Thank you Al for taking the time to share this great light stand with all of us!! I haven't tried it yet but I did save these instructions a while back. I am sure many others are grateful for your sharing as well.
Happy Holidays!
Ginny

I made this stand three years ago and have used it to start seeds indoors for the past three years. I used scrap plywood to form shelves since my seed starting flats are rather flimsy. This also allows me to place heating pads under my flats for bottom warmth.

This stand took DH and I about four hours to assemble and cost us about $75.00, lights and all.

Tip: Don't glue the pieces together. This allows you to take it apart for storage when no longer in use.

........Jan

Jan,

"Don't glue the pieces together. This allows you to take it apart for storage when no longer in use."

That's a good tip. But I would think you could glue some of the pieces together for a more secure assembly, and still leave a few selected joints unglued for ready disassembly.

I considered building PVC light stands, but elected to purchase commercial chrome steel wireframe shelves instead. They didn't cost much more than the PVC shelves would have, and are much stronger. They look good, too, and it is handy to roll them about on their big lockable casters.

And when the plant growing season is over, the steel shelves are handy for lots of other things, because their shelves won't bend under a sizable load. My wife appropriated one of them to use in the kitchen to store lots of stuff on. I guess I will have to buy another shelf this year because she doesn't want to give that one up. (grin)

MM

Does anyone know what happened to the link for the light stand? Anyone have a copy??

I came across this via Google...

http://www.walterreeves.com/how_to/article.phtml?cat=26&id=354

I don't know if it's the same plan, but it looks very cost-effective!

That's nothing like the original PVC plant stand in this thread, which was much larger, taller, and had more than one shelf.

MM

The original plant stand was something similar to these plans.

MM

THAT'S the one I was looking for! Thanks MM!
Martha

If there is a Lowe's in your area, they have a pvc shelf unit (4 shelves X 3'L) that works good and at $20, I couldn't build it. You could hang 3' long lights , but I just hung 4' shop lights ($8 each) and let 'em hang over! PVC unit no doubt a little stronger, but for something I only use a couple of months a year, it suits me fine. It disassembles too.