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….......--- Shelving and Workbench Pt. 1 ---

No train pictures here but hey we all need a place to store our stuff and work on it. Not sure but maybe this will help someone that needs to put up shelving that doesn't cost much, works very well and is fast to put up. It also includes a workbench if you need that.

The shelving is easy to put up with minimal tools. I have a radial arm saw and table saw but if you have neither you could have the lumber yard rip a 4 ft x 8 ft sheet of 1/2” particle board into three 16 inch wide pieces for the shelves or four 12 inch wide shelves (minus a bit for the saw cut). The 1x2's can be cut quickly with a hand saw. A drill and driver bit for the drill would finish all the tools you would need.

My attached shop is roughly 40 ft. X 40 ft. and is divided into three parts. A 12' X 13' store room with a 13' X 27' garage type room adjoining it and a main workshop area that is 27' X 40'. The larger shop area has an attached greenhouse along its 40 foot length that pretty much heats it during the winter as the greenhouse gets up to 90+ degrees any day with sun and being in the southwest that is most days.

Last year I setup a workbench and a number of shelves...

.. in the 13' X 28' garage area (shown above). During the winter this area is colder as the warm greenhouse air doesn't get to it. I tried taking hot air off the ceiling in the other area and blowing it into this area. That helped some but I still had to run a space heater if I wanted to work in the area on most winter days.

I decided I wanted to create a train workbench area in the larger shop but had a lot of car stuff in the way. I proceeded to get rid of a lot of stuff which opened up a wall that I could build shelving on along with a more permanent workbench. This will allow me to work in a larger warmer area that will also contain the main train layout.

Below are pictures that show how I built the shelving and a workbench. I've used the same method to build other shelving in all three shop areas. It is a fast cheap and efficient way to put up shelving. I put up the plywood wall, the shelving and built the workbench shown below in about 8 to 10 hours over 3-4 days as I don't put in 8 hour days any longer.

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If you have a sheetrock wall screw the 1x2's to the studs behind the sheetrock.

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