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Major cabinet size problem
shmokes:
The problem is I need it to be at least that deep to accomodate the 27" TV I'm planning to use as the monitor. I'd love to just use a WG d9200 instead, which would allow me to make it 6" shallower, but I already own the TV and I don't have $500 to lay down on a new monitor (especially when I already own a 27" TV I could use).
Unfortunately I'm just going to have to assemble it in the room, I think, and disassemble it when I leave :-\ Oh well! Such is life.
I am a little bit worried about laminating. My workspace is across town; I could never build this thing in my apartment. Someone here told me that if you are only laminating one side of a board it needs to be fastened to a frame immediately or the laminate will start warping the board. This someone is a professional cabinet maker and says that he has seen noticable warping within an hour or two. Anyway, I don't want to laminate both sides. Laminate is expensive and I'm already using black melamine so the cab will look nice inside and such. It'd be a huge waste of the extra money I spent for melamine to laminate both sides of it.
Someone=I don't remember
Wienerdog:
shmokes, I would use a different wood.
If you are laminating, I would go with plywood for it's strength. Melamine has a particle board core, so it isn't the best wood to countersink a lag bolt into, and it is heavy.
I think my ideal wood is MDO. I found it at my local Menards today, and I will be using it if I decide to paint my cab. MDO is a plywood with a thin MDF face on each side. It is as light and strong as plywood and has the smooth paintable surface of MDF. However, if you do not have a need to paint one or both surfaces, then it is not _your_ ideal wood.
shmokes:
Hah...too late. Already got all the melamine. Perhaps it would have been prudent to choose a different wood, but I only plan to build this once at least within the next five years. I just want it to be as nice and professional looking as possible. I guess I could have bought a different wood and painted the inside and laminated the outside for a similar, albeit less expensive result. But the thought of my cab being all black and shiny on the inside and all nice and laminated on the outside makes sunshine flow through my heart.
Err....forget that stuff I said about the sunshine please.
I'll probably run an electric sander over the surface to rid it of sheen before I apply a second laminate. As far as strength goes my understanding is that melamine board uses industrial strength particle board which has close to, if not the same strength rating as MDF. And god yes, it was heavy. 95 lbs. per 4'x8' sheet.
Wienerdog:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 12, 2003, 10:16:55 pm ---And god yes, it was heavy. 95 lbs. per 4'x8' sheet.
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LOL, I have to be honest. I have gone to Home Depot at least twice with the intention of buying 3/4 MDF. Both times, I started to pick up a sheet and I thought "you have GOT to be kidding me". I am 6'3", 230lbs, and I walked out because I couldn't imagine having a cab made out of three sheets of this stuff. HA. Then I decided to stain the cab so I was going with cabinet grade Birch plywood. Now that I found the MDO, I may be leaning that direction again.