any tips for dismantling Rapid Racking?

[The Night Tripper]

Hi there
a somewhat silly question ... I am taking delivery of some S/hand
RapidRacking shelving shortly. I have a bit of this already and although
it's decent quality stuff I found it a pig to assemble. I actually put one
shelf at the wrong height and found it more trouble than it was worth to
bash it out and re-fix it.

So - has anyone any tips on the assembly or (more especially) this
disassembly of the stuff, or is it just a case of brute force & ignorance?

Cheers
jon N

[Nightjar]

I use a large rubber mallet for both assembly and disassembly.

Colin Bignell

[The Natural Philosopher]

it comes with a rubber mallet...

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[F Murtz]

Angl- ------r

[The Natural Philosopher]

Anglo-saxon Chronicler?

[F Murtz]

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 12/03/13 01:32, F Murtz wrote:
>> The Night Tripper wrote:
>>> Hi there
>>> a somewhat silly question ... I am taking delivery of some S/hand
>>> RapidRacking shelving shortly. I have a bit of this already and although
>>> it's decent quality stuff I found it a pig to assemble. I actually put
>>> one
>>> shelf at the wrong height and found it more trouble than it was worth to
>>> bash it out and re-fix it.
>>>
>>> So - has anyone any tips on the assembly or (more especially) this
>>> disassembly of the stuff, or is it just a case of brute force &
>>> ignorance?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> jon N
>>>
>> Angl- ------r
>
> Anglo-saxon Chronicler?
>

More letters than dashes.

[polygonum]

Anglian Water - the space was in the wrong place...

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[Jim K]

Anglican vicar?

Jim K

[Piers]

I've not really had any issues.

Some pieces are harder than others to knock out again, but so long as
you hold the rest in place while you bash it's been fine - a single
sharp bash at end end will knock a bracket out. Perhaps it depends on
how much brute force is used to put it together, but then I do tend to
whack it together hard as well!

The other thing to remember is to put the shelving (i.e. the board) in
or to remove it at the appropriate time - i.e. when you actually have
sufficient access rather than to force it when it's awkward.

[F Murtz]

that might do it,just take an awful long time,(through corrosion)

[The Night Tripper]

Hi All

Piers wrote:

[...]

> I've not really had any issues.
>
> Some pieces are harder than others to knock out again, but so long as
> you hold the rest in place while you bash it's been fine - a single
> sharp bash at end end will knock a bracket out. Perhaps it depends on
> how much brute force is used to put it together, but then I do tend to
> whack it together hard as well!

Perhaps I was unlucky, in that my first set of shelving had a large number
of shelves with little space in-between them. That made it very difficult to
swing the hammer to disengage the shelves.

> The other thing to remember is to put the shelving (i.e. the board) in
> or to remove it at the appropriate time - i.e. when you actually have
> sufficient access rather than to force it when it's awkward.

Yes, I encountered this issue - thanks for the reminder!

[...]

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> it comes with a rubber mallet...

Ah, maybe that's my problem - I was using the mallet that came with the Big
Dug shelving ;-/

Cheers
Jon N

[The Night Tripper]

Hi All
a followup: shelving just delivered and disassembled *much* easier than
last time I tried. Either the brackets hadn't been fully bashed into place
originally, or being able to get a larger swing on the mallet made things
easier than I'd expected. Either way, I am pleased ;-)

Cheers
J^n