On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:08:09 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/5783du is roughly what I have. Then I bought S-hooks
>>> at
>>> the hardware store to hang the pots from the underside of the shelves.
>>
>> OK, I had that in mind... but his description didn't match what I
>> envisioned. Yours has plastic collars???
>
>Yes, but you can't see them very well; the metal fittings at the corners of
>the shelves obscure them. But the collars are what's holding the shelf in
>place. Those things which look like vertical pipes fit together, and you can
>slide the plastic collars up or down on the pipes. The collars have a kind
>of lip at the bottom and a couple of "ribs" on the inside. The pipes have
>horizontal grooves into which the "ribs" fit. When you have the collars at
>the height where you want the shelf, you slide the entire shelf assembly
>down the pipes until the corners of the shelf engage the collars. The
>collars are tapered at the top, so that when the shelf assembly is slid onto
>a collar, the whole thing is wedged into place. You can see a little more
>detail if you click on the "MORE IMAGES" tab until you see a detail of a
>corner fitting. In that picture, you can just barely see the plastic collar
>sticking out at the bottom of the corner fitting.
>
I almost don't need to, you did a great job explaining. Thanks.



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