Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: Can this be fixed, corner cut?  (Read 2992 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

GSXRMovistar

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 436
  • Last login:April 16, 2025, 06:01:17 pm
  • Gez, this is gonna be expensive!
    • forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,148135.0.html
    • CoffeeCade
Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« on: July 03, 2015, 06:46:53 pm »
I have a sheet of 18mm MDF which has a number of cuts and corners in it, and most annoying when completing the last corner I over-cut the curve as per below:-



Can this be saved?

Slippyblade

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3167
  • Last login:June 05, 2024, 10:30:57 am
  • And to the death god we say, "Not today!"
Re: Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 07:08:42 pm »
Rebuild the corner with wood putty or Bondo and then re-route.

MamedInCanada

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 38
  • Last login:February 02, 2016, 06:23:09 am
  • Still Learning...
Re: Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2015, 09:28:11 am »
I would redo it, bondo = $15 in Canada and a 2' x 4 18mm roughly the same price, maybe cheaper. Any pressure on that piece it will break off unless you can support it from behind.

TimArcades

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 46
  • Last login:September 22, 2016, 10:12:11 pm
Re: Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2015, 11:27:39 pm »
I would redo it, bondo = $15 in Canada and a 2' x 4 18mm roughly the same price, maybe cheaper. Any pressure on that piece it will break off unless you can support it from behind.

Agreed, best thing to do is make a new panel !
- Cars and Cabinets

WakiMiko

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 317
  • Last login:January 04, 2019, 03:17:46 pm
Re: Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2015, 06:25:32 am »
Redo it, use the correct corner of the old sheet as a template for both new corners.

copyimitation

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 45
  • Last login:November 06, 2019, 12:03:56 pm
  • Looking for Ring of Destrucion II
Re: Can this be fixed, corner cut?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2015, 04:49:24 pm »
This can EASILY be fixed with a little bondo and a cardboard template/mold. I use some cardboard from old soda/beer boxes because it bends easily and will hold shape well with tape. But make a mold of your corner that isn't broken and tape that with masking tape to the broken corner. Fill it in with car bondo and sand that baby til she's smooth. Here is a link to my restoration where i fixed corners way worse than that using this exact method.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146085.0.html