Camera display

[AgX]

Cabinets with glass shelves I know have got studs with countless points to arrest the shelves at.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I wouldn't trust a thin glass pane to support the weight of too many cameras, especially heavier ones.

 

[sabredog]

I have weighed each camera to ensure that the total does not exceed the recommended weight for the shelves. Even so, I am considering getting thicker shelves cut to replace the existing shelves.

 

[MattKing]

I have weighed each camera to ensure that the total does not exceed the recommended weight for the shelves. Even so, I am considering getting thicker shelves cut to replace the existing shelves.

You could always double up the shelves, and then get more.

 

[AgX]

I have weighed each camera to ensure that the total does not exceed the recommended weight for the shelves.

I never got a glass table or glass shelf were a max. load was given. Good to learn that things have changed.

 

[sabredog]

Ikea recommend 3.5kg (8lb) maximum per shelf. The existing shelf glass is about 4mm, so going to 6mm will certainly improve loading. I won't be adding any more to each shelf display, so having that extra "buffer" will make me feel easier.

I am pretty sure that Ikea allow some leeway in that maximum and discussions on large popculture figure collector forums say much the same. Glass shelf failure seems to occur when a large centre weight (such as a large stature in the figure collectors example) is placed on one of the shelves. At least my display loading on the shelves is dispersed. Still, even with that, I am going to put in thicker shelves.

 

[sabredog]

Installed 5mm glass shelves to replace the top two 3mm glass shelves in the Detolf yesterday. According to online calculators for allowable weight on glass shelves (33kg for a 5mm 300mm x 300mm annealed glass shelf) and far more importantly the real world experience of the glazier, I am quite happy with the decision.

 

[AgX]

To avoid confusion:
"Annealed" glass is "standard" glass, in contrast to "tempered" (thermally hardened) glass.

(In Germany for instance there is no common designation similar to "annealed".)

 

[sabredog]

Thermally treated or toughened glass when broken will shatter into very small pieces, while annealed breaks into shards. The glazier I go to said for the size of the shelving (only 385mm span), toughened glass was overkill.