So my main issue with this drying rack is the brackets the cabinet doors sit in are too close together causing me to touch the brackets above if I’m trying to load the doors on from the top down. If I load from bottom up I have touched my door that is below the door I’m putting on the rack…
It’s not a bad idea but the execution was a bit of a fail. Kinda seems like people that have never had to be efficient while spraying cabinet doors built this. What I mean by that is if you’re moving fast it’s too compact and too easy to mess up your perfectly painted doors causing you to have to fix the door before the next coat of paint.
The doors did not stick to the shelves which is a huge plus.
The rack has the brackets a little too far apart to fit a drawer 17” wide or smaller and let’s face it, most drawers are under 17” in a kitchen unless they’re big drawers. This kinda made the drying rack useless because I had to take up countertop space to dry the drawer fronts.
They should have spent the extra $5 during manufacturing to give the adequate spacing between the brackets on the drying rack so you don’t mess up your beautifully painted doors.
They should make adapters for the rails that allow the door to be fully sprayed both sides and then carried over with a special carrying system that allows you to place the doors ontop of the drying rack with the adapters (similar idea to painting triangles but more like a non stick pin system) so you can get 2x the work done much faster and less setting up sprayers and cleaning them and sitting around waiting for paint to dry. If stacked from the bottom up this design would work perfectly with a little bar that sits inside of cabinet door hinge cut outs and a little tool that has pins and just slides under the door so you can carry it with 1 hand holding the pole that’s between the hinges and 1 hand holding the special tool that has pins and holds the front of the door securely. If they just attached non stick spikes like the old school spike belts onto the brackets but smaller that would be a great improvement and would make this drying rack a lot more time efficient and less waste of paint/primers/sprayer cleaning products by not having to clean the sprayer between spraying each side of the doors.
Installing directional fans above the drying rack would be great to eliminate the dust particles from falling on the doors when you are spraying other doors. I know a dust extraction system is great for this but not everyone is able to use a dust extraction system in there setup that creates negative pressure. I’m sure they will think of something that’s better suited for cabinet doors drying process. Verticals Fans in the center of the drying rack to help speed up the drying process by a little bit would be nice aswell.
I’m sure no one will ever see this or will make corrections and give customers who purchased the original drying rack the newly upgraded one for free… I don’t think I would buy it again. I would buy a vertical hanging door system if I was to buy another drying rack.
The drying rack is well balanced and doesn’t lean or tilt. The price is fair for the drying rack, it’s sturdy and light weight, easy to put together and very quick. It should come with a padded carrying case with a pocket for the bolts and wingnuts. The drying rack brackets are nice and level so you don’t need to worry about the doors moving after you have sat them down on the drying rack
Another thing that I would change is I would add a location on the front of each drying rack bracket set where you can write what number each door is so you can draw a quick sketch of the kitchen showing the location of each door so you don’t mix them up and forget the location when you go to hang the back up.
Rollers under the drying rack with locks would also be a good idea so you can roll the doors to a separate part of the kitchen you are spraying in incase your in a compact room and need to access something that’s behind the drying rack without having to lift up the entire rack full of doors and move it.
Adding some lights below the brackets would be great so you can put the doors on the racks and see if there are any imperfections without needing to pick up each door and inspect it from multiple angles.
There’s a bunch of more ideas I have on how to improve this unit but you know.. costs too much to manufacture (only costs a few dollars during the manufacturing process but it wouldn’t reflect a high enough profit margin for it to be worth it for the company) So I think I’m going to take it upon myself to upgrade my drying rack or just buy the vertical hanging drying rack off Amazon as they’re less than half the cost of this drying rack.
If you ever make a new design let me know, I could be interested in testing it out and sending you back the demo drying rack when I’m done doing some tests.
