Wood rack questions

[Gus]

I want to build a wood rack. The questions

What is a good wood for using wood screws for mounting the 19 inch gear? I was thinking of gluing a 1 x 1 to the edge of a plywood rack. Maple, Poplar etc?

Would it be better to use a plywood piece glued to the body mounted like a L and using TEE nuts behind and machine screws to mount the 19" stuff.

 

[Scenaria]

pickup some rack rail and attatch the rail to your rack... screwing the 19 inch stuff into wood will just lead to stripping...

 

[jrmintz]

Gus,

I have plywood racks with hard Maple rails. The rails are 3/4" by 1" with the narrow edge facing the front and taking the gear screws. The rails are recessed 1/8" so the gear is more or less flush with the plywood sides. I use regular #6 x 1 1/4" sheet rock screws and countersunk nylon washers. If you don't shift gear around too much and don't overtighten the screws it's fine. I leave a quarter inch between each piece of gear for ventilation and chassis ground isolation.

 

[Gus]

Thanks

I think I will try maple

I wanted wood for hum isolation.

Steve you gave me a good Idea I could cut the metal rail to fit each piece and keep thet section isolated for the others.

 

[Scenaria]

they make washers that fit between the rack gear and rails for isolation...

 

[Guest]

Metal rack rails would be the most useful if you change things around much. Machine screw inserts (like T-nuts and such) would work great but would be a pain to set up. Lastly, using wood screws directly into a piece of hardwood would work very well as long as you use good screws and don't over tighten. There are simple ways to fix a stripped screw hole, but we won't get into that yet.

Make sure you use hardwood for rails. It tends to be less likely to split, fracture or separate Poplar is light, inexpensive and wirely available so it is a good choice. Maple may be best but is mot easy to find everywhere.

 

[Ethan]

Gus,
Humfrees

Forgive me for posting a MF link
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_id/36444

There are reviews there of people that have difficulty getting them on... From personal experience, it's not that bad. A little patience and meticulousness is all it takes.

 

[alk509]

I got a nice wooden rack from the nice folks at nice-racks.com. They'll do custom stuff too.

Peace,
Al.

 

[Emperor-TK]

Gus,

I have a couple of table-top wood racks that I'm not using. I'd be glad to let them go for very low cost. Maybe even a barter (I could use some help with troubleshooting old RS PZM mic mod that I did that didn't come out right). :grin:

Shoot me a PM or phone call if your interested. The racks are 16 space angled racks (home made of course). You can see them in the last picture here:

http://www.emediatransfer.com/G9diy.html

BTW, I am finishing up my rewiring today and my home-studio is back up and running.

-Chris

 

[Smoke]

how about someone post pics of a DIY rack case, or maybe s rack case just to get ideas from

im keen on ubilding one too

 

[nacho459]

[quote author="Smoke"]how about someone post pics of a DIY rack case, or maybe s rack case just to get ideas from[/quote]

Almost everything wood in my studio I built, I just use Birch, It's cheep and leftovers can be used to build speaker cabs.

(to the right) One of my racks, basically a couple rectangles with rack rails.
http://www.459audio.com/homerooms.jpg
I built the doors on the left side too but not the chair. :wink:

The counter and cabinet the AG440 is in / on and the rack behind the chair.

And all the diffusers on the walls and celling.

 

[soundguy]

wow, thats a real nifty cabinet for the 440! I bet you could clean up pretty good selling those!

nice and compact.

I keep mine in a quicklock roll around.

dave

 

[longsoughtfor]

>how about someone post pics of a DIY rack case, or maybe s rack case just to get ideas from

Lots of wood racks & Desks here:

http://www.lsfsound.com/homemade.php

Kevin

 

[Guest]

it's on my list of things to do (I have being using the expensive £100 quiklok metal ones on castors (i have 5 of them) - but I don;t like them so they are int he garage)

Here is my list of favlinks
http://www.homerecording.com/make_rack.html
http://www.kymatasound.com/studio_construction.htm (go to the bottom of the page)
I also have a 10 year old copy of David Mellors book..
How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio
which has some diagrams in of how to do it

 

[kato]

i made an 8-space rack with no instructions, just ad-lib using:

1 piece of plywood cut into 4 pieces (for the 4 sides)
2 rack rails from mid atlantic
some metal "L" brackets from East Asheville Hardware (or any hardware store that isn't Lowes.)
grey carpet covering from partsexpress.com
3M spray adhesive to attach the covering
some wood screws

It actually looks pretty decent - however, the cat goes crazy over the grey covering. He uses it as a claw sharpener which is annoying and there's pretty much no way to stop him.

Kato

 

[nacho459]

[quote author="soundguy"]wow, thats a real nifty cabinet for the 440! I bet you could clean up pretty good selling those![/quote]

Yeah it came in this big roll around thing...

actually this is the same machine,

but once I decided to put it in my studio I had to get creative, do some geometry, and cram as much as possible. It's kinda hard to get reels on the deck, but once it's on it's there. I also had to cut vents into the counter so the machine wouldn't get too hot.

Now I just need to figure out how to fit a 24 track into my studio. :shock: