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| Negativecreep0:
I am using 3/4'' mdf and i flushed out about 1/4'' of the wood for the joysticks, now after that i went to flush on top for the t-nuts that left about little less than half inch of wood left for the t-nut.... now when i banged the t-nut into the hole THE MDF BROKE!!!! and i have to do my control panel all over again...........any thoughts guys thanks |
| dema:
If you have to do it over again, see if you can use 5/8" mdf. Then you won't need to route the bottom of the CP. |
| markrvp:
Don't "bang" the T-nuts in. Gently tap them in with a hammer. To pull them in all the way, go ahead bolt the joystick bases from underneath. Tighten the bolts until the T-nuts pull down into the MDF. Then you can take the bases back off to finish the panel. |
| pointdablame:
--- Quote from: markrvp on November 20, 2005, 02:07:33 pm ---Don't "bang" the T-nuts in. Gently tap them in with a hammer. To pull them in all the way, go ahead bolt the joystick bases from underneath. Tighten the bolts until the T-nuts pull down into the MDF. Then you can take the bases back off to finish the panel. --- End quote --- exactly. And be sure to route out a little circle for the Tnut to sit into so that they don't sit above the top of the CP. And if you want to cover up the T-nuts with putty or the like to get a perfectly flat surface, be sure to put the bolt in before you putty so you don't fill in the T-nut hole ;) |
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