Wickes "Spur" shelving uprights

[michael adams]

Genuine Spur twin slot uprights are 16 mm deep

Wickes knockoff twin slot uprights are only 13.3 mm deep.

(I'm not unscrewing some off the wall to check the gauge of the metal)

If you have a stock of old Spur brackets knocking around (or maybe just any non-Wickes Spur copies) these will fit fine if you try one out on a free-standing upright in a Wickes shed

However once the Wickes uprights are screwed to the wall its impossible to fit Spur pattern brackets as there's no wriggle room for the profile on the bracket.

So its either a matter of without filing away the bottom corner of the profile on each and every bracket.

Or unscrewing the uprights, fitting the brackets and rescrewing to the wall.

Or maybe paying Wickes exorbitant prices for their non-standard brackets.

michael adams

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[John Rumm]

Lots of the clones seem to be that deep.

Angle grinder ;-)

(in fact it only takes moments to give a bunch of older brackets a quick lick on a bench grinder)

Having said that the brackets are also fairly cheap if you go to the right place. e.g.

[michael adams]

I sould have checked,

The last time I bought uprights it was mail order genuine Spur as the prices in the sheds seemeda bit steep Only this time I have a Wickes just around the corner and wanted to make a start.

I've mounted the drill upside down in the Wofcraft Drill stand clamped to a corner of the bench and attached a well worn metal cutting disk. Standing behind the pillar in case the disc shatters or flies off. (Safety first as always) As you say its a matter of seconds for each one.

Funnily enough the ones on there are Silverline - Toolstation's usual brand. They seem to have the same slim profile as those at Screwfix - a bit pointy at the front. The Toolstation ones have a deeper profile at the front and are "Specialist" Brand. That's what it says on the plain label anyway. One advantage of those is that the bottom lug is smaller - but that may only apply to smaller sizes anyway.

michael adams

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[Bob Eager]

I've been buying mine from Screwfix for quite a while now. I keep wanting more shelves for the workshop!

[michael adams]

Unfortunately I wanted 2060mm - 6ft 9ins while for some reason Screwfix only stock 1400mmm - around 4ft 6in max and Toolstation 1600mm 5ft 3in

michael adams

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[John Rumm]

Some places also do 1m lengths - a pair of those would get you close to what you want.

[Bob Eager]

I used (shock, horror, don't tell Dribble) a hacksaw...

[Frank Erskine]

"Spur" haven't been in business for several years now, which is why there's so much compatible (fsvo) "pattern" stuff about.

[michael adams]

Unfortunately you don't get the full advantage of the cantlilever effect and multiple attachment points with shorter lengths. As you do with one length.

Been using this stuff for years, only now just looked at the brackets as a result of some of them being thinner gauge, and whether that matters. Their strength lies in their being one piece of steel folded over - obvious really once you've looked.

Apparently the original Spur factory went out of business a few years back, and it, along with the name were bought by Storage Solutions who re-opened the factory and re-hired a lot of the staff.

Expiring patents maybe.

michael adams

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[John Rumm]

Yup true... depends a bit on your proposed loading as to how much that is going to matter.

(it also means you have 4 things to screw to a wall and get parallel and plumb!)

I would expect so...

[michael adams]

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It would be 12 more like. There are 6 uprights to support 8 ft of shelving. Using 22 inch bays with 15mm chipboard shelving to support heavy books leads to sagging IME so I've gone for 16in bays instead. I could have chosen 18mm shelving instead but that would have meant heavier shelving plus the weight of the books supported by five uprights as against lighter shelving plus the same weight of books supported by six.

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I've been trying to discover the inventor of twin slot/cantilever shelving without any success. Spur may just have been a UK licencing of a US or European system.

michael adams

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[polygonum]

Spur (current incarnation) even mention the European version - Gardinia - on their web site. But no invention history.

[Peter Sully]

Yes I am pleased to say the SPUR(R) range lives on and is made in our factory in Great Torrington Devon.

We manufacture using the same machines and with some of the same staff and to the same or better spec.

The steel-lok twinslot range is now back in full production now that we have cleared the lorry loads of stock we purchased from European stock holder several years ago. We continue to keep material thicknesses and quality consistent maintaining the premium quality that is so well respected.

We also manufacture other products in the range such as hanging basket brackets, radiator brackets and various free standing shelving ranges we sell under our Zamba brand.

If yo do get sold tatt when you get ask for "SPUR steel-lok" feel free to report it to us or Trading Standards and do your little bit for British jobs ;-)

[Man at B&Q]

Did you not get the message the last time you spammed a newsgroup [e-mail] ?

MBQ

[Steve Firth]

"michael adams" wrote: [snip]

The one telling him to f*ck off.

Because it is spam. If you want to receive that crap, subscribe yourself to his mailing list. It doesn't belong here.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Christ on a bike, Adams is right, for once.

Fuck off, out of principle.

[michael adams]

Spur shelving and the people who make it, contribute more to the sum total of human happiness in just one minute, than a miserable nonentity such as yourself could ever hope to achieve, even if you were to live to be a thousand years old.

Parasites such as yourself with nothing really useful to contribute to any newsgroup except to waste poeople's time are in no real postion to criticise anyone about anything.

michael adams

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[Frank Erskine]

+1

[Owain]

And if we mentioned ukdiy a wee discounty might be offered?

Owain

[Steve Firth]

No matter what your (worthless) opinion of my posts here, it still does not excuse the posting of off-topic spam. Most children learn early on that "please miss he did something worse" is not an excuse. It seems that you are too dim to have learned this basic lesson.

I've not seen you contribute anything of value here BTW.