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Organizing update: the final shelving
Aug. 14th, 2009 09:41 pmI am taking a break from putting together something I purchased months ago: a bookcase designed for storing vinyl albums. It provides eight shelves of about 15 inches each in a four-by-two pattern.
I stalled on building this because I knew I'd need to prep the room before I built. This would replace the cinder block bookcase I have assembled six times, once each move since 2000. Putting up the new case would mean having some space to build it but also having the old case out of the way once I was done. There wasn't enough space for both to be in the same room without eliminating all other furniture.
Today my plans got shuffled and I was tired of being mad at myself for doing very little the last couple days. So I cleared the dining room table (it only had some magazines on it, so that took ten seconds) and shoved it against the couch. Then I unloaded my vinyl onto it. As I unloaded records, I also took apart the cinder blocks and planks and set them in the sun room. I even swept the dining room floor once I had all of the old parts out of the way.
Then the construction began. The hardest part so far has been screwing in the main bolts. I was using the small Allen wrench that came with the kit and nearly breaking my hands with it. The two bolts I had to install first were near the ground, so I kept having to take out the wrench and put it back in, then fight like the exploited workers to get the wrench around another 180 to 210 degrees.
"Say," I thought, "this would be so much easier if I had a device with a nicer handle. Something that didn't require me to take out the wrench every half-turn or so -- perhaps something with a ratchet." Then I remembered that I had been playing with that very item last night while watching The Daily Show, meaning it was sitting by my computer and that I might have the correct attachment in the tool closet. Indeed I did.
I'm almost finished with the hammering phase. I needed to take a break and revel in being done with my cinder block furniture phase. It only took me 14 years!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dobrovolets and I had built a workable cinder block shelf when we lived in Johnson City and both had more books than... okay, most high school libraries. We wound up using old phone books as spacers so that we wouldn't have shelves that were too small to use. Unfortunately the lowest level was almost useless since it was buried in the carpet. I learned from that to build a plinth level for a future shelf.
Hmm... does anyone want the parts for a well-designed cinder block bookcase? It holds hundreds of albums and has tiers! I'll even throw in the specially-cut corrugated cardboard floor protectors. If I don't get a taker here, I'll put it on Craig's List on Sunday.
-somehow I still woke up my roomie at 8 p.m., Ps/d
I stalled on building this because I knew I'd need to prep the room before I built. This would replace the cinder block bookcase I have assembled six times, once each move since 2000. Putting up the new case would mean having some space to build it but also having the old case out of the way once I was done. There wasn't enough space for both to be in the same room without eliminating all other furniture.
Today my plans got shuffled and I was tired of being mad at myself for doing very little the last couple days. So I cleared the dining room table (it only had some magazines on it, so that took ten seconds) and shoved it against the couch. Then I unloaded my vinyl onto it. As I unloaded records, I also took apart the cinder blocks and planks and set them in the sun room. I even swept the dining room floor once I had all of the old parts out of the way.
Then the construction began. The hardest part so far has been screwing in the main bolts. I was using the small Allen wrench that came with the kit and nearly breaking my hands with it. The two bolts I had to install first were near the ground, so I kept having to take out the wrench and put it back in, then fight like the exploited workers to get the wrench around another 180 to 210 degrees.
"Say," I thought, "this would be so much easier if I had a device with a nicer handle. Something that didn't require me to take out the wrench every half-turn or so -- perhaps something with a ratchet." Then I remembered that I had been playing with that very item last night while watching The Daily Show, meaning it was sitting by my computer and that I might have the correct attachment in the tool closet. Indeed I did.
I'm almost finished with the hammering phase. I needed to take a break and revel in being done with my cinder block furniture phase. It only took me 14 years!
dobrovolets and I had built a workable cinder block shelf when we lived in Johnson City and both had more books than... okay, most high school libraries. We wound up using old phone books as spacers so that we wouldn't have shelves that were too small to use. Unfortunately the lowest level was almost useless since it was buried in the carpet. I learned from that to build a plinth level for a future shelf.Hmm... does anyone want the parts for a well-designed cinder block bookcase? It holds hundreds of albums and has tiers! I'll even throw in the specially-cut corrugated cardboard floor protectors. If I don't get a taker here, I'll put it on Craig's List on Sunday.
-somehow I still woke up my roomie at 8 p.m., Ps/d
