 Ooh, what do you think? Do you like my rack? Kind of an upside down pyramid of CRTs here. You looking good on here? Or what? I know I don't look that good. All right everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today I've got a review on a rack. That's right. How exciting. We're going to review a rack. In all seriousness, we are looking at the Trinity Rack. Now this is a rack I found from Costco. It cost me personally 120 US dollars. And that's one thing I want to get across here when I do product reviews for you guys. I don't normally take on sponsored items to review here on the channel. This was again something I paid for with my own money. That way I can give you an honest and true review of this product because I'm like you. I had to pay to get it on my own. So there's no bias as far as if I got this product for free or anything. Nope, I paid for it all with my own money. Another disclaimer. I did buy this from Costco, which many of you will not be able to buy because you're not a member at Costco or you don't have a Costco in your area. So you may be able to find this. Again, it's called the Trinity Rack and it's a metal wire rack. Looks pretty generic, but this one I know is higher quality because Costco generally doesn't take on products that are on the lower quality end and offer them in the store. All right, let's get into the rack and take a look at it from the perspective of buying it, opening it up, and seeing what you get inside your box. So this is the Trinity Rack. That's right, Trinity Rack. We're going to assemble this thing. Now, this is a rack that can be on wheels or not be on wheels. You have a couple different setups about it, but it's one of these high quality wire steel racks. I'm going to do two shelves and we'll do one with wheels, one without. We're going to set it up down here in the bunker for extra storage for PVMs and CRTs and tubes. And this is what you get. You have a couple bags, one here with a bunch of pieces to build the rack. Then you have a bag full of the wheels. And then all you get are the racks themselves, which are nice. You get a total of six of those and then eight rods. So I'm going to break this down even further and start building this. We'll see how it looks. So far, this has been pretty easy. I'm about to move on to the stage where I add the two shelves. To do this, you just screw on your wheels here and you need to make sure though that you have the wheels. I believe this is right, having the brakes on the same side for them to be most effective. That way you can lock down one side. And then the other side has no brakes on it. It's just the wheels. And then those are just screwed right into the bottom post. That's all threaded. Then this is slid on here under the first setting. And you have to use these little clips, clip them in the slots, and then it uses weight and pressure to hold this shelving in place. So I'm going to put two more shelves on this. I should be able to just slide this second shelf over top of this and hopefully everything will work out just like that. Here we go. Try to do it all the way up kind of as high as I can. Clips in there like that. Clips in there like that. It doesn't go all the way together because you're going to put that pressure and weight on there with the actual shelf. I'm also going to come in here and I'm going to stop up the top like that since I'm not actually going to be making this into a tall shelf. All right, let's stick the final shelf up top here. And it should fit over nicely just like that. Wow, this is actually much taller than I thought it was going to be. Wow, that feels really solid. We've got one final shelf to put on here and then we should be done building. Yeah, here we go. That looks pretty good. This new rack fits in here quite nicely, actually almost perfectly right in this spot. And I wanted to make sure that I had it high enough to fit 20 inch CRTs on the bottom shelf. Maybe two of them, but my issue is these racks are just wire racks and I believe that over time a lot of weight on this will actually cause those to buckle and bend. And I don't really want to do that. I want to do something to reinforce that. But I wanted to make one note here. These are nice, these little tabs or feet on the bottom here because you can use these to actually level out your rack. And as you can see, it's really solid. It's not moving after I've got it set perfectly. But I need to go in here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to get a piece of wood on each one of these shelves that needs to be no bigger than probably 17 inches. And then this direction it needs to fit within the ends. So it's going to need to be no bigger than 44. So it needs to be 44 inches by 17 inches. And I need probably, well to be honest with you, I'm going to need six of them. Let's go see what I can find up in the storage area. I did manage to find an old piece of wood out here at the shop and I'm going to use this. Now this is a total of 78, almost 79 inches in this direction. And to make it easy on myself, I'm going to cut this right down the center and then I'll have a little over 39 inches on each side and that'll fit into the shelves. On this edge, let's see what we've got. And this edge we've got four feet. Well, thankfully, this is not about precision because I don't even own a table saw. And we're going to have to do this with just a skill saw. But hopefully I can get it done, make it look good. I'm going to cut it down into a couple of shelves. I might be able to get a three stack on each one of these. If I get them to about 16 inches, then I'll have all my shelves I need from these two pieces of wood. All right, I'm going to cut 16 inches on this line and then we'll have a shelf here. Not exactly straight down here, but that shouldn't be an issue. I'll sand these edges and then make a couple more of these. All right, my first three shelves are ready. Again, this is nothing about precision here. So hopefully they'll fit in there, right? Let's just install them on the rack and see how it looks. Well, check it out. This is our rack and I've got everything packed on here the way kind of envisioned it. You can tell I've got my bigger PVMs down here on the lower shelf. I don't think it would be smart to put these 20 inches on the top shelf. But it will probably hold it because they only weigh about 80 pounds a piece. And then that board under there is going to prevent that bottom shelf from giving and hopefully from bending. And on the middle shelf, I have a bunch of BVM cards, some test equipment, and that's pretty much it. But this is a good way for me to keep these things organized now. For when I'm testing stuff, I can come in here and quickly grab something. And then finally, up top, I'm going to be storing two to three PVMs that are the 13 inch and then more testing tools. So you're a tube tester, then degausser, and then of course, like a worthless thing like this Ender Pro printer, which is nothing more than a big paperweight at this point, I have to eventually try to get that back incorporated into the shop. But it's such a such a bad 3d printer. I really don't like it. And then here's my lovely wheeled shelf. And I'm really happy so far with the way this has all turned out. It's going to help me a lot here in the shop. So I've got my rack completed here. This is the rolling rack. We're going to move it here in a second. But I do have kind of a top heavy just to see how it holds up. And it's holding up great. I have the wood shelving down there on the bottom two rows, but I didn't want to put it up here up top because I was afraid these CRTs may slip. And we don't want that to happen. We don't want to slip a ball off or anything. So I've done that. Now I'm just going to move them a little bit so you can see how easy this rolls, especially on this nice, concrete floor. It rolls perfectly. No problems. Very stable. Unless I try to move it with the PVMC, that's easy to try to push that. You can just push it right off. Lock these wheels down if you need to. And just turn them both off. And then if you try to move it, it's not moving. Now with one side locks, you could still move this other side a little bit like that. But that's other side down here is locked up. And it's doing well. I'm very impressed with it. To be honest with you, it wasn't too expensive. And the fact that you get two of them, that's really nice. That one over there is doing well. So as this one, and this greatly expands my ability to just hoard more CRTs. All right, let me give you some final thoughts on this rack as I've been able to use it now for a little bit of time and I have it set up and I have it full of CRTs. I will tell you that it does a really good job as it's set up now to hold his CRTs, especially that permanent one that is not rolling around. It can sit there and hold those larger CRTs on the bottom level. And then I can fill up the middle and top level with things too because I'm not worried about it toppling over or moving around at all. The other rack has been also very helpful since it's on wheels. I can move it around a lot. It's going to be more of the lighter rack. It's going to have less CRTs on it. Normally, I mean right now it's loaded up with a bunch, but normally it's going to have less. I'll be able to move this around the shop and use it easily on shows and things to showcase multiple CRTs at once and have them safely movable around. So that rack is very versatile and helpful. Alright the other thing to say is that it doesn't come with any wood shelves and I would not recommend using this long term again with CRTs without that wooden shelf because I do feel like those metal shelves will start to droop and that's really a problem with other lower quality shelving that you use over time. The stress and weight of those CRTs, it's so heavy and dense, it begins to bend on those shelves and you end up with a U shaped shelf and then the CRTs lean towards each other and it's just a recipe for eventually collapsing and failing and it doesn't look good, it doesn't look stable. So you do have to have that wood. Now if you wanted to go to a hardware store and get this wood cut, you could do so. I bet you would be able to do the same thing for 20 to 30 dollars here in the United States from a hardware store to have that piece of wood cut for you and the shelves more precise than what I did. Alright the last thing I want to say is where did I mess up in this. I did not wear safety goggles when I was using my skillsaw so you could beat me up in the comments for doing that. Aside from that I don't think I really messed up on anything else. The rack again is a great deal for me because I have a need for that kind of a rack and it really meets every need for me and checks every box but I have other racks like big ones again for those heavier duty things that go all the way to the ceiling in here and then the lower quality ones to hold lighter shelving stuff, lighter equipment like consoles and things like that. I don't need the heavy duty shelf for that so that's what I wanted to do is give you kind of an overview of this rack. I felt like it was worth the money that I paid for it and then if you feel like this is something that you need I recommend getting one. It is going to help me a lot here in my work at the shop and that's really all there is to it. I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do me a favor and leave a like and tell me what you think of this rack if you have any other racks that you'd recommend but go ahead feel free to mention any racks that you like in the comments below I'll leave that open-ended for everybody so you can laugh about that. Anyway thank you again for joining me today and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content.