Need Help Yea or Nay? Floor rack for large vinyl rolls EZ Horizontal Vinyl Roller Rack #17 EZH17

[Laura Tucker]

We're considering purchasing 2 of these vinyl roller racks for our shops. EZ Horizontal Vinyl Roller Rack #17 EZH17 Made by Mbs Standoffs

They're $542.00 each plus shipping of $160.00. Has anyone used one of these or have a different but similar product to store large vinyl. We don't want to store the vinyl on its end and prefer the storage idea of these. We're using these for 54" digital media, banner material, and vinyl.

Here's the website to check them out. EZ Horizontal Vinyl Roller Rack #17

I'd love your feedback before we finalize our decision.

 

[dypinc]

I never liked hanging rolls like that because the core get oval shaped from the weight and hanging at the top point. Much better to stand them on end.

 

[eahicks]

I like those, but they're pricey. But I just don't like the whole idea of poles to wrestle with while grabbing a roll of vinyl, holding the roll, sliding it off the pole......it's much easier to me with the vertical racks we have....but you don't want that so....
No extra stuff...grab the roll and put it in the machine. And these are way cheaper.

 

[Chasez]

I like those, but they're pricey. But I just don't like the whole idea of poles to wrestle with while grabbing a roll of vinyl, holding the roll, sliding it off the pole......it's much easier to me with the vertical racks we have....but you don't want that so....
No extra stuff...grab the roll and put it in the machine. And these are way cheaper.

We made this almost exactly ourselves. Couple sheets of plywood, castors, and some 2x4's. works great and can make them to fit your space. We have a 20ft wall lined with a few that we made, as well as a 3 tier aluminum rack with small 15"-24" rolls stacked on. Works great and MUCH cheaper than purchasing something like those.

Chaz

 

[Laura Tucker]

I never liked hanging rolls like that because the core get oval shaped from the weight and hanging at the top point. Much better to stand them on end.

Thanks

We made this almost exactly ourselves. Couple sheets of plywood, castors, and some 2x4's. works great and can make them to fit your space. We have a 20ft wall lined with a few that we made, as well as a 3 tier aluminum rack with small 15"-24" rolls stacked on. Works great and MUCH cheaper than purchasing something like those.

Chaz

I'd love to see photos of your racks. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Laura Tucker]

I never liked hanging rolls like that because the core get oval shaped from the weight and hanging at the top point. Much better to stand them on end.

I didn't know about this issue. Thanks for pointing the core issue.

 

[Laura Tucker]

I like those, but they're pricey. But I just don't like the whole idea of poles to wrestle with while grabbing a roll of vinyl, holding the roll, sliding it off the pole......it's much easier to me with the vertical racks we have....but you don't want that so....
No extra stuff...grab the roll and put it in the machine. And these are way cheaper.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to take all of the comments back to the production department at the end of the week and review again.

 

[bannertime]

I hate taking rolls from vertical to horizontal so we have a wall rack right across from the printer for horizontal storage. I've not experienced the core shape distortion. Most of our materials have the thick walled core though. Since the HP latex machines have the loading table, it's super easy to take the roll off the wall, turn around and set it down. Pull the pole, put it back, and load the roll. My lesser used materials do get stored vertically on old plastic core shipping things. They can be built for much less than $500 though. We use 2x6 and our original stands are nearly 25 years old.

 

[AKwrapguy]

I have a few of the vertical ones. We looked at the horizontal ones but we figured we can fit more in the same place with Vertical ones, and we never move them around so wheels weren't needed. Also no center poles to deal with.

 

[Chasez]

Thanks

I'd love to see photos of your racks. Thanks for the feedback.

Its hard to see but you can get the idea.

Chaz

 

[jfiscus]

We stand them on end, never any issues from that. Currently we have around 200 rolls of 48, 54, 60" material in-house. We DO have them on stands, but most are just the plastic end caps screwed to plywood bases to elevate them off the floor. We have a few of the roll-around racks for "middle of the shop" spaces, but most live along walls. for rolls 36" and under they go on the wall racks, but we are using less and less of those anymore besides 15" punched.

 

[ikarasu]

We have some metal bars welded to make a home made rack. 5-10 in a vertical space off the wall... 4-5 rows of it. Takes upittle space, light stuff on-top and on bottom.. heavy stuff in the mid.

For our 54"+ rolls we just stand up on the core.

 

[chromira]

Bought these from Yellowtools. We also have one of the expensive metal ones but that was our first and last because of cost.

 

[chromira]

Lots of rolls in a small space.

 

[dypinc]

Where did you find those orange holders?

 

[chromira]

Where did you find those orange holders?

Also at Yellowtools.

 

[bigwow]

Center poles are a pain in the proverbial, especially with wider rolls. Go vertical and make your own racks, very easy - casters, MDF sheet, PVC tube, nuts and bolts.

 

[2B]

we have both styles, vertical and horizontal

for the vertical, we take the plastic core plugs and mount them to plywood.

the horizontal rack is modified, the idea of the rod is a complete pain and very impractical.
we took PVC pipe cut the tube in half, filed down the edges, then glued felt to the PVC tube.
This way you can easily handle the media and do so without the hassle of the rod or marking up the surface

 

[dypinc]

Also at Yellowtools.

You mean Yelllotools.us.

 

[chromira]

You mean Yelllotools.us.

Yes. My brain really wants the W in there.