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Materials other than MDF
Mike A:
no.
Alejo I:
jennifer:
:)
bperkins01:
MDF is crap.. make it out of lasagna noodles.. same result..
If you don't want to use plywood (birch would be the best) - use particle board. Its inexpensive and is still better than MDF.
But seriously - you going to spend plenty of money on a machine.. and encase it on something slightly better that corrugated cardboard?
pro tip - listen to people who have built stuff before.. not people who have never built a think and own zero tools..
Alejo I:
--- Quote from: bperkins01 on August 07, 2020, 10:06:07 am ---MDF is crap.. make it out of lasagna noodles.. same result..
If you don't want to use plywood (birch would be the best) - use particle board. Its inexpensive and is still better than MDF.
But seriously - you going to spend plenty of money on a machine.. and encase it on something slightly better that corrugated cardboard?
pro tip - listen to people who have built stuff before.. not people who have never built a think and own zero tools..
--- End quote ---
I'm lazy as hell when it comes to arcade projects and not exactly a carpenter, but in the last year and half I've designed and built two entire kitchens from MDF and remodelled several ones before that while keeping most of the old structures. I think that counts. The cabinets and drawers get abused by tenants and kids each day. They are fine. And an arcade cabinet is hardly going to have it worse than a kitchen one on a rent apartment unless your friends are real hooligans.
It's all about the quality of the MDF and the surface treatment. I get that people have preferences (don't we all?) but I feel like certain assumptions are way off base when you have firms like Natuzzi using MDF for credenzas that cost more than my first car did.
In any case, opinions and bumholes :dunno
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