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Making removable shelves for DIY bookcase Anonymous 07/25/20 (Sat) 23:56:04 No.5501

Alright, I'm a complete newb when it comes to DIY. I wanted to build 2 small bookcases to use as a left and right leg for a desk.

I wanted to have the shelves be removable (in case I wanted to store something bigger in the case).

I wanted to nail or screw a strip of wood to the inside of the left/right side of the bookcase (see pic for small demo).The idea is to put the shelves on top of those strips without any other method of supporting them (no other nails, screws or glue).

That way, I could slide in/out the shelves. Would this be sufficient to hold a few books? The shelve would only be 15-16 inches long and 11 inches deep.

As an additional question, would it be fine if I glue everything else together without using nails or screws? Ie. glue the side panels to the back panel and then glue those 3 to a bottom panel and a top panel.

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Anonymous 07/26/20 (Sun) 22:19:20 No.5618

I work at a library, and I've installed shelving exactly the way you mentioned. It will work fine for decades. 36" shelves 28" deep loaded with 140lb of crap hold just fine with wooden cleats.

If you prep right, and have nice flat, clean surfaces, glue works great. If you're a lazy, worthless george floyd who gets chicken fat on everything and can't make a decent straight cut to save your life, you're fucked.

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Anonymous 07/27/20 (Mon) 02:14:22 No.5642

Making straight cuts with hand tools is hard. Op needs to decide his maximum tolerances before he begins cutting or he might be off by 1/5 inch here and there causing his final design to be lopsided or offset by 12/17 of an inch and preventing any precision gluing from taking hold.

tldr: Use nails. Lots of them.

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Anonymous 07/27/20 (Mon) 02:16:14 No.5644

The wood in your picture has significant levels of formaldehyde emissions so be sure to air out your shelves for six months before using.

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Anonymous 07/27/20 (Mon) 02:17:50 No.5645

Your proposed method of making shelves is generally considered a normal method but the boards you are using for the sides will warp and buckle quickly.

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Anonymous 07/27/20 (Mon) 19:48:43 No.5916

14 inch 5/8" lag bolts. Epoxy the threads.

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Anonymous 07/28/20 (Tue) 02:18:32 No.6024

>epoxy the treads

Hold on, Satan. Op is making a shelf not a tank.

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Anonymous 07/28/20 (Tue) 09:06:21 No.6049

Op here. I am kind of making a tank as well. I left that part out.

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Anonymous 07/28/20 (Tue) 10:11:24 No.6053

Always good to prepare for the race war

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Anonymous 07/28/20 (Tue) 10:13:02 No.6054

Carry on then good sir! Epoxy those treads and mount your K-brackets on 5/13 inch gaskets!

God speed.

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Anonymous 07/28/20 (Tue) 11:29:54 No.6060

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what armaments does it have, anon?

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