Pre made ply racking

[Ch4 plumbing]

Has anyone paid for ply racking or does everyone just make it themselves?
Or is the mental stuff worth the expense and extra weight?

 

[Roger Welton]

Always made my own so you get exactly what you want.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

I've never bothered with racking but had enough of crawling all over my tools, had a look online and was thinking I could probably do it myself, do you use 15mm ply or bigger?

 

[Roger Welton]

Ive used 18mm in the past.

 

[gassafe]

I've never bothered with racking but had enough of crawling all over my tools, had a look online and was thinking I could probably do it myself, do you use 15mm ply or bigger?

I only ever used 12mm stuff, but I use a frame to take the weight etc and ply for shelves & fronts etc

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

I was thinking of using 15mm ply glued and screwed?
ideally I won't to make something to fit around my Van vault.

 

[gassafe]

I was thinking of using 15mm ply glued and screwed?
ideally I won't to make something to fit around my Van vault.

Iv got a vault too! As good as they are, they are big! I retro fitted my vault, but will fit it in around racking on my next van

 

[gassafe]

I look forward too the after pics

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Mines behind the bulkhead but like you say it's huge, I'm trying to buy a different van at the moment and want to resite the vault and sort racking out to maximise space.

Photos........give me a month!

 

[lame plumber]

I prefer the made to measure metal racking which seems to be same if not lighter than all the ply required. My latest van came racked out and only need a bit of sorting to suit me and is a mix of ply and metal with lots of dramwers and storage. took me a while to find the van online and had to go abroad to Wales to get it.

 

[Ermintrude]

Build a false floor in van so u can slide items under it then use some 3/4 iron tube and 10mm threaded bar to fix vault down. 3/4 is to space vault off of floor and it also makes it difficult to cut bolts.

 

[P J F PLUMBING]

I bought the kit from eBay direct fit very good

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Build a false floor in van so u can slide items under it then use some 3/4 iron tube and 10mm threaded bar to fix vault down. 3/4 is to space vault off of floor and it also makes it difficult to cut bolts.

I was thinking of building a false floor so I could get my steps out of the way, good idea regarding the 3/4" pipe I'll use that for sure.

 

[Ermintrude]

Also 9mm ply fixed to 25mm aluminium angle iron by large head rivets lasts a lot longer than ply screwed in. Use rivets as they don't come loose as easily.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

I bought the kit from eBay direct fit very good

How long have you had them?
i was thinking I might buy the small pigeon hole rack and do the rest myself, but depends if they will last.