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Shelf material

All right! With all the questions I've already asked on THAT subject, *I* can probably finally answer one!! <grin> (Disclaimer: I am not "official", but can summarize the other posts here with the best of them... :-)

Summary:

The shelf itself is a ClosetMaid 16 inch deep "SuperSlide" shelf. It is a white plastic coated "wire mesh" modular closet shelf, and looks like a flat wire grid panel, with a drop lip on the front.

There are pictures of the shelves in the PICTURES area at:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...DESC&sort=date

I've found the shelving is available in at *least* 4' and 12' lengths, if not others. The 4' length at Home Depot is:
16"x4' SuperSlide Linen Shelf
Brand: ClosetMaid
SKU #873535 $4.69 each

I'm not sure if HD carries the 12' length. Our local hardware store had the longer one, so we went with that.

Experience: If you have room, I'd definitely advise getting a 12' section, vs a 4' one. With four vertical boards and three backboards, It'll give you a three shelf assembly *without* messy joints at each divider.

Experience: The backboards are inline with each other. Mount the intermediate backboards to the vertical dividers with L-brackets on the underside of the backboards. This allows for fine adjustments and disassembly, but you won't have hardware interfering with the "game side" of the backboards.

Note that some of the dimensions of the vertical dividers were missing or incorrect in the original rules document. The correct "depth" length for the divider's baseline is *10*, NOT 6 inches. The backboard is a 47" long 1x6. The corrected shelf diagram is at:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...s=&postid=7993

Note that the backboard's position is STILL not specified in the new document. I found it is claimed to be located along a line drawn between the top back (upper left) corner of the diagram and the back edge of the shelf, with an unspecified gap that *should* work out to be somewhere around 4" set between the lower edge of the backboard and the shelf. ("Wide enough to be a significant gap, but just tight enough to not let the jug drop through...")

Does all this sound about right, Mike? <grin>

Hope this helps!
- Keith McClary, Huron High Rookie Team 830
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