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The Other (Other) Rack

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'rack'ing up the numbers !! I needed a rack for my bathroom to store towels and other sundry items. Thought of buying one, but then realized I already had one in the room in form of a galvanized steel rack, which holds variety of car care tools/consumables. Only had to build a wooden one to keep in the room so as free up the steel one for the bathroom. Measured the steel rack and ripped / crosscut some 19mm plywood to match the specs Put in pocket holes on each shelf - 4 on each side Then used pocket screws (got some original Kreg screws carried in by a friend coming in from USA) and glue to quickly build the carcass The screw holes are hidden from view as they fall under each shelf I had some leftover hardboard (masonite) from a project long back. Decided to utilize the same for the backing piece. Only issue was that the hardboard was in 2 pieces, so could not get a single piece to act as the back - had to put in 2 pieces. The back does n