TTG Modular Standing / Hanging Paint Rack

We highly recommend assembling the basic frame of the rack with no glue at first, just to get a feel for how the paint rack goes together.

Then, once you’re familiar with how it goes together, we recommend using a standard white wood glue which dries translucent for best results. We don’t recommend using superglue as the set time is too quick. We do also recommend using a few pieces of masking tape to hold the rack pieces together tightly once glued until the glue dries. This will prevent any gaps.

STEP 1

Paying close attention to the orientation of the side-wall pieces (as shown above), slide the top and bottom walls into place. Please note that the top wall piece has the extra two notches near the back which allow the rack to connect with the wall hanger bracket. Also note that the side pieces have a notched out section at the top for the wall hanger bracket as well.

STEP 2

With the four walls of the rack attached and with the rack laying flat on your table, place the back wall of the paint rack on top, carefully aligning all of the tabs to make the back wall slide into them. You may need to wiggle the sides and top parts a little bit to get the angles square and then the back piece will slide snugly into place.

STEP 3

Stand the paint rack up. Slide the three shelves into the unit carefully aligning them so that they are angled correctly while sliding them in. The shelves have two small tabs that slide into the back of the rack.

STEP 4

At this point if you haven’t already, I would recommend gluing all the assembled pieces with wood glue. Once you’ve glued the components, lay the rack flat on it’s face, as shown above, with all the shelves inserted. Usually at this step I will use a bit of masking tape to tape the sides to the back to get a nice, gapless fit. Also, I will place something slightly heavy on top of the back piece to hold it down on top of the tabbed shelves. I’ll give the glue 5-10mins to set before proceeding to the next step.

(NOTE: Before turning rack on it’s face, I will wipe off any excess glue on the front sides, so that it doesn’t drip down while being placed like this.)

STEP 5

This is the wall mounting bracket for the paint rack. Put a thin layer of glue wood glue between the two large pieces and push them together, squeezing out any excess glue that may be there. Then quickly, before the glue starts to dry use the four small connector pieces to lock the pieces together and ensure perfect alignment of the bracket.

At this point, it would be a good idea to wrap some masking tape around the two large pieces to hold them together tightly while the glue dries.

STEP 6

If you’re going to use the paint rack as a standing rack, you can now slide the two small feet pieces onto the bottom sides of the rack (shown above). These can just be slid on without glue if you want the option to mount the paint rack to a wall later. If you just want to use the rack as a standing rack and won’t ever mount it on the wall, you can glue these feet in place.

Once the glue on the rack and the hanging bracket is dry, you can attach the hanging bracket to the standing rack even if you’re not hanging the rack on the wall at this time. This will make sure you don’t misplace the bracket later. Do not glue the bracket to the rack, it’s best to keep it removable.

STEP 7

To hang the paint rack on the wall, mount the supplied mounting bracket using to your wall using standard screws and anchors (not included), and then carefully slide the rack onto the bracket at a 45 degree angle from the top. The rack will then slide down and hang vertically in place without needing to glue it to the wall mounting bracket.

Please note that the bracket and paint rack were designed to fit together snugly so that gluing them together wouldn’t be needed, so the two outer side pieces of the mounting bracket may need to be slightly and gently pushed apart for the rack to slide into place the first time.

STEP 8