My home garage shop is really tight (who's isn't - right?). I don't really have a good place to store metal stock. So I was looking around for some place I could use. I have a big I-beam that runs the length of my shop. So I got thinking about how I could use that, by making suspended brackets. I grabbed a yellow sticky and scribbled this idea out. It would be two pieces of 1/4" x 1" or 1.5" flat stock, bent and bolted together to suspend from the I-beam. I'm not talking about storing a LOT of stock, just maybe 50 lbs worth. I'd use a piece of all-thread just below the beam with nuts on each side of the flat bar to lock it in place. Then use a bolt vertically through the two pieces at the bottom to hold it together. I could weld maybe 4 tabs along the bottom to use as dividers to keep things organized a little. I'd probably make 3 or 4 of them.
Here's my yellow sticky drawing. What do you think? Trying to keep it as simple as possible. Thanks, appreciate your thoughts.
Here's my yellow sticky drawing. What do you think? Trying to keep it as simple as possible. Thanks, appreciate your thoughts.