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Pete.:
I'm getting quite a collection of chucks for my lathe so today I thought I would knock together a simple rack from plywood to hold them. It has room for 12 but currently has just 9 spaces populated.

It's pretty basic but it does the job.

awemawson:
Very neat Pete  :thumbup:

I hope the fixings are good and strong, that could end up with some serious weight in it!

Mike E.:
I would agree with Andrew. As the shelves are put together with butt joints rather than rabbit joints, consider adding a few extra screws.

mechman48:
Nice job Pete; might I suggest you put a smallish right angle bracket in ea. corner & one in the middle of the shelves at the centre point at the back... just that little extra bit of support...   :thumbup:

George.

Pete.:
It's plenty strong enough. I got the wife to sit on it for a test :D

Joking aside - I have dowels and 3" screws holding it together and to the back-board. I also deliberately spaced the holes so the smaller chucks are in the middle of the rack but on top of all that I stood on each shelf with my 92kg weight and it never even creaked.

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