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Default cheap bookshelf; 4 LOOSE plastic supports per shelf; glue?

David Combs wrote:
The plastic "fit in hole" shelf-supports come out too easily, with the
result that if someone bumps it,the shelf falls out, along with
everything on it.

Each support works by pushing (inserting) its 1/3-inch-long cylinder
part into the predrilled hole; four such holes, each with one of these
plastic inserts, support the four corners of a shelf.


One way to keep a support from slipping out of its hole would
be to glue the cylinder part into the hole.

Disadvantage: you can never get it out again, should you
want to change the spacing between the shelves.

Question: is there some kind of a WEAK glue that will hold up to a
point, but then will break its bond, allowing you to remove the
plastic support?




If the supports are the kind that have a metal or plastic "L" on the pin
then your shelves are too short. They should be long enough so that the
support pins *cannot* come out.

If they are just cylindical pins you can make the hole smaller - think "flat
toothpick" - or the pin larger. You could make it larger by putting on a
dab of cyanoacrylate (instant glue) and letting it dry before inserting.
When you can't smell it, it is dry.


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