Let's make a lumber rack. Hi I'm AJ and you're watching Woodified!
The lumber rack is made from two by fours and
EMT conduit. I cut the conduit into 16 inch sections using my angle grinder.
Once the pieces were cut I use the side of the angle grinder disc to debur the ends of the conduit.
You could also use a belt sander or a disk sander.
I bought 8-foot
2x4 studs and cut them in half. I clamped a two by fours together
so I could lay out the holes for the conduit racks. I used Jay Bates free plans check out his video.
I put a link to his video in the description below.
I measured up from the bottom four inches and then every 11 inches thereafter.
I used a marking gauge to mark the center of the two by fours.
Then I came back with a punch to give my spade bit a nice starting divot to keep it from wandering around.
I used my protractor to set a 10 degree angle.
My drill press is too small to fit a 2x4 on its edge
angle that 10 degrees with
the big ol spade bit in it so I move the drill press table out of the way
and I rigged up this quick and dirty jig with some scrap wood, some hot glue and some clamps.
I thought if I could get the hole started straight that I could finish them off by hand and wouldn't have any
problems.
I'm using 3/4 inch EMT conduit for the racks.
A 10-foot length of conduit cost me nine dollars and ninety nine cents plus tax, and I bought three pieces.
For some reason I wasn't paying enough attention to all the directions that the
spade bit could wander I could go forward back left right as a result
I started to drill out the side of the 2x4.
Turns out the spade bit will not guide itself if you start the hole with your drill press. With that lesson learnt I
continued the boring work. I did think to add a green piece of tape as a depth gauge.
The holes are three inches in depth into the edge of the 2x4. The conduit is
3/4 inch conduit however the outer diameter is just under
15
sixteenths of an inch. I was able to find a 15 sixteenth inch
spade bit at my local hardware store.
Marking the stud locations on the wall that must be the, not that must be, that is that's my worst
job. I hate
marking the stud locations. I usually get it wrong.
Some of the holes I drilled into the two by fours were slightly off.
But it's not bad enough to make much of a difference when I drilled the holes I was
consistently off in the same direction,
so it worked out pretty good.
Here, I'm measuring the location of the two lag bolts that will go into each of the two by fours.
Next I drilled the pilot holes for the bolts.
My bit was not long to drill through the 2x4 and all the way into the stud in the wall.
So what I did is I had to move the 2x4 out of the way and continue to drill the pilot holes.
My shop is a small shop, so I decided to hang the lumber rack up on the wall.
This way I have room underneath for some tools. I also have some room for a 4-foot wide
sheet of plywood.
Here I've drilled my pilot hole into a drywall screw.
So I got rid of that screw move it down and then finished my pilot hole and then
screwed in the leg bolt.
In addition to the two leg bolts in each of the two by fours
I also went and put screws into each hole before putting the conduit in place.
You may have noticed I was using
my cordless drill to put the screws in place however for the leg bolts I switched over to my impact driver
to drive those lag bolts into place.
If you don't have an impact driver a socket wrench would work to get those leg bolts installed.
I bought my first impact driver when I was building my privacy fence.
I'll put a link to my fence build project in the description below. Please check it out!
Here you can see the strength test of my lumber rack.
I used a mallet to tap the conduit into the holes you'll notice
one or two of the pipes are a little crooked that's because I
drilled out the side of the 2x4 a little bit.
Once all the pipes were installed. I started loading up the lumber rack.
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