Well here it is folks, all finished! My homemade adjustable hi-fi rack. Took a bit of work and had to rebuy a couple of bits, but it's now in situ with my current hardware sitting in it, one thing left to buy between now and the end of the year is a digital to analog converter. Yes I know the telly is not in the centre but there's practically no room for it, so that's where it had to go.
This is what you need to build one.
Four lengths of threaded rod, I chose M12 thickness because that's the thickest you can buy in a bricks and mortar shop.
Four M12 domed nuts or nut caps cost NIL! The bloke I got them from let me have them for nothing.
24 M12 nuts and 32 M12 washers. I got these from an old-fashioned hardware store for 12p each. You can buy a bag of 50 of M12 nuts from Toolstation for just over four pounds. You can buy the penny washers a bag of 10 from the same place for £1.50 so that's £6. The domed nuts you can buy from Toolstation as well and in a pack of 10 for £5.20.
The feet I bought from a third party seller on Amazon, they were imported from Germany £20.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075CVX2QW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
The rubber washers I bought from a place called bolt world, I needed 32 at a cost of 10p each plus postage, total cost a tenner.
The wood. It was two pieces of 1220mm x 610mm x18mm exterior ply.
Because B&Q have a wood sheet cutting saw I bought it from there. Word of advice, I wouldn't do that if I was you. The plywood wasn't particularly good quality, I had to glue one shelf because the layers on one shelf had come apart. I had it cut to 610mm x 500mm x 4.
I didn’t varnish the shelves. I sanded all the sharp edges, then applied boiled Linseed Oil diluted with White spirit 50/50, let it dry for a couple of days. Finished off with Furniture wax (My mum had some, but I suggest a tin of Briwax, as you can get it in different colours)
Here is what it cost me.
Rod = £12.
Nuts, washers and rubber washers £18.20
Feet = £20.
4 Shelves of ply cut to size = £40.
Boiled Linseed Oil = £8
13mm wood drill bit (buy a drill bit 1mm thicker than the rod, it makes things much easier lining the rod up with the holes, and there’s less chance of damaging the shelves.) = £2
Total = about £100.
It did cost me more than that though, I had to buy more threaded rod because the original plan was to buy 2 lengths of rod and cut them in half, the rack wasn’t tall enough so I had to buy 4 1m lengths and cut them to 750mm each. Buy more nuts and washers than you need as I lost some in the building process.
I did think about using a solid wood Kitchen Worktop instead of 18mm ply but that would have more than doubled the cost.
Overall I’m quite pleased with how its gone, I now have room for a DAC when I get round to buying one.
