molding - not "t" style

[muttonchop]

alright, so i started my mame cab way back before i really knew what i was doing....and i made the case completey, but never really finished it.

i want to get the molding, but do to screw placement, resources, and the fact that alot of the wood on my cab is actually wood filler due to having to do half the cuts with a jigsaw.... i want to try to get some non-"t" style molding.  i dumped too much money into this, and i dont want to buy a router or redo all the woodwork.  anyone have a link to some quality molding?  id like to get chrome and black..but i think ill have to stickl to jsut black...  whatever i can get.

thanks in advance
-MC

[AlanS17]

I've seen black melamine edging at Home Depot. It's used when cutting melamine and you want to replace the edge.

[muttonchop]

ooh! very nice. now to find a way to make it chrome and make it not chip...

[AlanS17]

It's not a cheap solution, but Home Depot also sells flat aluminum railing. With a low enough thickness, it would be easy enough to bend to the contours of your cabinet. You could glue the majority of it into place after you've shaped it and screw it down at the ends.

[muttonchop]

ill just go with black... i would probably mess up something and the chrome with make everything stand out...


heh, but thanks alot man.  the lowes guys didnt know much, but ill try the local home depot.  My mame cab will be done in like a week, cant wait.

[AlanS17]

Good luck with it!

[wintermute]

You can buy adhesive aluminum tape.  Not sure if this would shine enough for you but it would have a metal look.

[BobA]

Depending on the look  you want you can get chromed plastic moldings for the side of you car that are adheasive and stick fairly well.  Try an auto type parts place.

BobA

[RayB]

THis might be a crazy suggestion, so please people, chime in here,,, what about buying t-molding and cutting the insert part off and then glueing what you're left with?

(might end up real nasty looking)

[jcrouse]

THis might be a crazy suggestion, so please people, chime in here,,, what about buying t-molding and cutting the insert part off and then glueing what you're left with?

(might end up real nasty looking)

I don't believe this would be possible due to the radius on the inside.

John

[AlanS17]

Yeah, t-molding is bent until it's installed. The process of installing it flattens it out. You would need a flat surface to hold the glue. Plus t-molding gets very bumpy if it's not installed on a perfectly flat surface. Trying to glue it to something would cause bumps.

Also, I've seen aluminum tape used for sealing duct work, and it'll definitely work for a while. My only concern there is that it'll dent and tear fairly easily. It's basically like thick, adhesive backed aluminum foil. Realistically, even the aluminum railing I mentioned would be difficult to work with. Aluminum is soft and prone to scratches and dents at any thickness.

I think the auto body chrome plastic modling sounds like a great idea. You mean like the stuff used for door bumpers, BobA? I don't know if they make it 3/4" thick, but that should almost definitely work if they do.

[muttonchop]

auto body chrome sounds pricey =( i may just stick with black.  i Just wanted the chrome for the control panel, and thats where it will get roughed up the most, so w/e.

[darthbane2k]

alright, so i started my mame cab way back before i really knew what i was doing....and i made the case completey, but never really finished it.

i want to get the molding, but do to screw placement, resources, and the fact that alot of the wood on my cab is actually wood filler due to having to do half the cuts with a jigsaw.... i want to try to get some non-"t" style molding.

[muttonchop]

i think ill do it <3

checked lowes...they  had NO molding of any sort. ill try home depot i guess... anyone know a website that sells it?

[Avery]

I don't know where you are, but rather than buy metal strip at Home Despot, look in your phone book under metal (fabricator, supplier, something like that).  Here in St. Louis there are at least two places that will sell you 10-20' lengths of various stock (in your case I think some kind of thin aluminum flat would work perfectly) for a small fraction of what you'd pay and a big box hardware store.

[AlanS17]

i think ill do it <3

checked lowes...they

[muttonchop]

thanks for all the help guys =O

[quarterback]

i think ill do it <3

checked lowes...they

[muttonchop]

i went to 2 lowes, a home depot, and a micheals, and i asked like...a ton of employees there.  NONE had anything.   Georiga sucks.

[quarterback]

i went to 2 lowes, a home depot, and a micheals, and i asked like...a ton of employees there.

[muttonchop]

The stuff in my Lowes is in an aisle that's just before you get to the raw wood aisles

Found it!   Its funny, no one knew where it was, so i went to the dowels area, they were messing with the layout of the store, and it was all in a big card board box where the dowels used to be O_O

this stuff doesnt look anywhere as good as t-mold, and its kinda a pain to get on, but it does the job, and it doesnt look half bad.  I also bought a roll of the facing, and that stuff is REALLY nice, if it wasnt so pricey, id do the whole cab in it.

[quarterback]

The stuff in my Lowes is in an aisle that's just before you get to the raw wood aisles. It's in the same aisle as some wooden dowels

Found it!

[Raven..]

I have used the white birch iron-on trim for my Ms Pac/Galaga/Frogger in a former Galaxian cab.  I stripped the cab down to the beutiful butter-colored plywood and couldn't stand to put plastic T-molding on it.  This stuff looks really nice!

I also used the white melamine trim on my Popeye to SMB conversion.  It looks good, but trimming the width is a pain. 

[darthbane2k]

I have used the white birch iron-on trim for my Ms Pac/Galaga/Frogger in a former Galaxian cab.

[Raven..]

I have used the white birch iron-on trim for my Ms Pac/Galaga/Frogger in a former Galaxian cab.

[muttonchop]

to square off the edges i got this special malamine edge trimmer =)
worked great. 

pics will come when its completely 100% done.  I cut so many corners on this project that im surprised its standing at all, none the less looking fairly nice =)