Book-case fail
When I moved into this flat I realised I was missing around half of the screws for my second- or third-hand Billy book-case, but recklessly I put it up and started using it anyway.
NB: DO NOT DO THIS.
Last night, as I was shelving a book, every shelf in the book-case collapsed, although thankfully the bottom ones were too tightly packed with books to get very far. The middle shelf had many of my sculptures on it, so quite a few of these were broken, some of them irreparably. C'est la vie.
Anyway, the point of this post is not so much to moan as to ask if anyone happens to have any Ikea Billy screws kicking around, that they could possibly spare? I think this is fixable with three or four more screws, but in the meantime I'm scared that the stuff on the remaining shelves, or possibly the stuff piled on top of the book-case, could also collapse! Crucially, the middle shelf is supposed to hold the whole thing together, and has abruptly abdicated this responsibility, so the outer panels are now able to bulge outward slightly, so that all the other shelves don't fit right any more.
Failing local help, I'll have to head to Ikea on Monday - which I should have done months ago I guess, it just always seemed so silly travelling 45 minutes each way to pick up half a dozen screws! Especially when I know Ikea will tempt me with pretty furniture and household goods that I can't afford and don't actually need.
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