CD RackShelf

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As part of my plan for a RackCabinet, I envisage a need to store CD's and DVD's.

This is the design idea to satisfy such a need.

Using slides such as these at Argent, a shelf would be constructed, with shallow depressions so as to hold in place rows of CD's.

Here is a GimpSketch of a top-view of the design:

And very roughly, here is an isometricish view of the top board in ascii:

          43 cm across
 +---------------------------------+                 .
 |\   ________  ________  ________  \                .
 \ \  \______|\ \______|\ \______|\  \               .
  \ \  \     \ \ \     \ \ \     \ \  \              .
   \ \  \     \ \ \     \ \ \     \ \  \             .
    \ \  \     \ \ \     \ \ \     \ \  \   58 cm deep
     \ \  \     \ \ \     \ \ \     \ \  \           .
      \ \  \     \ \ \     \ \ \     \ \  \          .
       \ \  \_______\ \_______\ \_______\  \         .
        \ \   ____________________________  \        . 
         \ \  \__________________________|\  \       .
          \ \  \                         \ \  \      .
           \ \__\                         \ \__\     .
            \|__|                          \|__|     .
                           41cm CD slot

Crunch Comments: A possible way of doing the shelf would be to get (50mm wide * 20mm thick * required length) lengths of pine / prefered timber and join them forming the pattern described above. A way of making it look cleaner would be to make the Depth of the trays to be that of the depth of a CD. Increasing the depth of the shelf would remove the need to have the bolts on the end of the trays to support the CDs, AND would improve containment of the shelf if anything "unfortunate" were to happen to the tray.

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Another idea is that the CD's be stacked as expected on a shelf, with multiple such "shelves" deep. Each one slides to the side on rails to expose the one behind, before all compacting back into the rack