Make Your Own Ikea SKADIS Hooks

I bought some Ikea SKADIS boards for the tools in the IMDIB makerspace. The boards look nice and are not so expensive. I also added some SKADIS hooks. At the check-out I was shocked by the price of the hooks. Thinking about how to lasercut or 3D-print these hooks myself, I came up with a much easier way to make them from scrap pieces of installation wire.

The original Ikea hooks seem stronger, but my copper wire hooks are more than strong enough.

Materials:

• Electrical domestic installation wire (2,5 mm2 solid core copper)
• Nails
• Thick piece of plank
• 1 M6 bolt

Tools:

• Drill press
• Drill in the size of the nails and bolt.

Ikea:

• SKADIS board
• SKADIS hook (example)

• Put the SKADIS hook on the piece of wood.
• Trace the hook with an Ikea pencil. (or an other pencil)

• Drill the holes in the size of the nails in strategic places to bend the wire over.
• Drill a 6 mm hole to put the bolt in to bend the top curve over.
• Push the nails and the bolt in the holes.

For a small SKADIS hook:

• Cut off 14 cm of wire.
• Put the wire in between the two nails at the begin of the top hook.
• Bend over the bolt.
• Through the nails for the second hook.
• Around the nail and back through the nails again.
• Down around the nails to make the bottom hook.

I used a dowel (or the back of a pencil) to push the wire where I want it to go.

• Take (some) nails out of the board.
• Remove the hook from the board.
• Cut the beginning (and end) of the wire to length.
• Push it flat on a table.

• Fit the hook in the SKADIS board.
• Adjust if necessary.
• Put in the board and hang your stuff on it.

Now it is time to design your own hooks, for different tools or just types of hooks that Ikea doesn't sell.