DIY XPVC Rack - Complete with pics!

In the beginning...

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Stabilize your pieces!

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Use the tubs and shelves to stabilize and determine your drill spots.

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Ripley the Patterdale Terrier aka B's Little Helper.

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Finished up the side support pieces.

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Back support pieces.

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Back support pieces finished, notice 4" gap on side pieces to leave room for 4" Flexwatt.

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Front shot.

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All completed!

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After the build I moved it inside and applied Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue) to the joints taking advantage of capillary action! The Cyanoacrylate melts the plastic slights and forms a checmical weld. Once glued the rack can never come apart again BUT it makes the pieces of plastic all bonded together.

This rack holds one 32qt Clear View latching Sterilite or 2 x 15qt Clear View latching Sterilite per shelf. I designed it to use one sheet of 1/2" XPVC. The dimensions are as follows:

8 pieces of 24" x 17"

6 pieces of 48" x 4"

I used 96 x #8 1.25" Metal Screws and 6 small tubes of generic Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue).

Hope this helps everyone! I am considering building these in a DIY kit and fully assembled for a reasonable cost. I wanted to put this up regardless for people comfortable with DIY work. I'm all about helping out the community :D I also have the parts to build a 50 x 6qt hatchling XPVC rack so keep watch for another DIY XPVC build coming soon!

Regards,

B

Very nice, easy to follow as well. One day I will take the plunge and get to money together to build one like this.

Very nice! How much did materials end up costing you?

Thanks for sharing B!
How are you heating? Should be fairly easy to add belly heat.

Fantastic! Thanks for making the effort to take pics and share them with us envious people...

Nice setup, Easy to follow. What did it cost you for the supplies?

Real nice:gj::gj::gj:
As questioned, what did it cost you and also did you pre-drill the screw holes?

Thanks for all the kind word!

I predrilled all the holes. The XPVC was super easy to work with.

I am into the rack $85 for the 1/2" sheet of XPVC, $6 for a box of 100 screws, $5 for three two packs of generic super glue, $40 for 20 feet of 4" Flexwatt (I have extra but wanted it that way), and $80 on the tub configuration I have. The grand total is $216!

Regards,

B

$216 is a great price considering how many shelves it has. Not to mention your not paying shipping on it either. Thanks. :gj:

Very nice looking rack and it looks like it's easy enough to assemble! I hope to build one of these in the future. Thanks for such a picture heavy post too. I'm a visual learner. :P