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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1110319" data-attributes="member: 176704">Several years ago, I bought 4x &quot;workshop&quot; racks&nbsp; - you know, the sort that are boldly promoted as being great&nbsp; because they are &quot;boltless&quot; -&nbsp; from MachineMart for the garage.Well, I don't know about anyone else who has assembled those &quot;boltless&quot; racks, but, to me, assembling them on your own is a bit like trying to set up a TD110 - you need &quot;3+&quot; arms and a lot of patience as the process is very much &quot;two steps forward, then one step back&quot;&nbsp; because once you get one end of a frame bar slotted in, you generally then find that the other end has become dislodged (and impossible to refit because the soft steel &quot;lugs&quot; in one bar have deformed and won't fit the slots in the mating one)!But, OK, I finally got all 4 racks assembled and in place, but it now seems that I'll likely have to move them around the garage in the near future - so how do I then make sure that they don't damned well fall apart in the process?Thus I think I came up, and have nearly finished &quot;implementing&quot;, a pretty workable solution - I drilled the vertical and horizontal bars and fitted BOLTS and NUTS (so they'r not &quot;boltless&quot; any longer&quot;)!&quot;I used a 3.5mm pilot drill bit, and then a 6.5mm clearance hole bit, through the vertical &amp; horizontal bars at the junction points, and then bolted them together with M6x12mm roofing bolts and serrated-flange nuts (like those <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174119974752" target="_blank">here)</a>, and the pics below show what the &quot;finished job&quot; looks like.The racks, at least when fairly empty, are now pretty easy to &quot;shove around&quot; without them falling over or totally apart, and that should make any future re-arrangements much easier.On reflection, I should have done pretty much the same thing when I first assembled those racks as that would have made the job much less time-consuming, sweaty and flustrating<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":-doh" title="DOH!&nbsp; &nbsp; :-doh" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-doh" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1110319, member: 176704"] Several years ago, I bought 4x "workshop" racks - you know, the sort that are boldly promoted as being great because they are "boltless" - from MachineMart for the garage. Well, I don't know about anyone else who has assembled those "boltless" racks, but, to me, assembling them on your own is a bit like trying to set up a TD110 - you need "3+" arms and a lot of patience as the process is very much "two steps forward, then one step back" because once you get one end of a frame bar slotted in, you generally then find that the other end has become dislodged (and impossible to refit because the soft steel "lugs" in one bar have deformed and won't fit the slots in the mating one)! But, OK, I finally got all 4 racks assembled and in place, but it now seems that I'll likely have to move them around the garage in the near future - so how do I then make sure that they don't damned well fall apart in the process? Thus I think I came up, and have nearly finished "implementing", a pretty workable solution - I drilled the vertical and horizontal bars and fitted BOLTS and NUTS (so they'r not "boltless" any longer")!" I used a 3.5mm pilot drill bit, and then a 6.5mm clearance hole bit, through the vertical & horizontal bars at the junction points, and then bolted them together with M6x12mm roofing bolts and serrated-flange nuts (like those [URL='https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174119974752']here)[/URL], and the pics below show what the "finished job" looks like. The racks, at least when fairly empty, are now pretty easy to "shove around" without them falling over or totally apart, and that should make any future re-arrangements much easier. On reflection, I should have done pretty much the same thing when I first assembled those racks as that would have made the job much less time-consuming, sweaty and flustrating:-doh [/QUOTE]

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