DIY Equipment Drying Rack

[robin640 0]

Just wondering if you guy / gal's have good instructions to build my own Equipment Drying Rack? Wet Gear Equipment Rack, http://www.puckshop.com/wetgearrack.html, looks pretty good but is is $40 plus shipping.

Thanks

[Grinder 2]

Save the $40! I made a decent one out broken stick handles I picked up at the rink. I'll post a pic of it tomorrow. Cost me $5 for some screws, plus about 30 min of my time.

[Jason Harris 31]

It's easy to make one.

I drilled a half-inch hole at the top a thirty-inch long dowel that was an inch wide, a second half-inch hole going through the middle of the wider dowel in a perpendicular direction to the top hole, and a half-inch hole through the bottom of the dowel that was parallel to the top hole. I then inserted half-inch dowels and glued them into place; the top and bottom dowels were parallel to each other, while the middle dowel went in the opposite direction.

I then put an eyehook into the ceiling of my garage, another eyehook into the top of the dowel and hung it from the ceiling of my garage. Last, I put a smaller eyehook at the bottom of the main dowel to hang my helmet.

You can use different width dowels.

[masterpirate13 0]

i have built some out of pvc pipe in my shop. The parents like them but not the price tag, so i basically tell them the pieces of pvc pipe to buy and i put it together for them. It works out really well and it really doesn't take too long.

[fatwabbit 93]

save the money.

Made one out of an old hat rack that one of my neighbours threw out. Strapped a few old broken sticks horizontally and voila....

works great... you can make your own, doesnt make sense to spend good money like that. Think of the stuff you can buy for that $40 plus shipping

[ktang 34]

Another vote for "Save the money". Also made one myself.

[robin640 0]

Please post a picture if you have a home made drying rack. Probally going to go the PVC route on this one. I will be using the rack in my son's bedroom with the ceiling fan on during the day.

Thanks

[Chadd 916]

Just wondering if you guy / gal's have good instructions to build my own Equipment Drying Rack? Wet Gear Equipment Rack, http://www.puckshop.com/wetgearrack.html, looks pretty good but is is $40 plus shipping.

Thanks

I've been using one of those racks for 4 or 5 years and it still works pretty well. I've sold a ton of the DR racks at $30 this year as well. I don't like using wood for my gear rack because it will absorb some of the moisture and some of the smell. I can only imagine how much bacteria is on a wood rack that has been used for a long period of time. Metal and plastic can be taken apart in a couple minutes and thrown in a sink or just wiped down with some disinfectant and it's as good as new.

[ktang 34]

Just wondering if you guy / gal's have good instructions to build my own Equipment Drying Rack?  Wet Gear Equipment Rack, http://www.puckshop.com/wetgearrack.html, looks pretty good but is is $40 plus shipping.

Thanks

I've been using one of those racks for 4 or 5 years and it still works pretty well. I've sold a ton of the DR racks at $30 this year as well. I don't like using wood for my gear rack because it will absorb some of the moisture and some of the smell. I can only imagine how much bacteria is on a wood rack that has been used for a long period of time. Metal and plastic can be taken apart in a couple minutes and thrown in a sink or just wiped down with some disinfectant and it's as good as new.

About the bacteria and smell getting into the wood: I'm afraid of that, too.

I drilled holes to put angled dowels into the cross-bars (the cross-bars are old wooden hockey sticks), and I use the hook loops in the shoulder, elbow, and shin pads to hang them up. I use the thumb loop to hang up the gloves, and I use the belt to hang up the pants. I hang up the skates through their blade holders. So, not too much sweat gets onto the wood, which I coated with polyurethane anyway so that it can be sprayed and wiped down once-in-a-while.

I still don't have a digital camera, but I can describe mine, made out of hockey stick shafts. All dowel pegs angle slightly upwards so that equipment doesn't slide off. We're (still!) renting, so I needed to make a stand-alone rack.

Base - Two 3' pieces, joined in the middle with a lap joint (like an 'X') with a hole for a 5/8" dowel in the middle of the lap joint (this is not a peg). I used carpenter's glue to attach these two pieces.

Vertical shaft - One 4' piece, with a 5/8" hole drilled at one end to fit it into the 5/8" dowel in the base.

Braces - Four 1-ft support pieces (45-degree cuts) to brace the vertical piece against the base. Attach with glue and wood screws.

Arms - Two 4' horizontal pieces, lap jointed with the vertical pieces 2 1/2' from the base and 1' from the top, one going North-South and one going East-West. These are the pieces to which the dowels are attached to make pegs, and from which I hang the elbows, shins, gloves, and skates.

Add another 2 pegs, on the vertical shaft, from which to hang the shoulder pads and pants.

The helmet just sits on the top of the vertical piece.

[A_Steeves12 0]

i have one bought at crappy tire for like $15, i find it works pretty well i guiess.

[robin640 0]

i have built some out of pvc pipe in my shop. The parents like them but not the price tag, so i basically tell them the pieces of pvc pipe to buy and i put it together for them. It works out really well and it really doesn't take too long.

Do you mind listing the parts recommended to purchase. I can probally figure out how to put together.

Thanks

[ktang 34]

i have one bought at crappy tire for like $15, i find it works pretty well i guiess.

If I knew about that I would have bought instead of made!

[notorious#29 0]

What's the advantage to using one of these drying racks? I always just lay all my wet gear on the basement floor, seems to work fine.

Is there some kind of benefit to using one of these drying racks?

[Jason Harris 31]

Is there some kind of benefit to using one of these drying racks?

My reason for making one is it takes up less space, especially since it hangs from the ceiling.

[ktang 34]

For me, the advantages are primarily neatness, and a little bit better air circulation if used in conjunction with a fan.

For others, another advantage is not forgetting to pack things back into the bag before going to the game; if you see something on the rack, pack it.

[dstidham 0]

http://www.lifetimehockey.com/Hockey_tree.htm

Try the site above that is how I built mine. Its wood but it works pretty good. And it was fairly cheap.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Doesnt one have built in fans?

[Kovy_Ribs_Fedo 3]

Save the $40! I made a decent one out broken stick handles I picked up at the rink. I'll post a pic of it tomorrow. Cost me $5 for some screws, plus about 30 min of my time.

Sometimes it's not always about money.