks

It will not be difficult to create working documentation for self-manufacturing of the rack. When developing it, it is important to observe all the dimensions that will be required for the manufacture of the structure. Failure to observe them can lead to the fact that the assembled product does not stand in a certain place for it.

Metal rack assembly diagram

The sequence of operations looks like the following.

1. First, the shelves are made, and then the racks are attached to them.
2. It is not recommended to immediately weld the structure, initially it is assembled on tacks and only after checking the angles and dimensions can full-fledged seams be made.

How to make a prefabricated metal shelving unit

To make a prefab rack, you will need an electric drill, a screwdriver, mounting angles, bolted or self-tapping fasteners and a number of drills. Directly during assembly, the use of wrenches will be required. Any type of keys can be used.

When creating a sketch, you need to determine the joints of the parts that make up the frame. If bolted fasteners are used, then it is necessary to prepare holes through which the bolts will pass. If the assembly will be carried out using self-tapping screws, then the holes will not need to be drilled. When performing work, it is necessary to constantly use a measuring tool to control the dimensions and angles of the connection of parts.

Metal shelves for storing conservation

For storage of canned blanks, you can use different materials, wood, metal, polymers.

For the manufacture of metal shelves, a certain amount of corner and sheet is required. The corner is required to make brackets for attaching the finished shelf to the wall. The width of the sheet for the shelf can be within 300 mm, the length can be within 600 mm. Electric arc welding is used to assemble the structure.