installing t-mloding, glue or no glue??

[squirrellydw]

I am going to install some t-molding today, should I glue it in or not??

[meany]

There should be no need for glue.

[PCtech]

I am going to install some t-molding today, should I glue it in or not??

Nope, no glue (as long as you didn't route the slot too big)

Ususally just some pressure, and a rubber mallet is all it takes.

If you don't know already, notching the t-molding will make it easier to get around corners....good luck!

Here are a couple links that might help:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=40140.0

http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com/01/index4.htm

Good luck!

[squirrellydw]

thanks, I didn't think I needed to glue it but just wanted to make sure

[gmunny]

Hi,
I'm planning on making my cabinet out of plywood, mainly to keep the weight down and so I can stain it.  Anyone use T-molding on plywood?  I am a little concerned that the slot will get messed up, I was thinking I would probably need to glue it.  Any tips? 
Thanks,
Gmunny

[motorfish]

Hi,
I'm planning on making my cabinet out of plywood, mainly to keep the weight down and so I can stain it.  Anyone use T-molding on plywood?  I am a little concerned that the slot will get messed up, I was thinking I would probably need to glue it.  Any tips? 
Thanks,
Gmunny

Possibly. Plywood isn't as resiliant as MDF in terms os instaling and reinstaling t-molding. It'll deteriorate faster if you remove the t-molding over and over.

[PCtech]

Hi,
I'm planning on making my cabinet out of plywood, mainly to keep the weight down and so I can stain it.  Anyone use T-molding on plywood?  I am a little concerned that the slot will get messed up, I was thinking I would probably need to glue it.  Any tips? 
Thanks,
Gmunny

Never tried in on plywood, but what I would do is get a small scrap of the plywood, and a small peice of the t-molding and see what happens...that way you get an idea of what your getting into.

Good Luck

[nullb0y]

whyn not just sand round corners instead of using tmolding
and stain that too

[cw]

one note.... on what seems to be lots of cabs I notice that at the end of a t-molding run they put a finish nail in the end to keep it down...

[Xphile]

whyn not just sand round corners instead of using tmolding
and stain that too

stained edge grain on ply looks like crap...to put it mildly in a nutshell..:-)

the diiferent layers of plywood will be different materials, and will take stain very differently..you'll get some plys (layers) that turn black, some that stay almost white/yellow and varying degrees of colour in the middle of black and clear....with a light stain colour some plys will turn damn near neon yellow..  

try a piece of your particular plywood with your stain and see if you like it on the edge...

[crashwg]

Me thinks that 90% of "real" arcade cabs are made from plywoood.  They also don't use glue to put in the T-Molding...

Trust me, you don't need glue or a finish nail as CW said.  The ammount of abuse that your cab will see is nothing in comparison to what cab on the job get which is why he may have seen finish nails in the first place.

[Fozzy The Bear]

Me thinks that 90% of "real" arcade cabs are made from plywoood.  They also don't use glue to put in the T-Molding...

Trust me, you don't need glue or a finish nail as CW said.  The ammount of abuse that your cab will see is nothing in comparison to what cab on the job get which is why he may have seen finish nails in the first place.

I can absolutely confirm that..... No cab has ever arrived in the arcade where I work, with finish nails at the end of the T-Molding, although I have to say the we do put them in sometimes.  What he's seeing is operators doing repairs or preventative maintenance.

You're also quite right that arcade cabs get some pretty serious abuse when in use and on site. We clean them and maintain them as much as possible. In fact ours get cleaned at the start of ever working shift. So twice a day.  But they still deteriorate with use. 

A cab at home will never get the sort of abuse or level of use that they do in an arcade. If he's still worried about it or has cut the slot too wide then we find that Hot Melt Glue is the best solution.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[dpz147]

I used birch veneer strips around the edge for mine because I thought it would look better than t-molding on a stained cabinet.  I'm pretty happy with the results.  Here's a link to my project if you want to see how it looks.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=52730.0

[dpz147]

One more note...the veneer strips can be stained as well. I should have stained them a bit darker (you'll see in the pics that they are a bit lighter than the cab) but in the end decided that a little contrast looked ok.