Earthquake proof glass stroage

[SINGED AGAIN]

Earthquakes have been on our mine of late . I had been looking at my studio lay out and realized that my glass rack which is made up of white plastic plumbing tube is perched on the top of my bench . I gave it a little wiggle & to my surprize it could easly rock right off the bench in a earthquake. What a $ lost it would be & a mess:twitch::eeek.

So I am looking to change this rack . Does anyone have any great solutions in this matter
Greg

[aklovesglass]

museum putty and a nice stable shelf. i was working when the earthquake hit nor cal a few weeks ago. it was crazy , i had know idea what was going on. there was a lot of glass that was lost in that quake. i am sure there are a bunch of people in arcata that could give you some tips.

peace hope my tip helps

[Bo Diddles]

Never been in an earthquake before, but I would assume there needs to be some form of shock absorption between the shelf and the ground / structure. Can you suspend the shelf with chains, or maybe chains with a short section of spring? I work construction, and often air handling units sit on springs that absorb the vibration of the unit and make it much quieter - maybe that would work?
I don't know, I'm just throwing out ideas...

[kage]

museum gel or putty should help. could save some pieces during a mild quake as long as the shelf holds up. we don't get a lot of earthquakes around here, but i use that for gallery shows. for me its like extra insurance for crowded galleries and when people who don't pay attention back into a pedestal, hopefully the piece stays put. i busted some of that out at an exhibition once. this fellow from san fran looked at me and said "we call that earthquake gel". he was not an artist, just there for the install for some reason. but he claimed that he puts that on everything on his shelves at his home in cali.

[Master Yoda]

Take advice from tool


learn to swim

[Dom]

Is there alot of earthquakes in BC canada?

[SINGED AGAIN]

What is museum gel or putty and how is it used & where would one buy it ? In BC. , along the Wild Wet West Coast there is a fault line which is part of the Pacific Ring Of Fire .It's about 100 mile off Vancouver Island. We are also waiting for the so called BIG ONE to hit . { hopefully not in my life time}
Has anyone ever built a cabnet which will store, seperate colour , maybe with drawers & doors?

[Bryan]

Best solution ever.. MOVE... I dunno bout you guys but earthquakes are scary as shit. Never been in one never want to

[nickglassdood]

Best solution ever.. MOVE... I dunno bout you guys but earthquakes are scary as shit. Never been in one never want to


i concur scary as shit

[sunray]

we sell the quake gel here in the store $10 you roll a little ball of it put it under your object press down.. It holds it tight, works great on marbles too.

[bc]

the gel is for keeping pieces in place, this dude is looking for a solution for his raw glass storage. Build a bench, on the ground with 2 x 4's, screws an a few bolts. good luck.

[Leothwyn]

I'm about as close to the epicenter of the recent 6.5 as you can get (right on the coast between Eureka and Arcata). My house was a huge mess, it broke a water line, knocked our big propane tank off the footings, sent my whole CD shelf down the stairs... My glass tubes/rods are the cardboard boxes that they came in, leaning against a wall in a corner of my shop (leaning between exposed studs) - none of it tipped over. My color is sorted into a bunch of pieces of house gutter downspout in a wood frame - none fell out.

My actual workstation was huge mess... but basically, everything that made a mess was in a pretty precarious place (including the other stuff I mentioned). I was definitely not prepared for an earthquake, but anything that was even slightly secured did just fine.

[SINGED AGAIN]

Leothwyn : I glad that your shop wasn't completely write off . What length are the gutter downspout 12inch, 24 inch 36 inch long ? Sounds like the frame is a good solution .

[Emmett's Glass]

24 in works great as color is 18 in or less. I use PVC tube in metal shelving unit.
E

[Leothwyn]

The downspout pieces for color are about 12" . There are a couple of rows in the back that are higher, to hold clear rods cut in half. They're upright, with a wooden frame surrounding them on the bottom (about 6" high). They fit in there tightly - I had to really smash them in there, which holds them place fine.

[murf]

6.5 quake has got to be holy shit moment. glad your ok.

I'm exposed to flooding, a slow death of watching helplessly. you have times when you need to leave but nah you dont. if its all going down, rather be watching it go.

i was swimming over field fencing pushing a canoe with my kids in it back in 96, watched my 200 year old slaughter house barn go down.

as far as the shop, i have heavy shelving for my large tube which i share with large wood turning stock., i also use the stud lay out in the walls for my rod cases and secure them, my bench is secured to the walls.

learned the hard way from a flood four years ago. been through two since and that portion of the shop is good to go.

[Leothwyn]

Flooding scares me a LOT more that quakes. We actually get a little bit of flooding here too. Mostly it's just tides + storm surge pushing water onto our property from the slough next to us - usually just a foot or so of water. When the river floods at the same time, it can get more intense though - 3 or 4 ft., and moving a lot faster. Still, it's nothing like your experience. That sound scary.

I was disappointed that I didn't get to feel the 6.5 quake. We were on a bumpy road at the time, an hour north of here, got to our friends house and they told us we missed a quake (which they thought was about 4.0 or so [how it felt way up there]). We hung out with them for a couple of hours, not knowing that there was a broken water line spraying water all over my woodshop the whole time. So, I got all of the cleanup fun, but didn't even get to experience the shaking.