Picked up my new van two weeks ago. I am so excited to be able to stand in the back rather then crouching over dozens of times a day! [big grin] I picked up a Nissan NV 3500 high roof with all the bells and whistles. I spent a lot of time looking at all of the options out there and this met all of my criteria including being able to tow my 10k dump trailer.
I took delivery of it without any racking. I fought with the racking in my express van and I knew starting from the ground up would be much more efficient. I used a mixture of 1/2" and 3/4" plywood and a ton of pocket screws and polyurethane glue to put it all together.
The process started by welding a steel frame for the bulkhead and mounting plywood to it. Then I bolted the shelf bases to the factory mounting points in the floor and glued and screwed plywood to the roof ribbing. Also a rail was glued to the roof ribbing to connect the shelving uprights to. Then I got a pattern made up for the uprights and got to work cutting and installing them. All of the uprights and shelves were cut to be just shy of hitting the interior of the van walls and all of these joints were filled with polyurethane glue to lock everything together. For the shelves I made up a simple jig to position four 5x30 dominos to hold the systainers in place.
At the bottom of the shelves the open space is 38" so there is plenty of room for 3x5 cement board to lay flat. As you can see there are still some things to be worked out, but I have 95% of my tools back in so it's back to work for me! [tongue]
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I took delivery of it without any racking. I fought with the racking in my express van and I knew starting from the ground up would be much more efficient. I used a mixture of 1/2" and 3/4" plywood and a ton of pocket screws and polyurethane glue to put it all together.
The process started by welding a steel frame for the bulkhead and mounting plywood to it. Then I bolted the shelf bases to the factory mounting points in the floor and glued and screwed plywood to the roof ribbing. Also a rail was glued to the roof ribbing to connect the shelving uprights to. Then I got a pattern made up for the uprights and got to work cutting and installing them. All of the uprights and shelves were cut to be just shy of hitting the interior of the van walls and all of these joints were filled with polyurethane glue to lock everything together. For the shelves I made up a simple jig to position four 5x30 dominos to hold the systainers in place.
At the bottom of the shelves the open space is 38" so there is plenty of room for 3x5 cement board to lay flat. As you can see there are still some things to be worked out, but I have 95% of my tools back in so it's back to work for me! [tongue]
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