This may be off topic enough to get deleted but since all of us use magazines of one type or another for insprationI thought it would be a good try I had a little time today so I whipped these up. I used some s**** sheet metal and 3/16 rod. The first one was 6 1/8" x 91/2". Then I measured a magazine from top back to bottom front it measured 13", so I bent a rod 13"x 61/8" x 13. Then I cut a piece 9 3/4" for the upright in the back. I welded the upright on the sheet metal first and the the bent piece just laid on top of it and was tacked on the top and the sheet metal. Made 5 of these in 30 minutes and even made one double width. Now all the magazines are nice and neat. I only have a few bucks in each them, like I said the metal was s**** stuff and I get the rods off a guy here at the fleamarket, he sells a bundles of 3/16, 1/4. 5/15 for $10.00. Of course now I have to make a shelf to set them on.
I tried to figure out how to keep mine organized. When it was time to move from the house I had lived in for 40 years I gave mine away....
I use the cardboard type holders. Similar in size to the ones you made. They got kind of pricy so now I make my own. The shelving units I have hold 6 per shelf with 5 shelves per shelving unit. All my magazines are organised by ***le, year and month.
"Ultimate Magazine Rack" That's a seriously Numb backside waiting to happen... To the OP, that's a handy "industrial" alternative to the one's I've been buying at Ikea.
An old breakfast cereal box cut diagonally across the middle will yield two magazine holder boxes - learned that trick from a friend of mine over 20 years ago, but haven't had cereal boxes since buying bagged cereal, and now that I'm on the 'wheatbelly' diet I'm even cutting that out after the wife's shown me what processed foods are doing to me.
I have my car magazines organized in cardboard boxes from 1957 on up my the years written on the outside of each box and then stacked up. When I look through the old magazines I remember the day's when they were full of interesting stories and you could learn how to do body work. In those day's there was a great deal more content and a lot less adverti*****ts and today it's the other way around. As a kid I would sit in the variety store for hours reading each magazine from the front page to the back page twice. When the owner of the store asked me if I was ever going to purchase one I told him I had not money!!!!!!!! I was about 11 years old and he told me that if I came in everyday after school and took out the garbage and cleaned the floors he would give me a magazine and in those day's they cost .25 cents so that is what I did and today I still have hundreds of them. I started doing bodywork at about 13 years old for the same guy on his family car. I also learned at an early age there are others way of getting things when you have no money!!! Jimbo
Simple 2x4 racks to hold the cardboard holders. Seems like the cardboard holders were getting a little difficult to find, reasonably priced anyway, and I'm years behind on filing them.
I ran across some plastic magazine organizers at a local office supply that was going out of business probably 20 years ago and bought every one they had for a buck each. I have also used laundry detergent boxes before they started puting it in smaller boxes,,they kept the magazines in good shape,smelled fresh and no self respecting paper eating bug got near them. HRP
IKEA has magazine holders in numerous colors. Inexpensive and keep the magazine organized and available. Very much like the plastic and cardboard ones pictured. My wife has black and black and white striped ones in her garage. I have black ones on a wall shelving unit that I bought from IKEA. I'd shoot a picture but can't figure out how to post it. Sorry.
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