Stacking records two-high - any problem with this?

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I'm at the breaking point here, and until I figure out alternate means of storage, I'm stacking LPs in the closet two-high - that is, one stack in the accepted 'upright against other records' fashion, and then a second row on top of these. I don't think there will be any 'weight' issues, since no one record underneath will have to bear any more weight than another record. I wonder, though, why I've never seen anyone else do this, including record stores with an excess of dollar bin overstock, so there must be some kinda problem with this method. What is it, though? How much damage could I do?

― Make The Music Go Bang (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

you can smoosh stuff that way. don't put records on top of other records. or at least not for long.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://i1.tinypic.com/48ntx7b.jpg

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

I have my records like this, kind of. The fittings holding up a shelf broke, so I currently have one row of records sitting on a loose shelf, whose weight is carried by a lower row. I thought it would be okay for a while because my simple sums told me that each record would be bearing the weight of only one other, as you say. However, I'm still gonna buy some new shelves soon.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

The main problem is that it's tough (on the sleeve) to pull out a record from the lower row.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

img src="http://www.jaredwood.com/g/card_house.jpg" />

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jaredwood.com/g/card_house.jpg

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

you need to refine your technique

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

That picture is spooky, man: he hasn't capped it off with the final triangle yet! And if he managed it, wouldn't we be seeing the picture of that? It's like a celebratory picture of impending failure.

P.S. if I were stacking records like this I think I would at least slip a sheet of cardboard between them, or something, just to help distribute the weight evenly and hopefully make it possible to pull records from the bottom row without everything sliding around. (I also wouldn't do this unless the records were packed tight enough that none of the ones on the bottom could lean at all, and all weight was coming straight down on them.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

How hard is it to, you know, hang another shelf?

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

i just wouldn't do that because it'd be a pain in the ass to get the shit on this bottom.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

"shit on this bottom".

wow. i think that was the best typing error ever. "shit off of the bottom" is what i meant. i am gasping at my fingers' ability to magically type stupid things.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

"...a pain in the ass to get the shit on this bottom."

Yeah. Sometimes mixed metaphors are our friends.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://991.com/newgallery/Robbie-Williams-Intensive-Care-337949.jpg

which side ya gonna pick?

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

Just steal some bricks and boards from a construction site and make a second shelf. It's not worth the risk to your wax cylinders.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

I've always heard that if records are lying/stacked face down they warp quicker. Probably because of the extra pressure/weight added to each of them...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

I bought a sturdy, 4-shelf extendable unit from Ikea ... started with wooden shelves, one of which split, so realised why a metal alternative was offerred. I only mention this in the thread because it was so cheap and easy to transport.

Re stacking, the only record I've ever had warp on me was my copy of Ca Plane Pour Moi; I lent it to some kid at school, and he put it in his bag and went to the chippy ... sticking his takeaway alongside it.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

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