Thread: Pallet Racking to Shelves or Workbench

Hello All,

I have just been searching on the internet and found one approach at on eBay and it is called a "pallet rack support bar" There are also mesh shelves which have their own built-in supports.

I found a couple of YouTube clips where people have had stepped beams. I found a clip by DeepNHocK that shows lengths of "2 x 4" inch timber are cut off to span between the beams YouTube . Another clip by "DeepNHock" then shows his fitted custom made metal benchtop sheeting YouTube Each bay has its own light and independent switch - really nice!

Are there any other ways to provide extra support under a sheet of manufactured board that forms a shelf?

Kind regards
Lionel

Lionel, I have Dex as workbench and shelving.

I use Yellow tongue.

Never had a problem. I don’t run bracing.

I would screw some ribbing to the underneath of the board, maybe you can find some scrap. 25 * 25 angle iron would be my starting point.
Unless your planning a super heavy load like multiple batteries

In my shed build, I:

* When I built my workbench from dexion, for the top I just used MDF and screwed it into the main beam. I can't remember how thick the MDF was, but I could measure it up.

* I then used chip-board on the main dexion, and have various parts on the shelves - without using support braces.

* True - I wouldn't want to put an engine on these shelves, but all other parts worked fine.

* At work we have used the cross beams that you found on ebay - they work well.

* At work - we have also just attached hard-wood support beams, underneath the chip board - that fit between the main rails - when a heavy load is put on these shelves the chip board dips slightly, forcing these hard-wood pieces to touch each side of the main rails. It spreads the load and works quite well....

Cheers,
GG.

We used 19mm ply as shelving in our pallet racking.

I have Dexion pallet racking in my shed (and have just built a mezzanine floor using racking as support). Yellow tongue sheet by itself as shelves is quite sufficient to support decent loads (such as a gearbox & TC), the mesh panels from memory are rated at 500kg. Dynabolting the feet of the racks to the floor makes for a significant improvement in overall stability.

Lionel,
I was out in the shed today and had a look at my shelf loading to give you some confidence. In one bay which has two wire mesh gizzos topped with a piece of yellowtongue I have 1 x 2.25 Rover engine, 2 x BMC "B" series engines, 1 x Rover sedan twin cam engine, 1 x Disco diff, 1 x Series O/D and 1 x Disco TC. Whilst the yellowtongue obviously provides some additional strength the main reason I added it on top of the mesh was to stop sump plugs etc. getting caught. And yes, I know I'm a hoarder...
Alan

I am not sure if it helps , but Bunnings uses a lot of different middle beam combintaions to achive smaller double sided shelves for displaying smaller objects.
You may be able to copy their method and build your own as required.

Ian
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