Never Before Seen, the Ultimate Record Storage Porn – the Rotating Record Cabinet

[BensonIsDead]

I’m an avid collector and like most… we get married. And when it comes to collecting and being married, us collectors are the ‘Fever Pitch’ movie equivalent of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, who also wrote Fever Pitch, but when you get married it becomes more about aesthetics than it does function when a music collection is involved.

So I present to you, the first I’ve ever… well from months of searching or ever seen; the first-ever 100% DIY husband-made rotating record cabinet!

I’m a construction Project Manager of sorts for GCs and somewhat handy in building, well above average and once on site, I found myself redesigning an old dental office. To save space the dental office employed a rotating single file cabinet system (4’w x 2’d x 8’h) I’d never seen before. Recently married, knowing my wife feared my ever-growing music collection this was my eureka-opportunity. So I took it!

Originally the idea was to salvage these two rotating file cabinets and use them as is, but they just can’t handle the weight. It needed to be modified. So I scratched the idea of having two, instead focused on the idea and base. Then to streamline it, redesigned my thought to replace a closet. It's a metal base with a 1" MDF cabinet, reinforced bolted on top with a lever on top... the top is the most essential aspect because it's built into my house structural framing for balance. It's all about balance.

I’m more than happy to go more into detail as this took six months of planning and three to four months to build (using just a skill saw and jigs). I’ve done much searching… pretty sure this is a first. Thankfully, my wife sacrificed a closet, though I had to build her another closet at the top of the stairs… but it works… and has now worked without fail for two years... well it worked… I’ve run out of space.

There are four sides, as it rotates... one side is textured to match the drywall, another is laminate so to use for a dry erase board for the toddlers, the other two sides holds five adjustable shelves... each shelf holds 200-250 vinyl albums.

I need another closet! Enjoy!

 

[Mystic]

I’m an avid collector and like most… we get married. And when it comes to collecting and being married, us collectors are the ‘Fever Pitch’ movie equivalent of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, who also wrote Fever Pitch, but when you get married it becomes more about aesthetics than it does function when a music collection is involved.

So I present to you, the first I’ve ever… well from months of searching or ever seen; the first-ever 100% DIY husband-made rotating record cabinet!

I’m a construction Project Manager of sorts for GCs and somewhat handy in building, well above average and once on site, I found myself redesigning an old dental office. To save space the dental office employed a rotating single file cabinet system (4’w x 2’d x 8’h) I’d never seen before. Recently married, knowing my wife feared my ever-growing music collection this was my eureka-opportunity. So I took it!

Originally the idea was to salvage these two rotating file cabinets and use them as is, but they just can’t handle the weight. It needed to be modified. So I scratched the idea of having two, instead focused on the idea and base. Then to streamline it, redesigned my thought to replace a closet. It's a metal base with a 1" MDF cabinet, reinforced bolted on top with a lever on top... the top is the most essential aspect because it's built into my house structural framing for balance. It's all about balance.

I’m more than happy to go more into detail as this took six months of planning and three to four months to build (using just a skill saw and jigs). I’ve done much searching… pretty sure this is a first. Thankfully, my wife sacrificed a closet, though I had to build her another closet at the top of the stairs… but it works… and has now worked without fail for two years... well it worked… I’ve run out of space.

There are four sides, as it rotates... one side is textured to match the drywall, another is laminate so to use for a dry erase board for the toddlers, the other two sides holds five adjustable shelves... each shelf holds 200-250 vinyl albums.

I need another closet! Enjoy!

It's a neat thing. Each shelf holds 200~250 LPs ... really? @ 5 shelves per cabinet, each side of your device can accommodate 1000~1250 LPs, or a total (both sides) of 2000~2500 LPs. That's a lotta LPs and a lotta weight, even @ the "low estimate" of up to 2000 LPs in total. As I look at this device and ponder my own collection -- in special boxes stored "archivally" -- of roughly 7,000 LPs and 78s, I simply cannot imagine how four revolving cabinet devices as you've devised could accommodate as many as 8,000 LPs. Your revolving cabinet appears so compact and neat... it really holds 2000~2500 LPs? Kudos to ya regardless of the actual "N", it an attractive and -- literally -- neat solution to "in-home" LP storage. I'd be hesitant to install such devices in my (almost) 200 year old house in France -- only "ground flooring" is the basement -- but in an on the ground / slab foundation room setting this would be effin' great. Thanks for posting the video and information.

 

[Mystic]

I’m an avid collector and like most… we get married. And when it comes to collecting and being married, us collectors are the ‘Fever Pitch’ movie equivalent of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, who also wrote Fever Pitch, but when you get married it becomes more about aesthetics than it does function when a music collection is involved.

So I present to you, the first I’ve ever… well from months of searching or ever seen; the first-ever 100% DIY husband-made rotating record cabinet!

I’m a construction Project Manager of sorts for GCs and somewhat handy in building, well above average and once on site, I found myself redesigning an old dental office. To save space the dental office employed a rotating single file cabinet system (4’w x 2’d x 8’h) I’d never seen before. Recently married, knowing my wife feared my ever-growing music collection this was my eureka-opportunity. So I took it!

Originally the idea was to salvage these two rotating file cabinets and use them as is, but they just can’t handle the weight. It needed to be modified. So I scratched the idea of having two, instead focused on the idea and base. Then to streamline it, redesigned my thought to replace a closet. It's a metal base with a 1" MDF cabinet, reinforced bolted on top with a lever on top... the top is the most essential aspect because it's built into my house structural framing for balance. It's all about balance.

I’m more than happy to go more into detail as this took six months of planning and three to four months to build (using just a skill saw and jigs). I’ve done much searching… pretty sure this is a first. Thankfully, my wife sacrificed a closet, though I had to build her another closet at the top of the stairs… but it works… and has now worked without fail for two years... well it worked… I’ve run out of space.

There are four sides, as it rotates... one side is textured to match the drywall, another is laminate so to use for a dry erase board for the toddlers, the other two sides holds five adjustable shelves... each shelf holds 200-250 vinyl albums.

I need another closet! Enjoy!

PS: And, at least in my case, you're right: I have never seen this sort of set up before. Well done!

 

[onwardjames]

Slicker than owl shyte. That's lovely.

 

[Mr.Jim]

You can hide your extra equipment back there also.

 

[BensonIsDead]

It's a neat thing. Each shelf holds 200~250 LPs ... really? @ 5 shelves per cabinet, each side of your device can accommodate 1000~1250 LPs, or a total (both sides) of 2000~2500 LPs. That's a lotta LPs and a lotta weight, even @ the "low estimate" of up to 2000 LPs in total. As I look at this device and ponder my own collection -- in special boxes stored "archivally" -- of roughly 7,000 LPs and 78s, I simply cannot imagine how four revolving cabinet devices as you've devised could accommodate as many as 8,000 LPs. Your revolving cabinet appears so compact and neat... it really holds 2000~2500 LPs? Kudos to ya regardless of the actual "N", it an attractive and -- literally -- neat solution to "in-home" LP storage. I'd be hesitant to install such devices in my (almost) 200 year old house in France -- only "ground flooring" is the basement -- but in an on the ground / slab foundation room setting this would be effin' great. Thanks for posting the video and information.

Well to be fair, it's 125-150 LPs per shelf if there's a lot of gatefolds or if you want room to browse safely. It's a lot of weight centered, luckily I have a pier and beam foundation so I was able to ensure there was enough support where it's placed.

 

[Spitfirejoe]

Massively cool. That's a great idea and extraordinary execution.

 

[elcoholic]

I have to agree, very cool.