How to raise the glass shelf in IKEA Detolf glass cabinet MyFigureCollection.net

Here's an older photo of how I had it.

So here is the tutorial.

Firstly, you'll need to decide if you want to cut acrylic or have it cut for you. That's the only hard bit about this exercise.

You'll need the following items:
6mm clear acrylic/polycarbonate/perspex/etc (if you're doing the cutting yourself)
Hollow PVC pipe with inner diameter of 6mm and outer diameter of 8-10mm. Outer diameter is not as important as inner diameter. I got mine from hobby shop.

Next cut the acrylic sheet to this exact specification.

I had mine cut by a shop a long time ago, since I did not have the proper tool to cut such exact dimensions at the time. This is what it looks like once cut.

Peel back the backing to reveal the clear acrylic under.

Then decide how high you want to raise the shelf. Cut 4 piece of PVC pipe to the height. ie if you wish to raise the shelf by 4cm, cut 4 pieces of PVC pipe 4cm long.

Next you cut a groove into one side of the PVC pipe and do a V shape on one end. The reason for the V shape will be explain later.

Spray the cut PVC pipe silver to match the case. I use Tamiya Silver Leaf for my spray.

A proper spray should have it look like this :

It is barely noticable once in place.

For this tutorial, I've left the pieces unpainted so you can see the pipe clearer.

Take the cut pipe, go to your cabinet and push the V shape into the vertical support. Don't worry the pipe is flexible and won't snap. If it snap, you've probably got wrong pipe. Go get some different ones.

Shouldn't require too much force for it to cleanly snap into place. Once it's inplace you should have something like this.

Next rotate the cut away from the front of the cabinet so it won't be visible.

Snap all 4 in place. Then place the cut acrylic over them. If acrylic cut to exact dimension, it will fit snugly over the top and not move.

Then just place shelf back over the top of the acrylic pieces and you're done. Here's one I prepared earlier. :D

As for how strong this solution is, I do not have the answer to that. I've been using it for a few years and it's still fine. Probably a good idea not to put too much stuff on it though. Alternatively, you can also use this method to add more shelves. You just need another acrylic sheet or glass sheet cut to the same size as the shelves.

Hope that's clear and easily understandable. Thank you for making it this far lol. :D

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