How were these shelves built?

[Sylentwulf]

http://www.nescapades.com/gameroom_files/image012.jpg

He says he just used 2*6's, but what's holding them up/to the wall? I know I saw how to do this once on some home improvement show, but for the life of me neither me nor the wife can remember.

[Arcade Antics]

He says he just used 2*6's, but what's holding them up/to the wall?
He could have drilled into the studs, then drilled the 2x6s in the same increments, glued dowels into the 2x6s and inserted them into the studs. Tough to say whether that method would support that much weight though... depending on how they're distributed, maybe.

[kedawa]

I would say dowels or biscuits along the edge, and some serious support at the ends.

[Sylentwulf]

Those owuld have to be some VICIOUS dowels.

The way I remember it was mounting something akin to a 2*4 onto the wall for the length of the run, then this set around the 2*4 (or similar)

Anything over 4-5 feet and no amount of support on the ends is going to do ANYTHING for that much weight.

[Twitami]

When will you people learn that there is a solution to everything at Ikea!

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10103&storeId=12&langId=-1&productId=11326

That probably isn't what he used, but I have used them and they work great!

[Chronodriftersx]

Sylentwulf, maybe he has some thick 4X8 plywood panels across the back with a lot of big screws going into the 2X6's then from the you could screw the panels to the wall.

[Goodwill Hunter]

From the photo, this sure looks like a free-standing shelving unit with side boards holding up the shelves.

Rich

[Sylentwulf]

When will you people learn that there is a solution to everything at Ikea!

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10103&storeId=12&langId=-1&productId=11326

That probably isn't what he used, but I have used them and they work great!

Well, the closest Ikea is roughly 18 hours away from me I think (last time I checked)

And frankly, I HATE ikea from what I've seen of their online catalog. The link you sent is a 4 foot shelf.... that holds ELEVEN POUNDS. I think a few hundred NES games just might weigh closer to 110 pounds myself.

[godsey1]

It looks free standing to me also. Notice in the back of the picture where the 2 shelf's meet, the one in the very back has some of the games partly covered.

Tony

[Sylentwulf]

Bummer, if it's just free standing he's gonna have a rough shock in a year or 2. Even 2*6's are going to bow forward quite badly with no real support from the back, unless he has 2*6's covering the back with some nice long metal dowels, screws, nails, or SOME other kind of support.

[Chronodriftersx]

Is it possible man that he has so much stuff wedged in from top to bottob that it completely filled with no space for it to even bend with?

[punkoffgirl]

Bummer, if it's just free standing he's gonna have a rough shock in a year or 2. Even 2*6's are going to bow forward quite badly with no real support from the back, unless he has 2*6's covering the back with some nice long metal dowels, screws, nails, or SOME other kind of support.

Isn't it possible he could have made a free standing shelving unit, but then attached it to the wall for support?

[Sylentwulf]

Is it possible man that he has so much stuff wedged in from top to bottob that it completely filled with no space for it to even bend with?

heheh actually I had thought of that, he may have done just that :) Gonna be HELL to pull one of those games out some day though.


Isn't it possible he could have made a free standing shelving unit, but then attached it to the wall for support?

That would give the entire structure support, but wood is going to bow down under that much weight unless it has some kind of full support front to back every few feet on the shelves themselves, and that thing is looking to be a good 6-8 feet in length.

Think of those cheapass book cases from walmart. The mdf has side supports, is only 2-3 feet wide, and it's usually nailed to a backerboard, but if you put 10 pounds worth of stuff on it, it will bow in the front horrible within 3-4 months.

Granted these shelves are at least 10 times as strong as that crappy mdf sauder uses, but there's going to be at least 10 times as much weight as well.

[Flack]

They sell 6"x6" metal angle brackets that are essentially flat. It's possible that there are supports on each shelf going into wall studs. Enough of those would support the weight, and would be thin enough that you would not see them once games were added to the shelves. It does look nice though, very flush and shallow. I've been thinking of building something like that on the wall where my projector screen goes, and then hanging the projector on the front of it. I'd only be adding 6" of space and the storage would be invisible while the screen was pulled down.

[Sylentwulf]

Those 6*6 brackets are PROBABLY what I'll end up using. The unbelievably strong ones the use for building houses or decks. They'll be invisible enough I suppose, just not what I'd hoped for.