[78-L] Making of 78 Shelving

[maceo]

Hi Iñigo,

Thanks for the detailed reply, looking online locally it appears the 
Expedit range is no longer available, and is replaced by
the Kallax product, which appears similar, however looking at the Ikea 
range online the Billy product also seems similar which includes
a back board with a better depth dimension for 78's.

http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/S39023411/

Food for the thought, only disadvantage for me is the dividers seem a 
bit wide as only housing 78's & nominal height is  a tad tall. Maybe 
something can be configured locally to resolve this by routing the extra 
dividers myself.

Might consider further as there is no IKEA within a 4 hour drive :-(

Thanks again,

Gary
> I am currently using (since 2000 when I assembled it) the IKEA EXPEDIT
> model shelf with 25 cells. It holds approximately 2,500 78s (actually more
> than 100 78s when the cells are tightly loaded). This is IKEA, but I want
> to say that the shelf is there almost 15 years after installed !
> The good thing is that the construction of the shelves is the good one for
> heavy records: the horizontal shelves are the long ones, running all the
> shelf width, and the vertical dividers are cutting the span of the long
> shelves. Thus, no sagging.
>
> Be careful with the four border boards; they seem 5 cm thick, but indeed
> they are thin double-boards filled with paper. Nevertheless, the
> construction of the shelf is so clever that there is no problem to load
> with 78s. Even I have moved mine from one room to another twice in these
> years.
>
> A couple of tricks: One is to replace the small plastic pads that come in
> with the set, to act as legs below the lower border. It is better to use
> thick (3-4 mm) adhesive felt pads located just under each vertical line of
> dividers (one at the front and another at the back); these dividers carry
> all the weight of records down to the floor!
>
> Another trick is to buy 2 mm tablex board of the same color as the shelf
> (mine is white) and carefully nail the boards to the back of the shelves
> all along. The IKEA EXPEDIT is a transparent shelf; it has no backing. The
> board covers the entire back of the shelf, and helps to stiffen the whole
> structure, instead of using the four weak corner metal stiffeners that come
> with the set.
>
> Besides that, i did not worry too much for the weight, given that the shelf
> is placed against a wall. The actual weight of 78s is near 150 gr each, so
> the entire shelf weights 400 kg (800 lb). This is not too much, as it is
> the weight of a hollow brick wall of the same size, or like a sofa with 5
> men. The weight is like if you doubled the partition wall.
>
> Another nice thing is that the shelf cells are sized 35 x 35 x 35 cm (13.8
> inches) so you can put your 12" inside, and record albums too.
>
> Iñigo Cubillo
> Madrid SPAIN
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