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Good way of attaching side panels without punching holes through them?
tivogre:
You could do what I did:
My side panels are removeable. I countersunk bolt heads into the panel, then filled them with epoxy. After the epoxy cured, I sanded flush, and laminated over the bolt heads.
Perfectly clean look from the outside. Solid mount. Easy to remove if necessary.
Also, USE BONDO as a filler on these types of projects. Excellent strength, waterproof, no expansion / contraction. Full cure in 5 minutes.
There's a ton of detail on the attachment method I used for the removable sides on my web page. It starts around day 43:
http://www.ogredog.com/mame_construction_home.htm#Day%2043
Sensei:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on December 07, 2005, 09:24:52 pm ---Lining up the dowels is a bit tricky, but you can get a dowel jig for about $20. You need to clamp the stuff together pretty tight to get the gorilla glue to really take, so use bar clamps if you have them.
--- End quote ---
I agree that dowels are easier than wood putty and a million hours of sanding (which you can still see through the paint). Rather than a dowel jig what I did was:
- put a drop of glue in the counter sunk hole
- hammered in a dowel
- used a Japanese saw (which is simply a saw you can lay flat and with one or two pulls cleanly slice off the part of the dowel above the surface of the wood). Just needs a bit of sanding and you're good.
I have made two cabinets and I used wood putty on the first and did the dowels on the second. There is no comparison. Dowels and Japanese saw are the way to go for me from now on.
Just my $0.02
Good Luck
babydickonboard:
i really don't mind sanding over my wood filler a million times. each countersunk hole i had to fill 2 or 3 times because of shrinkage. i'm waiting to see how it looks painted.....
Ed_McCarron:
Second the bondo.
It doesn't seem to shrink at all - and you get a nice buzz from the fumes, too.
It also is much tougher to chip, whereas putty always seems to fall out/get beat up when I use it.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 09, 2005, 11:46:51 am ---
whereas putty always seems to fall out/get beat up when I use it.
--- End quote ---
so I said to my buddy "Rectum? Darn near KILLED 'IM!"
You've got to start reading the labels on containers. Or at least get your mind off dongles dangling daily....or something ;)
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