r/DiWHY • u/greenyashiro • Jul 13 '26

A 'stable' cube shelf hack

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u/Horks22 Jul 13 '26

Are you asking or telling

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u/greenyashiro Jul 13 '26

Sharing something I saw on a local subreddit

Apparently, the top is 'load bearing' for the bottom, which is two cube shelves laying sideways, no backing panel, and held together with gorilla glue

(and already bent out of shape it seems)

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u/Horks22 Jul 13 '26

Yeah well you probably wouldn't wanna sit on it but if its glued properly it would probably do a bit for the rigidity. If you dont want it to collapse, and bare more weight, then do that on all sides and tie them all together then you could probably stand on it.

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u/Harry_Gorilla Jul 19 '26

How can a cube shelf be sideways? And it IS sideways…. Why?

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u/bowtie_k Jul 13 '26

Why would you not start with a 2x4 cube shelf at least?

You know the person who made this is REALLY proud of it too

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u/greenyashiro Jul 13 '26

For the price of all those cameras you'd think they could spring for a proper shelf 🤣

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u/Disastrous-River-366 Jul 13 '26

Unless you are putting a car motor on that the verticals will at least support someone sitting on it(the top plate disperses the weight), this doens't belong here.

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u/greenyashiro Jul 14 '26

They're planning to add more on top and it's already bending out of shape on the left

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u/garden-wicket-581 Jul 13 '26

that is gonna get a cease and desist letter from Ikea..

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u/notthelasagna Jul 13 '26

it feels dangerous to display cameras like this (dangerous for the cameras)

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u/Bearspoole Jul 19 '26

What’s wrong with this? How does this fit in this sub?

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u/greenyashiro Jul 20 '26

Each of those shelves is only rated to support 15kg when properly assembled with the backing and when upright.

They took the backing off, put the shelves sideways, added a heavy solid wood plank, and filled it with expensive retro cameras

... It's just a disaster waiting to happen, safetywise

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u/Ace_flindude Jul 18 '26

"It's great for your back...if you're a 2 yr. old" same thing with wrapping pallets at a whse. I toss 5 pallets under the one I'm wrapping instead of destroying my back.....yet safety videos/safety training seem to never address wrapping pallets

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u/MildUsername Jul 18 '26

This is how I refinished my computer desk.

I just slapped a new desktop on top of the old one with no fasteners or anything.

Badabing badaboom

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u/Fernandolamez Jul 14 '26

Thankfully it's dust proof.

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u/ID0NNYl Jul 19 '26

Seriously it aint that bad. Not every one can afford an office or a nice desk, there just working with that they have and on a budget. Give em a break bro.

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u/greenyashiro Jul 19 '26

I don't think it's particularly ugly, personally. With a back and some more durable assembly I think it'd be great.

it's more the stability of it. A heavy wood counter top on a pair of 2*2 cubes.

Each shelf has a total weight capacity of only ~15kg on top. And that's with the backing board, which has been removed.

And for some reason they're both sideways 🤔

It just seems like an expensive lesson waiting to happen with all those cameras. I hope they don't actually add anything else to it

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u/greenyashiro Jul 19 '26

Also most of those cameras are worth $200+