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Not done anything quite the same, but screwing extra shelves in with standard chipboard screws should be fine. My IKEA Biily/Benno/Gnedby conglomeration is held together with standard chipboard screws and is pretty sturdy.
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standard chipboard screws
I think my google is failing. In screwfix etc I just find standard timber screws and then eyeballing to see which have coarser thread.
This is the arrangement I want with the CD shelf on the wall. The 3 'hanging' points for the lower shelf are about 1m apart so I think I'll add an extra partition in each side glued and screwed. Plenty of those little shelves left now anyway.
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I have a couple of Ikea Benno CD towers that I want to mount on the wall horizontally as shelves. The sides of the tower which will become the shelves are birch-faced chipboard and fixed at 3 points (top, bottom, middle fixed shelf).
I was thinking to simply rest it on some twin slot brackets (some more shelving is going above and could extend the uprights down), but given it feels fairly study I'm now thinking of using French cleats to fix directly to the wall, it'll look cleaner. The sides/shelves protrude slightly past the backing board which gives enough room to hide the cleat.
My concern is that the 'upper' shelf will be supported and the 'lower' shelf will be hanging from these 3 points. Anyone done something similar? It's CDs going back in so not massively heavy. Wondering if it's worth screwing in a few more of the loose shelves (the little square ones) to act as dividers and more contact points, but not sure if regular screws will do much in chipboard or just pull out. The ones Ikea use have that massive thread on them.