DAM. My IKEA shelf just broke. Piles of books everywhere. Anybody know if ikea

[applegrove]

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sells those little silver pegs as extra? I'm going to have to reconfigure the whole unit.

[R B Garr]

1. Sorry to hear this! I've gotten extra of those pegs in their Customer Service

dept for free. It was more like a furniture pickup area that was also where the return section was. But I think they also gave them to me right at the Customer Service return area. I've been a couple times for them. Just took a number and waited and told them what I needed and they gave me a handful. That was a couple years ago now. I would bet they still do that.

Good luck.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks.

[GreydeeThos]

3. Go to the screw deparment at Lowes

Look in the pull out drawers. There will be a drawer labeled "furniture parts". See if they have thoses pegs made out of steel. Get enough to hang the whole shelf.

[lastlib]

4. Lowe's has a "screw department"?

That sounds, um, well.................

(It's 4:30 in the morning, forgive me, my mind works in weird ways at this hour..........)

[GreydeeThos]

5. Okay, fasteners department

We want it to be anything other than PC is a classy joint like the Lounge.

[rug]

6. It's next to the hose aisle.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Is that near the Cheese Cutters Aisle?

[aikoaiko]

11. Funny, but true story. While walking in the fastener aisle with my 9-yr old son...

...he asked why there were male and female bolts. I realized that this, the hardware store, was where I was going to give my son his first birds and bees talk.

So I took the two bolts and showed him how the two bolts screwed into each other.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60280832418/High-quality-stainless-steel-male-and.html?s=p#module-big-image

He was still confused and asked why it was they were called male and female. So I said in a hushed voice that one bolt was like a boys private part and the other was like a girls private part. And his eyes got really big, he blushed, and asked if he was supposed to know about that.

I have him a hug and said that now was as good a time as any. And we went to get ice cream.

[progressoid]

27. You could really confuse him and show him this video about ducks and, well, ....

[Demoiselle]

33. Thank you.

From now on my trips to "feed the ducks" in the Wissahickon will have new meaning.

[Codeine]

7. Customer service desk can usually sell you those pegs

at a nominal price. A few years back I picked up a handful to replace the ones I lost while moving my Billy cases and they were very accommodating.

[pinboy3niner]

9. I'd look that up on the store map...

...but I'm afraid the store map will look just like one of their assembly diagrams.

[kentauros]

22. I know everyone always complains about those diagrams,

but I guess it takes being a draftsman (like I) to understand them without confusion. Either that, or you have to be European. They don't seem to have any problems with them, either

[applegrove]

25. I'm good at putting things together and following those idea maps.

[kentauros]

29. I've always thought they were a brilliant way of doing instructions.

No words, just show people in pictures and exploded drawings how things go together

As pinboy pointed out, too many people refuse to follow any instructions, and then blame the instructions when it doesn't go together properly.

[pinboy3niner]

26. I never had a problem myself, though I'm not a draftsman

Some peope are good at following directions, and some aren't. How many people pull something out of a package and try to put it together without even reading the instructions, thinking it will just be a snap?

My older brother is a case in point. He stil stubbornly refuses to read directions, after many decades of running into problems that way. I still remember, as a kid, watching him remove, clean and reassemble a carburetor--and having parts left over.

[kentauros]

28. Obviously the carberator didn't need those extra parts,

because he wasn't intending it to work, just for it to be abstract art

[pinboy3niner]

30. Hey, who was I to kibbitz?

He was obviously an expert, being a member of the 'Poor Boys' car club. As attested to by the plaque proudly displayed in the rear window of his non-running car.

[kentauros]

31. Ah, so it was just one part of a larger sculpture!

Now I get it

[underahedgerow]

20. In France Ikea has vending machines near the customer service department for the oft

requested small bits parts. Seriously, just like a snack machine. Cheap too, about 2 bucks for a bag of the specific tiny bits you typically need.

It's kinda cool.

But if you have to get spare parts, you just go to the service desk, don't go wandering around the store.

I LOVE Ikea. I've built and installed most everything of theirs, without one single problem, ever. In fact, with larger orders (I've installed numerous kitchens) they've occasionally sent me extra stuff which I happily exchanged for store credit cards, yay me!

I think their instructions are absolutely logical, clear and extremely efficient.

[kentauros]

32. You can make a living building other people's IKEA stuff.

We've seen how people refuse to read any kind of instructions and if you've built as much as you say, I've seen it used as an example for odd jobs through the service Task Rabbit. Unless you're still in France and are already doing just that as a service?

[NightWatcher]

10. Pick me up some meatballs and cinnamon rolls when you go

[applegrove]

12. They have cinnamon rolls? I'm in trouble now!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. They have WONDERFUL cinnamon rolls.

[pinboy3niner]

13. Needs better rhyming if you want airplay on all the country stations

[applegrove]

14. I bet KD Lang could make it great as it is. She did the same for cigarettes. LOL

[pinboy3niner]

15. Combine with MrScorpio's pain remedy lyrics instead of drowning your IKEA sorrows in Jack

Crushed some mini Heath Bars, sprinkled them on some ice cream...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018883914

Makes a nice upbeat finish for the song.

[applegrove]

16. LOL!

[pinboy3niner]

17. 'Oh, Damn, My Ikea Shelf Just Broke,' our new country song...

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Oh, damn, my Ikea shelf just broke
And there are books literally EVERYWHERE!
Oh, the humanity!

I need some more o' them little pins
But the IkEA store map was drawn by the guy who does their assembly diagrams
And I'm lost in bonkers again

And to top it off, my wife won't leave
but my dog done run away (I loved that dog)
And now I got squeaky shoes to boot!

Jack oblivion was tempting
But I crushed me up some mini Heath Bars, sprinkled them on some ice cream...

And ate the pain away.
Ate the pain away, oh
Ate the pain away

I thought books literally everywhere was a nice touch, if I do say so myself.

[applegrove]

18. Very nice. If KD Lang sings it, I want a % though you did most of the work. LOL!

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[pinboy3niner]

19. We're gonna be RICH!

Though I'm afraid to google IKEA songs, because there probably are some.

[MrScorpio]

21. Bravo, bravo...

[R B Garr]

34. lol, can you start some IKEA haiku? That would be cool!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. IKEA shoppers might get a kick out of this:

Horrorstör is a very funny and creepy novel that takes place in a large IKEA-type store. The illustrations of the products are especially clever. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13129925-horrorst-r