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Night Tripper writes
Thanks all for the comments:

Yep, 'Sten' rings a bell, and in fact I found a reference to it
in the archives of this very group.

I might well end up building some as fred suggests. I need quite a stack of
shelves of the deeper kind. They probably won't be as cheap as the
originals, but with OSB shouldn't be too bad.

I think I managed 5 bays for 120-150quid when I did my last set. 4
shelves (900x590) per bay using up about a sheet per bay. Bought from
B&Q to get free cuts. Their rough sawn outdoorish grade planks were fine
for the verticals once hand picked to remove the dross. About a day to
run up and build. The earlier ones used basic softwood faced ply for the
shelves which is a nicer finish but the OSB ones are ok and the surface
hasn't broken up through wear.

Some of my other shelves are of the later Sten variety, I think. I remember
noticing the coachbolts were of different sizes and got to investigating.
I'll measure them bosth up and post some dimensions. Though I don't remember
the shelves being rebated - the lateral pieces are square on both styles
IIRC. Could be wrong.

I had need to extend an existing set by one bay and was able to bodge
that together. I think the shelf depths are the same but the bay widths
are different, from memory I had an original shelf at the top and a new
one at the bottom which I extended with a metal plates.

And apologies for hijacking the 'Nokia Chargers' thread. That wasn't my
intention, and I hadn't realised it had happeend until sometime later.

Yep, follow up and changing the subject still leaves the 'refs' header
which spoils it. Don't know what the new thread hotkey is for your
reader.
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fred
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