That is fixable relatively cheep by visiting Lowes or Home Depot and asking to cut certain size of the bottom plywood.
storing vinyl, reducing damage over many years
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I bought 3 of these that I have stacked successfully one on top of each other and filled with albums:
http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RR-OAK-UN
(I didn't buy it directly there, I bought it on ETSY, but the etsy link no longer appears valid, so I am referencing this web link).
I was basically happy with everything, I did the assembly, everything is solid.
My question: will the lack of any support in the middle area of the albums, over many years, cause damage to the albums? I went through and find a certain percent of my albums were drooping down through damaged covers, so for now I have removed these. I don't know, some might say this is paranoid, but if they sit there for 10-20-30 years and ultimately some of them over time are damaged, it would bother me, so I figured I'd ask the question now.
I bought 3 of these that I have stacked successfully one on top of each other and filled with albums:
http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RR-OAK-UN
(I didn't buy it directly there, I bought it on ETSY, but the etsy link no longer appears valid, so I am referencing this web link).
I was basically happy with everything, I did the assembly, everything is solid.
My question: will the lack of any support in the middle area of the albums, over many years, cause damage to the albums? I went through and find a certain percent of my albums were drooping down through damaged covers, so for now I have removed these. I don't know, some might say this is paranoid, but if they sit there for 10-20-30 years and ultimately some of them over time are damaged, it would bother me, so I figured I'd ask the question now.
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Unless you are REALLY into the unfinished wood look , check out your local Ikea store . They have some stands that are quite good for record storage . They are sturdy and made of plastic in a few different colors for less money . You can get different combinations of the square storage pieces in groups of 2 ,4 ,8 and 16 per unit . Each cubicle can easily hold 60 albums in the preferred upright direction . One 16 cubicle stand can easily hold a thousand albums and it is assembled as a one piece stand . Accessible both from the front and back with a solid shelf supporting the bottoms of the albums . Probably a matter of form vs function . Mine are stored in the guest room . If yours are out in the public area of the house then you may want to have a nice 'finished' wood piece of furniture on display . |
Thanks for all the ideas and responses. I'll see how things look once the boards arrive and I try to correct the wrong. My main concern is that unless someone says something in a way that will get through to the seller, who is here: http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RR-OAK-UN it is possible that over the next several decades hundreds of thousands of vinyl albums, or more, will be damaged by their shelves. |
I would have considered buying one of these (a variant from the same seller that has the supportive bottom built in) if only I'd known about them before. I bought on etsy where these didn't seem to be there, as far as I knew. http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/products.asp?dept=331 |
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