anyone use ikea for lp racks?


http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60071358

looks like it could be a nice lp rack, but ikea stuff is notoriously cheaply built and the dimensions listed are not too helpful. but taking the total heights/width and dividing by 5 and taking 1.5" off per opening for the boards I come to roughly 13x13" openings which would be good for lps, and figuring 65lps @ 200g/ea per 13 linear inches i get ~29lbs per shelf, right at the listed max weight capacity. seems too good to be true.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone else uses this for lps, and whether or not the shelves look like a compound bow after a year or so...
wrtickle

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Are the Ikea shelves strong enough to hold multiple boxed sets on the same shelf? I have many opera and other boxed sets and was wondering if the extra weight of these would be an issue if they were on higher shelves.
To update my post in this thread, I bought a 5x5 unit and built an x-brace for the back of it. Now I can load up as many records as will fit in there with no danger of it collapsing. I would highly recommend this for anyone who thinks they might be close to the limit. I also found, by the way, upon weighing them, that the box sets did not weigh significantly more than the equivalent number of single LP's.
You really don't want to see pics of my x-brace, it's actually quite badly done and looks terrible. Had to use some pretty long boards to do it, since the unit is so large. But it is on there and is fulfilling it's function. The x-brace is a very strong formation. Those things can collapse into a parallelogram if they have too much weight in them, so I would advise building some kind of brace, and the x one is pretty easy to do.