[tommytwotone]

Bit of a long shot here but thought someone might be able to help...

In the course of moving I've realised that I stupidly left some of the small metal plugs that the shelves sit on in the racks that my ex-landlord had in situ before I moved in. Don't think I'll be able to get them back now as not listed on inventory etc.

I basically need enough for 5 shelves (which I still have), so that'd be 20. Just thought if anyone had a bunch spare if e.g. they'd configured theirs for DVD use (which would leave you load over) I'd be more than happy to taken them off your hands.

Cheers in advance!

[Bubba]

Might be worth getting in touch with IKEA customer services to see if they have spares?

[tomtom]

Wood (ha!) bits of doweling do the job? They dont have to take much weight?

[nik at work]

Are these the standard little metal pins that are used as shelf supports in lots of flat pack furniture? Or are they something specific to this item?

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

EBay is your friend. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=251086462481

[magpie]

Ikea used to have a set of little buckets at each customer service desk / pick up area full of all the random screws and wee metal bits so if you were missing bits you could pick up a few extras, failing that, if you go and explain to them they should just give them to you.  I've done it before for bits of a desk that went missing in a move, they were happy to give us what was missing.

[tomtom]

Buy an mp3 player and bin the cd's? No CDs no rack required

[namnok]

head to ikea,  if they dont have any at customer services head to bargain corner and see if there are any old salvagable bits. reward yourself with a hotdog

i love bargain corner, managed to save £200 by getting damaged boxed wardrobe carcasses for our house when we moved in a couple of years ago. and the hotdogs are great too

[tommytwotone]

Cheers all, will give Ikea customer service a shout and see.

...and T2 - having moved 3 times in the last 3 years I am seriously considering digitising my media - as you say a 1TB NAS Drive is a lot easier to pack and move than boxes and boxes of CDs!

In the course of googling for the bits I needed I stumbled across this, Ikea Hackers - people who start with the item and then mod it to their needs:

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

[andy_e]

That IKEA hackers is genius!

[cheque]

That IKEA hackers is genius!

 

"those shelves are used by a lot of people, like myself, to store records."

Innit. I imagine most DJ in the western world have Expedits! There's also someone who's converted them into a hamster home. Genius. I'm tempted to make a hybrid vinyl/ rodent one.

[namnok]

thinking of submitting my wardrobe hack

[DaveC]

Cheers all, will give Ikea customer service a shout and see.

There are loads of little bins with all these 'consumables' (eg shelf pins, dowels) in them near the returns desk (usually just after the check-out area) at all the IKEA stores I have been in. Just walk in an help yourself.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

I love Ikea hacks, my fave was a guy who turned a set of drawers into a server farm
http://helmer.sfe.se/

I've done a couple myself, used some curtain wires and shower curtains to make a horizontal blind for a glazed roof. My work was quoted £5k, I made it for £200.

[tommytwotone]

Boom - called up the Leeds branch and the fella's bunged some in the post for me gratis. What nice people.

[SA Chris]

. and the hotdogs are great too

Must be your local one. The ones at  the Edinburgh one are utterly rank.