The scrap wood shelf bracket I drilled wrong for 2 years straight

I kept bolting shelf brackets to the underside of my desk top in a 30 minute install, only to have them crack the glue joints every time I leaned on the edge. Last month I flipped the brackets around so the long arm faces the wall instead of the floor, and now all my monitor weight sits on the flat part instead of pulling against the screws. Has anyone else had luck reversing the bracket direction on a hollow core desk, or did I just get lucky with a thick pine top?

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beth87813d ago

Ha! Okay that actually makes so much sense now that I think about it. I've totally been there with the whole "force it until something cracks" approach to furniture, which is why my desk has like four different screw holes that don't line up with anything anymore lol. Flipping the bracket sounds backwards at first, but honestly if it's holding your monitors without destroying the glue joints, you hit the jackpot. I did something similar with a cheap bookshelf once where I just turned the whole thing upside down and it worked way better than the instructions said it should. The hollow core thing is tricky though, mine's got that honeycomb cardboard inside so I ended up just adding a solid wood block behind the bracket point. Probably not the smartest fix but two years later it's still standing, so I'll take the win.

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