Hackers Help: Old BILLY glass doors on new BILLY

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We recently bought a few BILLYs. As the BILLY glass doors were disproportionately expensive, I decided to try my luck in online classifieds. Today, I picked up a pair of nice glass doors. They look more or less like the MORLINDEN model.

IKEA items used: Post-2014 model BILLY, pre-2014 full glass doors

IKEA BILLY MORLIDEN
BILLY + MORLIDEN | IKEA.com

However, it quickly turned out that the holes on the new BILLY are way too small for the screws that came with the door. Dang! I searched online, and found a Hackers’ Help topic discussion on the opposite issue: New model doors on an older version BILLY.

Hackers Help: Old full glass doors on new BILLY

Hackers Help: Old full glass doors on new BILLY

In my case, I am wondering if I can simply buy the new model screws (113287 for Oxberg doors?). Will they work? Will they (and the smaller holes on the Billy) be able to support the old door’s weight? Has anybody tried this before? Thanks for any input.

~ Ben

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  1. Hi,
    I am just underway to mount old Olsbo doors on a new billy bookshelf.
    The doors I found second hand in the original packaging so they contain all the fixtures and original screws. I got both the shelves and the doors second hand separately, but it was a good deal so I figured why not try it.
    For mapping out the holes I simply put the shelf on its side and lined up the fixtures then used a FIXA drill template to mark out the holes.
    The upper two fixtures have holes right inbetween the existing holes on the newer Billy bookshelf. However the lowest fixtures is lower than the pre-drilled holes.
    For the holes it’s a 5 mm drill bit (pre-drilling with a 3 or 4 mm is recommended in my opinion). The hole itself is approximately 1 cm deep. Mark it with tape on your drillbit.
    The full glass doors unlike these doors have movable fixtures as far as I can tell, that is why just replacing the screws (and adjust the fixtures) will be sufficient.

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  2. I ended up getting screws for the new version doors (113287) at the IKEA service counter, and it worked. 🙂 Thanks for your input.

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    1. Ben, are you in Toronto by any chance? 🙂
      And if so, could you part with the old style screws shown here in the picture? (1/2 x 12)
      I know your post is old, but strange things happened.

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  3. Hi,

    I had exactly the same problem on my lower BILLY back in… 2014. I only understand now the issue. I did not wonder too much at the time and drilled out the existing holes so that it fits. I was a bit scared but the BILLY is still in a good shape 🙂

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  4. That looks basically the exact same as the Morliden doors I just put on my Billys, you need more pictures of the offending screws and holes

    Otherwise, I would say, if you can get the screws to fit, use it… or drill the holes out more, the screws with my Morliden doors damage the particle board when installing anyway.

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