I'm working on a hall wall worth of shelves and cabinets (see
a.b.p.w. The Next to the Next Off The Wall Project) and, rather
than take them to the floor and do moulding around the base,
I want to hang them 8 to 10" off the floor. I'll avoid doing a
boatload of miterer corners and coping - and make it easy to
get the dust bunnies that appear out of nowhere and hide
under things that make if difficult to capture and remove
them with a vacuum cleaner.

I like the idea of "french cleats" for hanging stuff off the wall.
I made wooden ones to hang the two wall hanging tool cabinets
in the shop. But for my first "house" furniture, I don't want
to screw two halves of a ripped 2x4 into the studs on the
wall and waste hall space to accomodate them in the back
of the shelves.

SO - I saw some "z clips" in aluminum on the Lee Valley site

http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/pa...715,43716&ap=1

The tallest shelf unit will be 6' tall, 28" wide and 12" deep.
It'll be out of english sycamore which has a density in
the rock maple range - about 46 pounds/cubic foot and
the shelf wood will be about 2.2 cubic feet - about 100
pounds - without any books. The books could add another
100 pounds.

I'm only going to be able to catch two studs to screw into
and the Z clip stock is 3 1/8" tall by 3/16" thick so I can
get two screws into each stud.

So my question:
Will these things support 200+ pounds if done as described
above? I REALLY don't want this thing to come off the wall
- figuratively and literally.

charlie b