Ah, brilliant, you can help me. I've been looking at one of those exact Ikea desks as a possible replacement for my current desk/workbench. Thing is that, short of hiring a van, I've no way to get it home other than ordering it from Ikea for delivery. So, for too long now, I've been meaning to pop out to Ikea just to check one out - mostly to make sure that it's stable enough and not wobbly with all the rigidity relying on those sideways H shaped legs, particularly with the sort of uneven load that a stack of test gear and a monitor might impose on it. Thing is every time I think "Go to Ikea to check that desk out?" I think of the hell of trudging around Ikea with the usual idiots on the loose in there and convince myself it can wait.
So, in your humble opinion, is it stable, is it reasonably rigid? Mine would be free standing with no adjacent walls for support and it will have a heavy monitor cantilevered on one end of it.
I can recommend these:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07KHSTF5D/Search on Amazon for "55 inch desk" and you'll find oodles of hits. Look for the ones with the second pic in the description; specifically those plastic feet. Also look for string "AC3-140" in the model name.
Pros: Welded/gusseted steel frame, easy assembly (2 bolts each leg) very solid feel. Decent, reasonably heavy laminate top.
Cons: Steel frame makes it hard to clamp things like a desklamp, monitor swingarm, etc to; combined thickness of top & frame is 48mm/1.9 inches. Plastic adjuster feet are useless; screw them off the square plastic bushing & throw them away.
There is another similar model:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07RSQQ5PX/It has metal threaded adjuster feet that make the frame seem much better, but the top surface is that horrible vinyl/paper that scratches through to the MDF if you look at it sharply. If you're planning to cover the entire surface with a sheet of Masonite as I used to do, not a problem, and the adjuster feet are nice.
Otherwise I recommend the first one as the hard laminate is pretty durable; I've whacked my stamped-steel chassis keyboard against the top of mine a few times pretty hard and no permanent marks.
I just took the plastic adjusters feet off and let it lay on the square plastic bushings in the leg tubes.
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