Substitute for cinder blocks in making temporary bookshelves? - Page 5

 

mike wrote:


Too heavy for what ?  Just moving them around when making the bookshelves ?

Seems pretty silly to worry about something you dont do often enough to matter.

You can get much lighter than normal blocks, still the same size but of lighter
concrete.


The lighter blocks.


They do look pretty reasonable anyway.


Some people do use the very large plastic crates used to move
bread around in, just one book deep. The sellers of second hand
books at sales that move around do use those quite a bit, works
reasonably well, but not as good as proper bookshelves.

I make proper bookshelves with slotted square steel tubing, 1", with
aluminum flats in the slots to hold up the shelves but you do need to
be able to weld up the slotted square steel tubing unless you use the
Dexion system which has corners you hammer into the ends of the tubes.

 

They used to make those screw posts (first with a metal coil screw
then with a plastic screw). I have thousands of books in the basement
in such cases, draped with thick sheet plastic flaps to keep out the
dust.  The newer case (with plastic posts but also longer shelves) has
warped a bit.  My local lumber yard (the same one we got them from in
the 1960s and 1970s) insists these ar eno longer available. Some of
those posts were nice enough that we made a small partition for my
piano out such posts with marble shelves and stained it nicely.



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mike wrote:

I just put in ca 170 linear feet of shelves, which are supported
by wooden record boxes.  Of course, one can use milk crates too.

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