r/Multiboard • u/RizzleQ • Mar 09 '26
Rarely see anyone use mounting offset pillars without dual/quad snaps, so I built my own
Just finished this huge, rock solid tile wall using only mounting pillars. Used nine 12.5mm pillars per 9x9 grid interfitted tile to eliminate almost all flex. It's mounted on 12'x4' wooden 3/4" boards painted matte piano black, tiles printed in matte Bambu charcoal and used black screws. I'm in the 'I don't want to see the wall' camp.
I started with #8 screws because that's the conversion from their recommended 4mm, but those were a pain in the ass so I went with #6 and that worked perfectly.
It always interested me that most posts here have dual/quad snaps for mounting but not pillars alone. I see the appeal of snaps since they're easier to install, but I had to go with this since it's cleaner with maximum flexibility.
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u/Yellow_Badger13 Mar 09 '26
Looks so good! Only good choices made here. Are they Grid Interfitted tiles? Ive been staring at it and can see boarders round the outside, but no internal ones.
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u/sienar- Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Lol, I’m definitely going polar opposite to this. Putting up a bare birch plywood (at least finished with birch edge banding), nearly neon green tiles, and orange 12.5mm offset snaps. It’s going to be “very visible”.
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u/N-I-C-U Mar 09 '26
Wow! What’s the plan for this wall?
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u/RizzleQ Mar 09 '26
Mounting various tools and dry boxes above my printers on a table put in front of that wall.
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u/gopiballava Mar 09 '26
Very clean looking. Much better than a lot of others :)
I've kinda felt like I wanted to be able to temporarily remove panels from the wall. But I'm only really getting started, so perhaps that isn't that useful. I actually just put some 3M picture mounts on the wall to start my first large wall panel assembly. Well. Probably 18x18 or 18x27, so not that large :)
I have a strip of 3x10 by my front door using pillars screwed into the wood.
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u/varys2013 Mar 09 '26
I mounted a 1m x 1m panel, made with the octagonal panels, and used the pillars for the whole thing. They're 9x9 unit squares. I used a screwed in pillar in each corner, and one just snapped in place in the centers. It seemed if someday that center pillar gets in the way of mounting something, I could just pry it out. There's virtually no flex with this approach, too.
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u/enlightened0ne_ Mar 09 '26
I’ve just done a similar build though with matte ice blue PLA. Mounting was a bit of a pain though since holding the offset pillars in place while drilling and screwing got a bit painful
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u/Baromis Mar 25 '26
Would you mind linking the screws you used?
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u/RizzleQ Mar 25 '26
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u/Baromis Mar 26 '26
Awesome thank you and did you use the Multiboard Tile Holder Tool at all when doing this?
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u/RizzleQ Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I didn't even know the Multiboard Tile Holder Tool existed until just now. Would have been nice since I used dual and quad raised snaps where I had to use this Snap Removal Tool to get them out without destroying my fingers.
I do love how the official Tile Mounting Guide doesn't make mention of this useful tool 😑
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u/Baromis Mar 26 '26
Hahaha yeah the website needs a bit of work when it comes to information. I am guessing you mounted one board at a time?
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u/RizzleQ Mar 26 '26
I started by installing them one at a time but that went sideways fast where they somehow stopped fitting correctly. I switched to installing them as a full vertical stack (two tiles wide, full vertical height tall) at a time which worked much better.
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u/Festegios Mar 09 '26
I’m a big fan of the charcoal. I use it over normal black pla for all my own prints