I sacrificed a level and didn't bother with a HLT for my kit. I didn't want anything to tall and unstable because of the hot water danger etc. I can actually roll my stand around while it is full without any dramas. Why I'd want to do that exactly I'm not sure.......but last time I was brewing on the back porch and it started raining it was handy to be able to move it 6 feet to stop the sky topping up my brew kettle. The brewboy stand.
I'm keen as all hell to see how Doc's stand turned out, I used to sit in the server room where I used to work and wonder about all the great things one could make with a rack. I could have grabbed about 20 of them at one point as they were being replaced, but at the time had nowhere to put them. I reckon the rack is the easiest but hardest part about building a brewery because you have to start deciding where everything has to go before you start building it. Mine has had a couple of mods since I built it, and there are a couple to come to make it a bit better.
C'mon Doc, pictures please? You're going to start a rack revolution.