LP storage? What do you use?

Check out a newer Lowe's hardware store. Some of the older ones don't have furniture. I was able to pick up a 4 shelf, metal rack. They come in chrome, black, or white I think was the thrid choice. The model I picked up is 36" wide x 14" deep x 54" high. The bottom of each of the four supports have adjustable feet to level. Each shelf is rated at 350 lbs. Price was $54... no sale price. They also had taller as well as wider.

http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=60917-000080752-672763

above is a link, if you click on larger view you can zoom in and out to see the model I picked up. For stability, I used rubber gaskets on either side of several washers with a long screw through it into a wall anchor on the top shelf in two locations to secure it to the wall. Incredibly sturdy and not going anywhere.

I have to agree with agaffer, I can't stand storing my records on a shelf. It's a pain to find anything even in alphabetical order. Record shop style all the way. I have a cheap pine LP shelf that I have laid flat on the floor and turned the LP's so that I can flip through. Much better, plus you can enjoy all that great cover art.

http://www.rackittm.com/page2.html

I have 30 of Per Madsen's record racks (actually I made some myself), and each one holds about 90 lps. I like that they are stackable as I have moved my collection 5 times since using this system. I have nine foot ceilings, and I have stacked these 7 high to fit in my small listening room.

Bad to store Lps in huge rows. Many racks have dividers within a shelf. Otherwise warping issues. If shelf is packed, this is not a problem, but often, 1 album is leanig over and others are falling on it. If you build your own put in 1/4 inch plywood dividers.

This subject is a constant source of frustration for me. I maintain a collection of around 2500 lps, but have never managed to store them all in one "system" (primarily because of the large cash layout and uninterrupted wall space it would require). So currently I use four 4x4 Ikea cubes that I believe are called Akrobat (this doubles as the surface upon which all the audio equipment resides), a cheap pine bookcase with 4 shelves, and a room divider located in another room with three shelves. There are several hundred more records on the floor, leaning against whatever flat surface will support them, and a bunch boxed up in the closet. I hate having records inaccessible in the closet but my girlfriend demanded I remove them from the bathroom.