Bar and Microwave Rack

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Hello everybody!

I present to you a bar and a microwave rack for a small kitchen. It is made with simple cheap parts from the building supply store. Planks, rebar, a steel strip and a few bolts and rings. It is all welded together and fixed to the wall with 8mm wall plugs and screws. Some paint is added to make sure it is up for the job of being a bar.

A video is added on how to bend the metal strip and make it into a 90 degree steel profile. There are holes in the steel strip so you can weld the rabar to it on the rear. Its probably best to weld the 2 pieces of rebar together (on 3 points of 2 inch welds (the middle and the middle of the middle)) before attaching it to the 90 degree strip. That ensures everything will fit fine, so you wont have to fool around trying to weld the two rebar pieces together. The reason there are 2 pieces of rebar at the bottom brackets is because there is called buckling of columns. So you need more material for compression (if you have long spans) and less material for tension (of course that also depends on the kind of material). With steel this is the case. And that is why the bottom brackets have 2 pieces of rebar instead of 1, like the top brackets.

Some parts of the engineering process are also added. Today i added the rabar file, and now the bar and microwave rack are complete.

The height of the bar is 100cm, it is designed to go with 3 80cm high bar stools. The bar is 160cm x 42cm. The microwave rack is designed so you can put 2 60cm wide microwaves next to each other. The microwave rack is 130cm x 56cm. The space available is 164cm length, 114cm wide and 266cm high. It all fits and you can do your normal kitchen duty.

Best results will be gotten if you use 2 component paint, while its the most resistant to abrasion.

Get a mitre saw for the planks, otherwise the results wont be as good.

I did not add screw to the disign, while you want see them when everything is painted. Screw the planks together from both sides to get the best results, add wood putty to fill up the holes.