I have a few pieces of glass I want to safely store. Its a couple door windows, a back hatch glass and a quarter glass. Possibly a windshield in the near future. Right now they are leaning against the garage wall with moving blankets between them. There has to be a better way. Im not opposed to building a simple rack outside.
How do you guys store your glass?
The easiest way of course is to break them down into small pieces and put them all in a rubbermaid tote. Reassembling them is the hard part!
I usually store glass behind the shop. It's less likely to get bumped out there and glass is easy to clean up, so outside storage is acceptable to me.
Yeah, a simple rack that allows them to stand will save space. sort of like the way plates are loaded in the dishwasher.
EDIT: sorry, I forgot that your version of a dishwasher is to let the horses lick the plates clean.
DrBoost wrote: Yeah, a simple rack that allows them to stand will save space. sort of like the way plates are loaded in the dishwasher. EDIT: sorry, I forgot that your version of a dishwasher is to let the horses lick the plates clean.
I quit using plates when I realized I could just share their feed buckets.
Toyman01 wrote: I usually store glass behind the shop. It's less likely to get bumped out there and glass is easy to clean up, so outside storage is acceptable to me.
Do you have it on any kind of rack or just lean it up against the wall?
I think I would like to keep it off the ground.
+1 for the giant dishwasher rack. Be sure to make it longer than you need so that glass won't have to be put at the very end where it won't be protected from both sides.
Horse licking optional.
I have windows stored in the rafters of the garage.
x2 garage rafters.
do not store your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass up against your dad's barn with a metal roof, as the ice will slide off the roof and break your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass.
patgizz wrote: x2 garage rafters. do not store your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass up against your dad's barn with a metal roof, as the ice will slide off the roof and break your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass.
How have you acquired such wisdom?
Ive seen me put a plastic bumper cover in the rafters. I fear putting a windshield in the trusses will result in me on the floor in a pile of safety glass while 3 horses nose my pockets looking for treats.
patgizz wrote: x2 garage rafters. do not store your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass up against your dad's barn with a metal roof, as the ice will slide off the roof and break your 60 year old mint rare factory tint windshield that you drove 140 miles to get an entire car just for the glass.
Sounds like any outside storage needs a roof.
I suppose under the bed would work.
I have three or four cars worth of glass in an unused closet in the basement. They're all haphazardly leaning on one another. In time, I'm sure they'll all shatter and I'll be sad and that'll be that.
I have what used to be a wine rack made of steel and with three layers, outsides and a middle, with nothing in between. I laid something soft on the bottom and then stacked the glass upright on that. It holds several windshields and such and nothing can fall on them and harm them., easy enough to weld up a quick rack like that.
pilotbraden wrote: I suppose under the bed would work.
Horse beds or people beds?
Powar wrote: I have three or four cars worth of glass in an unused closet in the basement. They're all haphazardly leaning on one another. In time, I'm sure they'll all shatter and I'll be sad and that'll be that.
Thats not how it works. Those will never break, even if a bowling ball fell from the top closet shelf. But it you built a secure rack, they would shatter like my dreams of being an exotic dancer!
Hate to admit it, but I store the pieces of 356 glass and two rare windshields wrapped in blankets and under the bed.
Safe and sound, warm as toast.
Wouldn't trust them to the outside or the dangers of a barn/cellar/garage. Took too long to find and cost too much to own.
Caution, If cohabitating with a female the following advice may result in bodily injury: I have a windshield behind a loveseat, door and quarter glass are behind the couch and the rear windshield is under the bed, lets just say it comes up from time to time and not everyone is happy about this situation.
Crate it.
We use these in our trucks at work.
They're expensive if you don't use it often. You can make a fairly sturdy version out of 1" dowel rods and some 2x4s though. The most important thing is to keep it away from where any grinding or welding is happening. The further away from where work is happening the less chances of something bumping or chipping the corner is.
In reply to Lancer007:
That kinda looks like what I was doodling in a meeting earlier today. 
Yup, that's what I had in mind.
In reply to DrBoost
PVC pipe might be appropriate for the uprights
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