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Building A Display Cabinet - GUIDE COMPLETED 03/06/18
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 478045" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>[ATTACH=full]41585[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now fit the magnetic door catches and the handles:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41586[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41587[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41588[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And now stand the base unit back upright to check that your hinges will hold the doors! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41589[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>18) The base unit is almost complete, so now turn your attention back to the bottom shelves of the cabinet. Unscrew the shelves once again and paint them and the left-hand side panel of the cabinet in your chosen colour:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41590[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41591[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>19) Once dry, you are now ready to attach the plastic twin-track channelling in which the perspex cabinet front covers will sit and slide. The channelling I use is 16.7 mm wide and obtained from <a href="http://www.unico.uk.com" target="_blank">http://www.unico.uk.com</a>. The channelling comes in 2 different depths of channel, with the shallow channelling being for the bottom and sides of your cabinet, and the deeper channelling being for the top. The idea is that the top of the perspex or glass fronts is lifted into the deeper top channelling groove, and then the bottom of the perspex / glass is dropped down into the shallower bottom channelling groove. If you have measured and built everything correctly, your perspex / glass will be held in place by the top channelling and won't fall out and hit you on the head <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>In practice, whilst you should indeed use the deeper channelling for the top as it gives you a greater margin for error, if your cabinet fronts are perspex, the sheets are very flexible and can simply be flexed / bent in and out of the cabinet as required, rather than lifted in and out using the method described above.</p><p></p><p>The specific channelling I bought can be found here (and no, I don't work for Unico ;-)):</p><p></p><p><a href="https://unico.uk.com/glass-wood-sliding-door-fittings/glass-door-channel/SDF007800203/167mm-wide-twin-track" target="_blank">https://unico.uk.com/glass-wood-sliding-door-fittings/glass-door-channel/SDF007800203/167mm-wide-twin-track</a></p><p></p><p>The channelling comes in 2 metre lengths and has a raised central ridge to reduce the surface area of glass / perspex in contact with it to make sliding the panels easier:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41592[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41593[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>20) You must now cut the channelling to the correct length. The easiest way to do this is to lay the channelling along the cabinet frame edge to which it will be fitted. Since you are doing the bottom shelf first, you must allow for the thickness of the side panels of the frame, otherwise your channelling will be too long. Placing an off-cut of the same thickness of MDF where the side panel will ultimately go will suffice:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41594[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 478045, member: 7379"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="051.jpg"]41585._xfImport[/ATTACH] Now fit the magnetic door catches and the handles: [ATTACH type="full" alt="052.jpg"]41586._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="053.jpg"]41587._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="054.jpg"]41588._xfImport[/ATTACH] And now stand the base unit back upright to check that your hinges will hold the doors! :-) [ATTACH type="full" alt="055.jpg"]41589._xfImport[/ATTACH] 18) The base unit is almost complete, so now turn your attention back to the bottom shelves of the cabinet. Unscrew the shelves once again and paint them and the left-hand side panel of the cabinet in your chosen colour: [ATTACH type="full" alt="056.jpg"]41590._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="057.jpg"]41591._xfImport[/ATTACH] 19) Once dry, you are now ready to attach the plastic twin-track channelling in which the perspex cabinet front covers will sit and slide. The channelling I use is 16.7 mm wide and obtained from [url]http://www.unico.uk.com[/url]. The channelling comes in 2 different depths of channel, with the shallow channelling being for the bottom and sides of your cabinet, and the deeper channelling being for the top. The idea is that the top of the perspex or glass fronts is lifted into the deeper top channelling groove, and then the bottom of the perspex / glass is dropped down into the shallower bottom channelling groove. If you have measured and built everything correctly, your perspex / glass will be held in place by the top channelling and won’t fall out and hit you on the head :-) In practice, whilst you should indeed use the deeper channelling for the top as it gives you a greater margin for error, if your cabinet fronts are perspex, the sheets are very flexible and can simply be flexed / bent in and out of the cabinet as required, rather than lifted in and out using the method described above. The specific channelling I bought can be found here (and no, I don’t work for Unico ;-)): [url]https://unico.uk.com/glass-wood-sliding-door-fittings/glass-door-channel/SDF007800203/167mm-wide-twin-track[/url] The channelling comes in 2 metre lengths and has a raised central ridge to reduce the surface area of glass / perspex in contact with it to make sliding the panels easier: [ATTACH type="full" alt="058.jpg"]41592._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="059.jpg"]41593._xfImport[/ATTACH] 20) You must now cut the channelling to the correct length. The easiest way to do this is to lay the channelling along the cabinet frame edge to which it will be fitted. Since you are doing the bottom shelf first, you must allow for the thickness of the side panels of the frame, otherwise your channelling will be too long. Placing an off-cut of the same thickness of MDF where the side panel will ultimately go will suffice: [ATTACH type="full" alt="060.jpg"]41594._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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