The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: GSXRMovistar on July 03, 2015, 06:46:53 pm
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I have a sheet of 18mm MDF which has a number of cuts and corners in it, and most annoying when completing the last corner I over-cut the curve as per below:-
(http://www.bakersplace.co.uk/Misc/Arcade/Corner.jpg)
Can this be saved?
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Rebuild the corner with wood putty or Bondo and then re-route.
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I would redo it, bondo = $15 in Canada and a 2' x 4 18mm roughly the same price, maybe cheaper. Any pressure on that piece it will break off unless you can support it from behind.
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I would redo it, bondo = $15 in Canada and a 2' x 4 18mm roughly the same price, maybe cheaper. Any pressure on that piece it will break off unless you can support it from behind.
Agreed, best thing to do is make a new panel !
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Redo it, use the correct corner of the old sheet as a template for both new corners.
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This can EASILY be fixed with a little bondo and a cardboard template/mold. I use some cardboard from old soda/beer boxes because it bends easily and will hold shape well with tape. But make a mold of your corner that isn't broken and tape that with masking tape to the broken corner. Fill it in with car bondo and sand that baby til she's smooth. Here is a link to my restoration where i fixed corners way worse than that using this exact method.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146085.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146085.0.html)