1. This equipment rack is way too big, bulky, and ugly for my new studio space.
Plus, I really bought it for a time when all my stuff (including my stereo, game systems, VCR/DVD/BluRay, turntable, etc all needed to live in a closet in a single room. Now, all that stuff is getting scattered, and this rack doesn't even fit in the closet (future posts will make clear why I want to stuff my rack gear in a closet at all).
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| For scale |
So I went and found some scraps from the bulkhead I removed over the holiday, spent about 8 minutes with the miter saw and the drill press, 3 minutes with a handheld rotary sander, just to get the splinters out, and another 12 attaching and leveling the equipment. It ain't too pretty, but it is solid, and it works:
What I love about this project is that it is really incredibly easy with a few common tools, and it is the cheapest sturdy thing in the world. I just cut a 15 degree mitre in two 2x2s, then lined them up with each other on the mitre saw to cut their square ends to the exact same length. I trimmed the two bases the same way (side by side on the mitre saw) from the scrap cutting down the rails. Then I simply drilled a pocket hole down through each rail at a 15 degree angle (did this on the drill press, but a kreg jig would have been faster) so the screw would land perpendicular to the base piece. Then I attached the rail to the base with a Kreg blue screw using a square bit in a hand driver. I am a little blown away by how strong that joint is.
The two bases/rails are only held to each other by the rack gear. It's all steel and aluminum, so it is fine that way.
I also hung the projector screen.
And put down a rug
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| These many tools were not used in the installation of this beautiful, possibly non-square (non parallelogram, even) rug. |
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