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Knockdown drying rack

The drawing shows my solution to the problem of stacking freshly painted trim without taking up all the floor space in my shop. It’s a drying rack composed of individual standards that can be stacked atop one another to provide varying amounts of rack space. With the components illustrated here, you end up with a 2-in. space between the crossbars of each standard.

I’ve stacked as much as 750 lin. ft. of base and casing on this setup by going 15 standards high (be sure to add cross bracing as the stacks get taller). Just start at the bottom, fill with trim, and then add another pair of standards—no messing with sliding wet trim in and out. By cantilevering the work beyond the standards, one set can accommodate 16-ft. material with no problem.

Harry Bishop, Middletown, MO

From Fine Homebuilding 182, pp. 24 November 1, 2006

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