Re: Racks (Re: Yet another beginner..)

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

My first rack was a plastic milk crate. Lots of people used the 
square ones for holding LP's but I found a longer one that was just 
perfect for my few U's worth of intermittent gear. I worried that 
someday some responsible dairy worker would see the "property of 
Lucerne" label on my stage rig and call the authorities. Fortunately 
we drew the size of crowd that made this statistically highly 
unlikely, and I lucked out. They never caught me tearing off the tags 
on my queen-size sound baffles either.

Just recently I noticed that $9.95 "LACK" end tables from Ikea have 
legs with exactly the right spacing for rack gear. Taking the 
ultimate low-fi approach of mounting the gear right onto the table 
legs with wood screws, this must be the world's cheapest rack you can 
buy. In lots of different colors no less.

Totally useless for travel and hard to reconfigure without metal 
threaded holes, but for a bunch of gear I never move, these things 
actually work and look just fine.

-Alex S.



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>At 05:48 PM 9/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
>  >Any suggestions on efficient ways of racking, like are there
>  >mini-ErectorSets™ to build a custom stack ("plumber's tape"? :-)   
>Like,
>  >how would you start racking in a small way?