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:help: I need some serious MD storage advice. :help:

Art SC

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Situation:
Shelle wants the spare room back for guests. But I will still need to store our MD equipment in there. Right now everything in spread out all over the place. The main thing is to get the bulky things up off the floor.

Mission:
Find something to 1) store the scoops, diggers, pouches, headphones, pinpointers, etc. in a compact, yet easy access area and 2) figure out how to hang 3 light weight Metal Detectors up off the floor.

Progress to date:
[attachment 26963 Lockers.JPG]
Yesterday, I got an old multiple PE verticle locker (5 sm lockers shown above) in pretty good shape for just $2, so that will take care of Mission 1; but now I still need to hang the 3 detectors to acccomplish Mission 2. How do I do that?!! :shrug:

Ideally, I'd like to get some sort of padded hook (sorta shaped sorta like a large tuning fork) that I could put into the dry wall to simply hang them. But I'm not sure if there is a way to do that or even if there is even such a hook that would support the detector.

Anybody have other ideas? I am in NO way a carpenter or even very mechanically adept. A free-stand on the floor is NOT an option! :nono: Shelle wants the floor space. :(

Thanks for the help. :thumbup:

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Sounds like what i hang my electric guitar on and there padded,they have the shape of a tuning fork and can be mounted to the wall.
 
Go to Ace, Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. and you will find a Crawford Storage Hook, item # SS22. I use them in my shop and love em...all you have to do is mark and then drill 2 1/16" holes and then screw them onto the wall... plastic covered, so there will be now problems. Hope this works...RichardnTn Backwoods Detector Sales
 
I agree with fargo and richard..storage hooks from the hardware store or guitar hooks from guitar center.Personally I'd go with the electric guitar hook that you can get at a guitar center or music store as these devices usually have more padding.Most of the hooks they sell at the music stores for guitars are usually covered in a thick ,soft rubber membrane that wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of damaging your metal detector.Guitarists usually treat their guitars like their babies or an extension of themselves which in a way is what it is..so you can trust that they wouldn't trust the storage of said guitars to an inferior storage medium. They are designed to cup the guitar right underneath the headstock and the control box on a metal detector is just a bit bigger or the same size as the headstock on a guitar.I doubt there is a better solution.
 
the same stores also sell bicycle hooks for storage.... screw them into the ceiling joists and hang the detectors above your head.... (that'll keep the floor space):thumbup:
 
My first thought when I saw your locker was that you could have a metal fab. shop make a door for you that would replace 3 or 4 of the small doors. Take the shelves out in that area and hang your detectors inside the locker, saving one or maybe two compartments for your gear. Like a gun safe.
I work in the fabrication bussiness and making a new door would be easy and shouldn't cost much. It's just a piece of metal with a bend around the edge for strength. A few nuts and bolts and you've got it. You could hook several of the existing doors together so they swing all at once which might be easier. Granted, my idea is a bit of a project but it would be one tidy compact storage unit.
 
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