On 2/24/2010 2:50 PM, Nova wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:03:29 -0500, the infamous Nova
scrawled the following:


Chris Friesen wrote:

On 02/23/2010 02:08 PM, Ed Lowenstein wrote:


I've done a lot of 3 inch thick shelves whre I could fabricate a cleat
screwed into studs and slip the shelf over the cleat. Now the shelf is
a 7/8 inch thick 5 foot slab of Sapele.. maybe 5 inches deep. Can I
make a cleat or does somebody make one I can use for this
application?? I would think I need metal here. Thanks much


Others have mentioned the blind supports from LV. They're supposed to
be for 1" thick shelves though, so the metal plate might be visible in
your case.

One other option would be to counterbore part way through the width of
the shelf at each stud, with a clearance hole the rest of the way
through from the other side, and then put a long lag screw into each
stud. You could then either plug the holes or laminate a strip along
the front edge to cover them up.

Chris

...or run a long lag part way into the wall studs, cut off the with
your new Harbor Freight Multi-Function Power Tool, and mount the
shelf as with the LV supports.


I've cut screen door tin with the HFMF half-moon tool blade, but will
it cut _lags_ without dying a dull and horrible death? I keep my PC
Tiger Saw in the truck with me, too, for that purpose.

I thought the HFMFT was more for finesse...and wood.


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Actually I'd really use a cut-off wheel mounted on a air powered die
grinder, but give the recent threads...

Dunno about the HF, but with the metal cutting blade the Fein will go
through nails, lags, or anything else that's not hardened.

But it's slow and you're chewing up an expen$ive blade. I agree--cutoff
wheel in a die grinder or Dremel is really the way to go for that job.