Spur shelving with single line of slots - where to buy?

[Drake]

Hi, I'm trying to locate some of the metal shelving system with steel brackets that slot into vertical steel strips you screw to the wall. Spur and Elfin are two brand names. I can only seem to find the double-slot stuff like this:

I want is the version with only a single line of slots - not double. Is it still made? Who stocks it? Can I order it online anywhere?

TIA,

Drake

[atticus]

IKEA

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[Andy Dingley]

I've never seen this. I've seen it in aluminium, but not in steel. If you over-load the aluminium, then there's also a nasty failure where the top lug on the bracket fails - not hard to do either.

I assume that the difference is because of the need to manufacture the brackets with a wide top, and thus differently. Aluminium can be extruded as a T section but steel would need to be folded. A U, asymmetric L or even a Z section is possible, but not a simple T for a simple central slot.

[Jake]

for business yet, and the nearest Ikea store is more than 100 miles from me, so I'm still looking...

Thanks anyway,

Jake

[Jake]

Yes, I know the alloy stuff, and yes, it is much weaker than the steel stuff. The steel is about 1/8" thick so it's plenty strong.

Drake

[Frank Erskine]

Nearer 1/16" actually, but it's still very good. Spur went out of business a few years ago, but most places (B&Q, Screwfix et al) sell compatible twin slot stuff - I must admit that I haven't seen your single-slot stuff for a while.

I've never had failures with pseudo (or real) Spur "double-slot" bracketry carrying zillions of books, amplifiers, turntables and so on

- even a large CRT gryrivfvba set at one time (on 24" (or thereabouts) brackets)!