I have been upgrading my storage in the garage as I am running out of room to store parts and equipment.  Every time I work on the plane and especially during a priming session, I have to move a bunch of stuff around so I don't trip over it or have to climb around it.

Case in point, I have the fuselage kit sitting on the floor in the garage and it takes a lot of valuable floor space.

When I prime, I have a folding table that I put out in order to Alumiprep and Alodine the parts.  That doesn't leave very much floor space to move around.

I was surfing Brad Oliver's web site and I see that he put up some Hyloft racks from the ceiling of his garage.  I got to thinking that would be a good place to put the fuselage parts and free up some garage floor space.

I checked Hyloft's web site and they had their largest 45" x 45" rack on sale.  So I ordered 2 of them to make a 45" x 90".  Each 45" x 45" rack is good up to 250 Ibs.  So the configuration you see below is good for 500 Ibs.

http://www.hyloftusa.com

NOTE:  Their shipping was really reasonable and prompt.  Hyloft got it shipped out the next day and it came UPS ground.  They charged me $30 for shipping, but these two racks were 60+ Ibs so I thought the shipping fees were reasonable.  It costs me $30+ to drive to Omaha and half the time I go up there for something, the store in question is usually out what ever I am looking for.

I unpacked the fuselage, separated the majority of the paper from the parts and put them on the rack.  I had plenty of space. 

Now I have the fuselage all put away.  I have cleared up the floor space on the garage and with winter coming, I think that I could actually get at least one of the cars in the garage.  That is something Tami has been bugging me about the last two winters.