donjuan831 wrote:peterpiper wrote:Although I'm sometimes a bit sceptical I'll have to say: Yes its stable 
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Are those the ikea shelving? If so, did you reinforce the shelfs in somehow to hold the weight of the records?
Thanks.
1. Yes Ikea Expedit
2. The expedit package include some mounting parts for the wall and ikea recommend to use it. I didnt cause I got baseboards in this room (to use the mounting parts the shelf need to touch the wall). But I used a ......damn how do you call this ......level.? water bubble level thing you know? and some extra layers of carpet on some spots under the shelf to get it as straight as possible.
But I also recommed to use the mounting parts if its possible. The expedit is stable but you'll never know. Even today. They always push down the production/material costs and so you might buy a shelf that just have a production error and crash when you put all the records in it.
Oh as you might have seen the 4x4 expedit didn't stand "free". One one side there is another expedit (2x4) and on the other side there is another shelf. So it really can't crash to the left or the right side as in these pics


Another thing you can see in these pics. The long boards on both of these 5x5!!! expedits are used vertically. I didn't find pics of crashed expedit with the long boards horizontally (on my expedits they are horizontally too).
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