Usually, over the years of life, a large amount of equipment accumulates, which must be compactly and preferably aesthetically placed. All equipment should be nearby, so the best placement option would be an equipment rack.
Buying it from a store is much easier than making it yourself, but store racks are usually a TV cabinet with a VCR shelf. Now this is no longer relevant, since modern TVs are hung on the wall, and VCRs are long gone.
You can have 2-3 units of different equipment, and those who like to listen to cool music can have up to 6-7 of all kinds of devices. By making a do-it-yourself equipment rack, you can safely arrange everything that is available in the apartment.
Materials and Rack Requirements
Electrical equipment has a significant weight, so the shelf must be strong. A lot of wires come out of the back panel, which means it should be open on the back. Since the equipment rack is the centerpiece of any living room, it must be beautiful and original.
You can make it from different materials. Weld from strong metal corners, assemble from a galvanized profile. Make a stand forequipment can be made of plywood, fiberboard, MDF and wood. An interesting option would be a combination of materials. The legs can be metal, wooden, plastic tubes. It is good if the wheels are installed from below, since dust will collect behind the rack, where the wires are located in a bundle. By moving the shelf on wheels, you can wipe the floor and check the wiring. Very comfortable.
Double rack
In order to make this set of two, you need to have softwood boards, wooden beams, stain, varnish, metal legs and wood screws, sandpaper, wood glue D3, screws. First you need to draw a drawing of the future design. Since the TV is located on a rectangular shelf, its length should protrude a few centimeters beyond the edges of the screen on each side. Boards are cut to the desired length for two rectangular shelves and three square ones. Then the side planks are smeared with carpentry glue and tightened with clamps until completely solidified. At a temperature of more than 8 degrees, the glue dries for about 40 minutes. If the temperature is lower, then the glue will not be taken, this cannot be done. It is best to seal and leave the workpiece all night.
Finished shields are carefully felt with sandpaper No. 80, then No. 120, at the end No. 180. Everything is covered with stain. Choose the color of your choice. Then covered with a layer of soil. After drying, rub again with sandpaper No. 180, as the pile will rise from the ground. The last step will be varnishing.
Next we cook square woodenbars. Under the upper shelves, a corner is cut with the letter G in half a tree, under the middle and lower shelves - with the letter P, also in half a tree. After trying the shelves on the legs and drilling holes for clamping with screws, we repeat the painting procedure for the legs. After assembling the shelves, turn them upside down and fasten the metal legs. The wooden equipment stand is ready.
Stand with speaker stands
The principle of making a shelf is very similar to the previous model, only the rack consists of 4 shelves, if the width allows, then the shields can not be glued. Shelves are also cut into legs in half a tree, only they are painted black. You can take any other, according to your desire. The rack stands directly on wooden legs. To prevent the floor from scratching and to be able to move the rack, felt is glued on them, cut to size.
For speaker stands, cut out 2 large and 2 small squares. They are attached to the beam with screws. Rack for equipment and with two stands for speakers is ready.
Combination rack
The easiest and fastest to assemble equipment rack is made from cut-to-size chipboard sheets, preferably laminated, pipes of the same length and round flanges. You will also need a few meters of edges, an iron, 3x16 screws, a screwdriver. In workshops for sawing chipboard, you give the necessary dimensions to the master, and he makes accurate cuts on a professional machine. There you can also order gluing the edge, but it will cost an order of magnitude more expensive. If you want to save money, then at home with a simple hot ironvery quickly stick it yourself.
After the chipboard sheets are delivered home, the assembly of the rack begins. First, the places for screwing the flanges are carefully marked so that the rack is symmetrical. When everything is marked, we get to work. Flanges sit on the screws, 6 pieces on each shelf. On the two middle shelves, this is done on both sides. 4 wheels for furniture are screwed to the bottom shelf to the bottom. Then the tubes are inserted, the next shelf is put on top, etc.
Faux Aging Stand
Now furniture with aging made of thick "brutal" boards is very fashionable. We cut out identical boards 50 mm wide for size 4, for the sidewalls - 2 small rectangles. The rack is assembled on dowels (round sticks). To do this, first clearly measure and drill holes on the sidewalls and on the shelves themselves, not through and through. Ready-made wooden dowels are sold in the store. Usually they have a diameter of 8 mm, but there are also 12 mm. We take thicker, since the shelf is voluminous. First, everything is assembled without glue.
After trying on, all the details are taken apart, and the most difficult part begins - antique painting. To do this, we take a turbine, put a metal brush on it and process wood. The brush removes the soft layers and leaves the hard ones. The brush on the impeller is replaced with a plastic one and small burrs are removed. Then paint with stain. Then comes sanding, but not much. Then we cover with a layer of soil, clean it with sandpaperrisen pile, at the end we open it with varnish. After drying, the assembly of the rack on the dowels begins, already with glue. Wheels are screwed to the bottom.
Original do-it-yourself wooden equipment rack
This shelf requires a tilted circular saw to cut the triangular legs for the shelf. Glued panels are cut to the size of future shelves. The legs are glued to them on the dowels already known to us so that the joints are not visible. In order for the legs to stand stably, a groove is made with a milling cutter on one side and on the other. The resulting rack is completely collapsible. It can be made up of 4 parts as desired or placed side by side (2+2).
It's very easy to make a do-it-yourself equipment rack using the photos presented on the site. We wish you good luck and creative success!
