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RJ Smith
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 8:00 PM | |
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myrke
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 8:30 PM | |
That is some kind of doozy. My kids once knocked down and dumped out a large CD shelf structure full of hundreds of CDs, but all I had to do was just pick them up and stuff them back in, so it doesn't compare to that poor guy's situation.
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baseballcardstoreca
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Derek McDonough
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Joined: Jan 2020
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:31 PM | |
Plastic not the way to go. But you can overload wood shelves and have the same results. I feel bad for the guy. It looks like a lot of the cards are in sleeves and binders. Terrible to think of anything valuable got damaged.
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Minor League Collector, Collecting cards featuring players in Cedar Rapids uniforms or Logos, all sports, from past and present. Researching forgotten set variations.
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jlamberth
Posts: 425
Joined: Feb 2015
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:59 PM | |
Mine are in a 100 year old solid wood library card catalog
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Turning off trading because my collection is in complete disarray after moving and I don't know when I can get it organized.
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The Card Closet
Posts: 460
Joined: May 2017
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:06 PM | |
Can anyone tell where the break point was? It's hard to tell if the plastic cracked or a leg gave out, etc. I have some junk wax on a similar shelf. :(
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RJ Smith
Posts: 957
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:11 PM | |
Oh!! I've thought of that. But finding one near me is not something that would happen. I remember the card catalog at the Library I went to as a teen. It was dark wood with scroll work at the top edge and each part was around 8 feet long. I hope someone got them and they did not wind up in a landfill.
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RJ Smith
Posts: 957
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:46 PM | |
It is usually a shelf that cracks. That is where all the weight is and is the weakest point. Once that shelf cracks and gives way. All the weight from that shelf is dropped onto the next shelf. From there it will twist out of shape and crumble to the ground. Most plastic shelves are thinner on the back side of the shelf and you will see them sagging. If it is sagging in any way, a crack will form and it's only a matter of time.
The legs are the strongest part, round is better than square. look up Roman columns. But the amount of weight you need on it to crack a leg would kill the shelf in minutes.
Odds are he saw a shelf or two sagging, paper is heavy and thought oh it's plastic and is just bending. But plastic is not rubber.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,877
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| Thursday, August 18, 2022 1:57 AM | |
I would never store my cards on plastic shelving and it doesn't matter if they are in binders or boxes of any type. I have a plastic set-up like that one but with solid shelves (no holes/gaps in them) but I never used it for cards. All my shelves are metal, strong wood, or steel reinforced plastic. I learned long ago that cheap laminated-wood shelves will warp pretty quickly so I moved away from those as well. Seeing what was loaded on the shelves in that video doesn't eliminate a leg crack though. The shelf can warp enough to force the "leg" that is inserted into a corner of the shelf to crack and then the whole thing comes down without a shelf ever actually cracking. OR it could have cracked the shelf on the outside of where the leg inserts and then everything falls down in the same way.
I've never had a collapse like that, but I learned over the years to pay attention to my shelves for any signs that there was too much weight on them. Then I remedy that before anything happens. Most of my shelves are now steel or have steel supports to hold the weight of the cards in any storage format. BTW, that plastic shelving that I have just holds my "The Simpson's" Christmas Train pieces that are still in their styrofoam shipping packages. No chance that those can break the shelves and even it they did, the items are still protected.
As a collector of many things, my worst fears for my collections are fire and water! I hope my collections never encounter fire, but I've been lucky to not lose my collections to flooding so far after a few times when it was possible. The cards were high enough off the ground and protected well enough to survive those close calls.
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