IKEA Hack-a-Lack

The IKEA Hack-a-Lack is a screwing-device for those who need to assemble a large number of IKEA Lack coffeetables. It saves time, energy and painful wrists. It's very easy to make and the best part is that it is actually made from a Lack table itself. It works like a very big screwdriver but instead of screws it fits tablelegs. For the exhibition Platform21=Hacking IKEA we had to assemble some 1000 LACK's so you may imagine we needed all the help we can invent. The principle of the whole thing is best explained through the instruction of IKEA itself.

Step 1 Ingredients

The first thing you need is a Lack tableleg. If you have to assemble a lot of tables just get one extra. It never hurts to have spareparts, and you can actually assemble 4 Hack-a-Lacks from one extra table bringing the costs down to about 2,50 each. The other ingredients are a saw, strong glue (I used polyurethan), a wrench and something to rough up the surface of the tableleg. The IKEA Hack-a-Lack is actually a drillpart so a drill is needed to use it.

Comments

[sewi]

for wot is it good for...

[nilloc]

Apparently, screwing on more Lack legs.

[hasson]

Nice. We had to assemble a bunch of IKEA furniture at my office one time. This would have come in handy.

[forced_to_make_an_account]

While this is clever, I would recommend cutting a 2x4 to the size of the table leg instead.

[TBR]

 If one doesn't happen to have a spare 2x4, buying an extra LACK end table is nearly the same price as a piece of lumber these days.  Plus you've got the extra parts in case of any mishaps. 

[forced_to_make_an_account]

Hm, well, a 2x4 around here still costs under $2.25...

[spark master]

heck a short 2X2 is cheaper then that in fact cruise a remodeled house / building site get it free. I do not mean steal it, they got tons of scraps all going into dumpsters.

[arne hendriks]

To be honest I only used the leg because it is more fun as an ible. Although this way it is totally accurate.

[arne hendriks]

We did a tablescape using the hack-a-lack. It still is the ultimate tool to put these things together. I wonder if a 2 by 4 is the exact size of a lack table leg so just getting an extra table is probably better and it gives you 4 hack a lacks and the table top is available to serve as the bottom part of a lack rack.

[arne hendriks]

Hmmm.

[cg15]

OK, I know this will probaly sound really stupid, but WTF is IKEA???????

[arne hendriks]

a store www.ikea.com

[mweston]

I like the first picture - "Lack and Decker" :-P

[arne hendriks]

We have the tables and will soon start to put them together. I'll upload a film of it.

[alex-sharetskiy]

Reminds me of this..

[Mock26]

It is!

[jamiesoncostello]

You know, I think this is an actual page out of the employee handbook.

[alex-sharetskiy]

i doubt that

[jamiesoncostello]

Whyyyyyy you gotta be like that?

[arne hendriks]

In any case it should be.

[jamiesoncostello]

There we go. A sense of humor! yayyyyyyy

[arne hendriks]

I'm serious ; )

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[sabarblatoe]

Word!

[Steamdnt]

Letter!

[nitrox027]

dot

[Derin]

atom

[alex-sharetskiy]

quark

[FreshPineSent]

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[tkjtkj]

virtual particle

ref: "Warped Passages" by Lisa Randall, Phd

[alex-sharetskiy]

quark is the smallest possible fragment of a proton (that has been named), and as we all know, protons, neutrons and electrons, make atoms

[FreshPineSent]

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[alex-sharetskiy]

oh

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[jamiesoncostello]

I'm really only interested in neutrinos. Anyone hear about that sphere of "heavy water" they've got miles underground to try and sense neutrinos passing through the earth?

[alex-sharetskiy]

yes, i've heard of them but i don't know what they are

[jamiesoncostello]

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. It's like a mile underground and they have a huge bubble of sensors filled with Deuterium aka "heavy water" to sense the occasion collision of a neutrino with the nucleus of the Deuterium. Neutrinos have a neglibible mass and no charge, they travel at near the speed of light and pass through matter so easily that they fly straight through the earth undisturbed everyday.

[alex-sharetskiy]

What happens to deuterium when it is hit with Neutrinos?

[jamiesoncostello]

It causes a "charged current reaction" when the neutrino collides with a proton, basically just a slight flash of light. The whole sphere of deuterium is kept in total darkness and surrounded in photomultiplier tubes. They make the labs underground because the earth filters out a lot of excess background radiation from the surface, otherwise I think the ball would light up like the fourth of july haha.

[alex-sharetskiy]

I was wondering what happens to the atom of deuterium,does it get destroyed? or what?