On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 8:01:49 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
i need to organize things and i want to make a shallow cabinet for the hand
tools

i thought that using a cleat would be the simplest wall mount to use

sometimes called a pinch cleat or a french cleat

but they are not earthquake ready and i could just blast a screw through
from the front through the cleat and into the wall but something about
that i just do not like

Why would you have to "blast" the screw into the wall? It only needs to go into the wall cleat to secure it. Besides, you will already have holes in the wall from mounting the cleat, what's one more hole from the securing screw going to matter?

I guess the real question is this: What is the "something" about that method that you "just do not like"?

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If you have room to slide the cabinet in from the side, use a "normal" cleat at the top and an "inverted" cleat at the bottom. Once slid into place, the cabinet won't go anywhere unless the room falls over.