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?

 

[stevetheplumber]

ive always found the pigeon hole racks pretty useless as you either cant get enough in or you cant see whats inthere best solution ive found is to use storage boxes on shelves angled down at the back to stop them moving, old f and e tanks are good for traps and plastic fittings

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

ive always found the pigeon hole racks pretty useless as you either cant get enough in or you cant see whats inthere best solution ive found is to use storage boxes on shelves angled down at the back to stop them moving, old f and e tanks are good for traps and plastic fittings

I was thinking of buying the pigeon hole ones and making up the other racks like you suggest and using plastic boxes.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Cheers for the input guys, some good ideas to "mull" over:banghead:

 

[glenno1]

False floors are ok but can be a pain when someone parks behind you

 

[Terry_the_piper]

What van are running? I pinched an excellent idea from my mate. Any van with sliding door. Build box deep enough to take your tool boxes and full height of door opening. Shelve out. Means all tools & stuff can be accessed from kerb. Then rear doors of my med wheelbase Tran will take materials/junk/scrap without trapping the necessary gear. Also having had a full rocket tube of 22 and 15 copper swiped off the roof rack, new rocket tube went into back of van. Just make sure I don't back up to a wall if I need a full length of copper out. (Well I have forgotten occasionally) Also 40l plastic storage bins for waste fittings are useful and they can go high up on tool box racking as they don't weigh much. Just a few ideas there.

 

[vern]

I really need to sort my van out lol!

 

[TBServices]

I really need to sort my van out lol!

Me too. It's a mess.

 

[Terry_the_piper]

Don't you hate it when the week is all late finishes and 'just chuck it in the back of the van' style pack up. All weekend taken up with digging it out!

 

[TBServices]

I like that idea of building a box for my sliding door. Just need time to figure it out.

 

[smtplumbing]

allright bud this is my transit

 

[lame plumber]

I like that idea of building a box for my sliding door. Just need time to figure it out.

means you cant get at any thing to the front of the van though, unless you hinge the whole thing to swing out!

 

[TBServices]

means you cant get at any thing to the front of the van though, unless you hinge the whole thing to swing out!

Unless like me, you have TWO sliding doors. Comes standard on superior german vans you know.

 

[Terry_the_piper]

Keep the back tidy and everything is accessible. Tried to upload some picks of mine but phone and laptop aren't talking to each other.
My longest tool box is about 650mm so made the side racking about 700mm deep, so it doesn't take too much off the width. I can get 1700 bath in the back no trouble and the full sanitary pack as well. I inherited some steel racking at a previous van swop and that has been modded to fit every van since. To keep things light I used offcuts of Talon trunking as shelf dividers. Imagination and plagiarism is the key.