Fantastic work Cliff!
Page 4.5!
edit: I’m always screwing up radius and diameter
Thanks for all the kind words guys, y’all’ve made my day! 
Rooster, great Muppet snippet, haha! thank you Sir! (Not sure what all that meant in your last lines, but thanks anyway 
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Cliff Jennings said:
Thanks for all the kind words guys, y’all’ve made my day!
Rooster, great Muppet snippet, haha! thank you Sir! (Not sure what all that meant in your last lines, but thanks anyway
Cliff, it’s ok… Rooster doesn’t know either, it was just his claws typing… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
The next part of this under-deck storage project is shelving, in a corner against the basement wall. Here’s the gist of the design.
The corner part will be a drip-proof cabinet to stow the DCC equipment and other sensitive items. To its left are three shelves for winter-time storage of props & small buildings. To the left of that will be a rack for lengths of whatever long stock needs a home.
I had decided a while ago to blow a vacation week on this, just to getter done. Monday was cutting all the pieces, Tuesday pre-assembling the frames, and Wednesday was installing the anchor boards against the concrete wall (and fixing a major plumbing issue in the house…). Today I finished the anchor boards and got the main framing done.
Cheers,
===>Cliffy
you are not saving on wood, are you?
Korm Kormsen said:
you are not saving on wood, are you?
Not really. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
The 2x4’s are cheap and strong.
Here’s a few other things I’ve used. 1x4’s are more expensive and tend to split when end-screwed; and the warp more. I could have used fence picket stock (1.25" square), but that splits easily too. I’ve also used plain 2x12 planks and brackets, but they can warp too, and brackets are expensive. So I decided to go with 2x4’s.
I almost got this shelving thing done, but it’s been raining quite a bit today, so I’ll finish up some other time. Here’s how it’s looking.
Cliff
are you sure, that this are shelves for trains? not bunkbeds for visitors?
now i know, why you cut off the upper part of your background.
will you leave it open, or put doors?
I like this better Joe than the button!
What Sean said(or was it Animal)…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Hey Sean and Ken, thanks, HAha!
Korm, you crack me up. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)No, the shelves will stay open, and contain plastic lidded bins for props & small buildings. It’s not that big, so 12"w x 11"h x whatever long is the max bin size. My wife has expressed an interest in making little scenes, with figures & etc. glued to acrylic sheet. So that’s an example of what would go in the bins for off-season storage.
It’s nice and sunny today, so I was able to take a better shot of the control cabinet. This has the in-process doors set aside, showing the interior.
This corner cabinet will be the home for the DCC equipment, X10 modules, basic test gear, track maintenance tools & supplies, whatever needs to really stay dry. After the doors are hung, I need to put in the wiring (120v GFCI-protected receptacles, DCC 24v bus output, CAT5 for the antennas, etc.).
Thanks for viewing guys,
===>Cliffy
i think, i envy you a little bit. you build so orderly.
my constructions always have that provisional - for a week or so - look.
and i’m still in love with your choice of color. this blue looks cool (in both senses of the word) and the blue with the dark wood gives a nice contrast.
Thanks very much Korm, very kind words Sir. Also, the color combo is gradually growing on me as well. To your point, when I walked my wife through it on Sunday afternoon, she actually said the place seemed “cheery,” and that an all-natural color scheme (brown, tan) would look less that way. So for an area that only toads and black widow spiders used to love, I was really happy to hear that!
I’m also glad the surplus plastic wasn’t pink… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
GRRR!
please don’t “Sir” me.
Yes Sir. Sorry Sir. It won’t happen again Sir. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Outch…
Korm, well I could call you Ma’am.
Its kind of been programmed into me after 23 some odd years of customer service. I don’t even think about it anymore. My boss’s boss HATES it when I call him Sir, but even though I know that, it just slips out…
Korm, I’m with David (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I appreciated what you wrote, and there’s only so many ways to say that, haha! It was a tossup for me between “Sir,” “Mon bon Frere,” and “Dudus Maximus.” (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
well, “mon bon frére” should be reserved for Fred Mills, while “dudus maximus” has a certain ring to it…
but i would like korm. just korm (to steal from the dead, but unforgotten)
if i get titled Sir, or down here - Señor, i always feel, as if i were 65 years old. (and i’m only 64 and a half…)
Korm, the first time a waitress called me Sir, I was taken aback. The first time the little girl at the Dunkin Donuts gave me a senior discount, I was slightly offended. Its the price I pay for not dying sooner. No, I don’t want to die yet. I am just saying, if you live long enough, these things happen.