u/ScabieBaby

Dont buy the cube storage things i don’t know about ikea ones but the walmart/ target once will break and fall apart. So that radiator to the right save about 25k worth of records. Thankfully the cube thing when right not left

I was tired of storing records in crates and boxes, while my husband didn’t want to spend an arm and a leg on storage, I put this together. It’s metal crates from Amazon, for like 25$ and I reinforced everything to hold the weight with an ungodly amount of zip ties. I added thin board that I made decorative fabric covers for. All together I spent maybe 35$ putting this together. It’s worked for now as a quick solution. Definitely temporary. My worry is if this set up is potentially causing damage to my records? I have two other shelves that were gifted to me for records but they’re mostly for looks as they don’t hold more than maybe 80ish records at a time. I could add them to this shelf so that each record is standing straight up rather than leaning. Should I abandon ship and go back to the crates? Add to it? Helpful feedback would be appreciated. I love music and vinyl, but I’m not the most knowledgeable about the technical side of it and considering the amount of money I’ve put into it I want to take better care of my collection.