Ideas for storing stock material

[dttworld]

How do you'll store your large stock materials such as 4'x8' sheets? Thinking of building a vertical stand next to the ShopBot for sliding materials in and out. My only concern is maybe the stock could sag sideways if stored in the vertical direction versus storing it on a bunch of horizontal shelves.

I also saw a picture of someone putting a piece of plywood on the bottom supports of the ShopBot and using it as a shelf.

Thx
Danh

[zeykr]

You can often buy used pallet rack fairly reasonably. If you're short on space, you can put the first shelf high enough to have work area under it, though you'll probably then need a forklift to reach up to the large materials.

[myxpykalix]

You probably won't be using or keeping a ton of stock around so if it was me, and you weren't planning on putting a vacumn table on your bot right away i would make some shelves under the bot and store my plywood flat there. It is unused space (although for me i seem to store a lot of sawdust there:D) and you could slide your sheet goods out, lift it up and slide it onto your table pretty easily.

[khaos]

if your chip load is right the chips make excellent sheet lube. :eek: That is to say they slide nice on each other if the chips are more like chips than dust. So thats why I don't want to sweep the shop, yeah, don't want to waste all that sheet lube. Thats the ticket... :D

Flat is better than vertical.

[dttworld]

You probably won't be using or keeping a ton of stock around so if it was me, and you weren't planning on putting a vacumn table on your bot right away i would make some shelves under the bot and store my plywood flat there....

Was going to build a double decker shelf under the table with drawers until you mentioned the vaccuum table. Probably room for one shelf at the very bottom.

[dttworld]

if your chip load is right the chips make excellent sheet lube. :eek: That is to say they slide nice on each other if the chips are more like chips than dust. So thats why I don't want to sweep the shop, yeah, don't want to waste all that sheet lube. Thats the ticket... :D

Flat is better than vertical.

I could see saw dust helping but I might be cutting a lot of ABS and some aluminum. Wish I had kept the plywood from the shipping crate to block up the spaces in between the deck and side extrusions.

[Ajcoholic]

I guess it all depends upon how much you need to store and how easily you have to access it.

I buy my plywoods in lift quantities, and generally store upwards of maybe 300 to 350 sheets at a time. No way I can store that flat, as I have to sometimes sort through to find the right grain, or colour etc. Plus I have too many various species, etc.

I store everything vertical, and dont have issues with warpage.

The key is, to keep the sheet stock vertical! Not to let it lean over 30 degrees and then it will develop a warp. I have about 10 feet of wall I use to store my sheet goods, with fixed separator panels. All the material I have stays upright, and therefore stays flat. Easy to slide out the sheets I need.

AJC

[kevin]

http://www.kdunphy.com/IMG_1292.JPG

You might not see clearly I just put the sheets in front of the bot then slide them on the cart .It works amazing and simple lift

I try not to spend time moving material around

All finished sheets are stored standing up in the middle veener side etc

[myxpykalix]

Here is an idea for you. Go down to your local Dollar store and get you a couple of cheap shower curtains that you can affix to the underside edges of the spoilboard so as to direct the chips and dust down the sides and keep it from falling onto your stock below.

Another idea i had was to mount some rain gutters under your edge of spoilboard so you can sweep chips into gutter and have a bucket under the hole in the end of gutter and just brush it into hole and bucket.:eek:

[dlcw]

Here's mine for sheet goods and wood and saw blades.

Never had a problem with any sheet goods except imported junk that turned into a pretzel even when sandwiched between other sheets. Good stuff the imported plywood. :eek:

[myxpykalix]

Now there is a man who is "orginzized"....see i can't even spell it much less do it!:eek: I wish i had your space Don, nice shop:D