They were nine individual thread racks from Jo-Anns. They came in wood color. Got em on sale online. We spray painted them semi gloss white, then counter sunk some screw holes (4) in each and attached them to the wall. Then hung them so they just looked like one big wall of thread. They work great for small spools - If you were doing large spools, I would want something with a little more space between the rows. (maybe something like this - http://www.threadandmore.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1428) Big spools only work ok on the bottom row. This worked for us and was economical. I think they ran about 10 bucks a rack and I think we hung nine in total. Looks like they have gone up a little in price though... http://www.threadandmore.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1440 John -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Roman Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:06 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Shop Pics / Shop Heat John I like how you store your thread. What exactly are you using on the wall? Thom Thomas Roman The Quantum Group 26745 Queen Court Murrieta, CA 92563 Phone 951-698-4970 Fax 951-696-7040 http://www.thequantumgroup.net mailto:troman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yaglenski Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:56 AM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Shop Pics / Shop Heat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey all: We havn't done much of this yet, but I thought I would send along pics of our shop setup. Would be nice to see some of your shops as well to check out how you set them up - and get ideas (whether they be in your house or store front). See http://flickr.com/photos/levelbest/sets/72057594071145755/ Also of note, our dedicated space would always get very hot when we were running the machines and such. Didn't really think much about it but we had 10 overhead floodlights in the room... that's 10x65 watts of power for 650 watts of heat being thrown off by the bulbs. Was in home depot yesterday and they now how flourescent flood lights which run at all of 14.5 watts and are cool to the touch the second you turn them off. So I replaced 8 of the 10 (they had four packs for only $13) and left two normal floods for color balancing purposes). The room is now noticably cooler! Running at 246 Watts instead - and we are getting the same amount of light (maybe even a little more). Two things of note... the flourescent floods take about 1-2 mins to get to their full brightness when turned on - and they are not dimmable. Anyway, thought I would share in case any of you had this issue. John Yaglenski Levelbest Embroidery I: <http://www.levelbest.com/> levelbestembroidery.com P: 301.591.2481 P: 888.229.1779 F: 501.631.4544 This e-mail message and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Levelbest, immediately -- by replying to this message or by sending an e-mail to embsales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you. -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: image/gif -- File: embroidery.gif -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: image/gif -- File: Blank Bkgrd.gif =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== __________ NOD32 1.1786 (20061002) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================