From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:1027rvf$qs7c$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   If you have a storage solution for the standard (maybe only USA   
   standard) 12 foot stock flat bar I'd love to see it.  My shop has a 16ft   
   eave height so I can store it vertically anywhere inside that I have the   
   floor space, but I am trying to recover, not lose floor space right now.   
     I am even considering just storing it all outdoors.   
   Bob La Londe   
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   I store longer aluminum stock outdoors under a roof, and it acquires   
   noticeable surface corrosion from our sometimes humid weather and rapid   
   temperature changes when under the Jet Stream. Fog may be condensing on it   
   occasionally.   
      
   My formerly inexpensive outdoor roofing is corrugated galvy, PVC or   
   polycarbonate from the big box stores. Northern sun makes both plastics   
   brittle after a decade or so. The galvy can be tied down between pt 2x4s to   
   avoid fastener holes so it can be rearranged. I bought 12' and 16' warped   
   2x4s at the "cull" markdown for this. If damaged the corrugations can be   
   restored with a plastic + brass hammer over 1-1/2" pipe. I've straightened   
   pieces a falling tree had crumpled.   
      
   The shed I put a peaked roof on has a hinged gable end door to slide in long   
   stock. Its wall studs are the full 8' high, with the added 3" of top plus   
   bottom sills 8' steel channel can be stacked upright in a corner, and 10' -   
   12' pipe under the peak.   
      
   I've raised long items up to roof beams with a block and tackle at both   
   ends. It wasn't a good solution because I could raise or lower only one end   
   at a time and a tilted pile wanted to slide. It works well enough for a   
   single item like a canoe or a choker sling load. The load hangs on one side   
   of a column, I'm on the other side in case it falls. A fixed rack below the   
   beams was better, it can be suspended at all four corners if there's extra   
   space at one end to angle long stock in. Supporting long stock ~1/4 of its   
   length in from both ends bends it the least.   
   jsw   
      
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