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How can I prevent the nuts in my shelving from coming loose?

Post fab, your only choice is threadlocker as Fred describes, or really, any sort of glue will do, maybe even nail polish. Pre-assembly, you use two nuts, and fix them by cranking them in opposi …
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How can I build shelves that are 66" wide?

Use Unistrut, such as A1001A or P6001A. Flat surface up. Several rows of it. Tie them together somehow - either tackweld them or tie them with rigid steel straps on the bottom which bolt into t …
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6 votes

Built-In Shelves/Bookcases - IKEA vs Built

You know perfectly well what it takes to design, build and finish shelving from scratch. …
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23 votes

How do I make around-the-room shelves for a seriously skewed room?

You don't. You transfer cut marks. You don't need to make a paper plan of your cuts. Just lay the shelves on each wall. Don't attempt to span a whole wall with 1 shelf board, it should always be …
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What screws should I use for my floating Ikea bookshelf?

Did they have chalk when you went to school? Soak newspaper in diluted Elmers glue, wrap it around a stick of chalk, let it dry, that's pretty much what drywall is. You wouldn't expect that to carry …
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25 votes

How do I know whether a bookcase will rack/sag/twist if hung using butt hinges as a (non-sec...

Do you really think that will work? Imagine you took the same model of bookcase, and screwed it to the wall edge-on* by driving screws through one sidewall of the bookcase into a vertical stud/struct …
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