Glueing Metal to Wood?

[Johan]

I bought these LED strips from IKEA and mounted them "Fast & the Furious"-style under my bed (also IKEA - convenience anybody?) - four strips about a foot off each corner. It looks great and when you need a pee at night you don't have to turn on those blinding flood lights to find your way around.

Problem is, my B&Q Super glue isn't all that. One keeps falling off. So I wanted some ideas on how to best attach the little LED strip clips (metal) to my wooden bed (hanging upside down). I'm not much of a DYI hero so layman's terms please :D Would screwing them in be better perhaps? They did come with screws but they were tiny and I didn't have a small enough phillips screw driver to use them so I went for the 'easy' way.

When it's back on I will post some pics for you to dribble on.

[Al]

If they came with screws I'd guess that is the recommended attachement method. Depending on the size and weight you may be able to get away with drawing pins rather than screws and then when you "upgrade" to screws in the future the pilot holes will already be there :)

[Johan]

That's a good idea for making it easier to get the screws in I guess, those pins. But they wouldn't work permanently because they'd be blocking the strips. I'm such a DIY n00b! If only I was like my dad, he built our/their house pretty much from scratch. Skills!

[Al]

If you haven't done it by next Thursday I'll bring my screw driver set with me, then again do I really want to be seen screwing in your bed :eek:

[Johan]

Hahaha,

I may have to ask Paris instead, alledgedly she's OK at screwing:

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7804/parishiltonscrewingwu7.jpg

Back on topic now... :D

[keith]

well, sure she does "looks" good at screwing :P

[capitalist_junkie]

I would suggest just going with basic epoxy glue, personally. Works much, much better than superglue.

[Scott]

"No more nails" ~ I love that stuff, very handy glue.

[clvezlys]

well, epoxy glue would probably do the trick. Now, i haven't seen your setup, so this could be a useless advice, but have you considered using electric tape?

[Johan]

I don't tend to try things I haven't heard of :o What is electric tape? Is that the double sided tape they use in airplanes? (My dad brought home a roll one day and I took it to school taping everything to the ceiling with the tinyest strip you couldn't see - so much fun!)

[amitpatel_3001]

Hahaha,

I may have to ask Paris instead, alledgedly she's OK at screwing:

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7804/parishiltonscrewingwu7.jpg

Back on topic now... :D

lol hilton screwing :D

[clvezlys]

I don't tend to try things I haven't heard of :o What is electric tape? Is that the double sided tape they use in airplanes? (My dad brought home a roll one day and I took it to school taping everything to the ceiling with the tinyest strip you couldn't see - so much fun!)

Sabotage = FUN.
Sabotage where you don't have to put much effort into it = 2*FUN.
Sabotage where you don't have to put much effort into it and you are doing it in school = CAN IT GET ANY MORE ENJOYABLE THAN THIS?

Oh, and a more commonly used word for electric tape is duct tape.

[Johan]

Aaaah duct tape or gaffa/gaffer tape, the one McGyver always uses :)

I don't think that would be a neat solution actually, not that I look under my bed every day but I'd like to know that it looks good even when no one ever gets to see it.

[clvezlys]

You could always try two sided tape - it would hold and you couldn't see it.

[Alan the Great]

Electric tape is not duct tape. It is narrow, black, plasticky and do a google image search. Thank you, this appears to be yet another symptom of OCD developing. Also, use this opportunity to get a good small screwdriver set; they're very useful. On the off chance that they don't get lost, that is :D.