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Best way to join particle board?
kspiff:
I'm putting a Pac-Land back together that's particle board.. I'm just using poplar 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" furniture repair strips for support, gluing them in with Gorilla glue and then screwing them down with coarse thread 2" drywall screws for extra support.
Seems to be working well.. and if your wood is new then it should be a little harder than what I have to work with (have had to back a few screws up a bit after going all the way through :-\).
zorg:
--- Quote from: _Iz- on March 28, 2003, 03:36:29 pm ---
So, using this advice, the best method for joining two pieces would be with "L" brackets or with a corner block or make a 2x4 or 2x2 frame and screw the panels to that.
*IMPORTANT* If you are going to glue the joints make sure you don't glue anything that has to be removeable later! For example, if your cabinet itself will fit thru the door but with the control panel box attached it won't then make sure you just screw the box to the cabinet and don't glue it! You need to be able to remove it later if you want to take it back out of the house.
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don't know if it will help, but I'm planning something like that.
as I'm living in a flat, and plannig to move I need to have the cab easily unmounted..
for that I'm planning to use some shape made of L brackets with fixed pieces to hold BTR screew (i'll post a drawing latter to explain better) on the wood panel screewed
I'll drill a T hole to made the screew head "quite invisible"
this way the Cab could be quite totally unmounted and no wory about the abilty to screew agian on the same hole, the wood will be unaffected . side effect, it will be easy to acces the marque ligths (just 4 screw to remove, and here you go)
Eric
zorg:
--- Quote from: zorg on March 29, 2003, 05:25:00 am ---I'm planning to use some shape made of L brackets with fixed pieces to hold BTR screew (i'll post a drawing latter to explain better) on the wood panel screewed
I'll drill a T hole to made the screew head "quite invisible"
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here is the drawing. Hope is more clear than my previoius text.
only the back part of the cab will be fixed this way, I don't want to have screew head visibles on the side and fornt of the cab.
the front side will be fixed from the interior
Eric
AceTKK:
Thanks for all the tips everyone. I went with the 1x1 corner pieces (screwed from the inside) and it worked like a charm.
-Ace-