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Building A Display Cabinet - GUIDE COMPLETED 03/06/18
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 478050" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>30) As you did with the two bottom cabinet panels, use a pair of straight mending plates to join the two top panels together and ensure they remain flush with one another. Fix these plates to the outside (i.e. upper) surface of the two top panels. If your cabinet is small enough, this can be completely done when the panels are flat on the ground or work table, and then simply lifted bodily into position whilst joined. However, if your cabinet is very large like this one, lifting the two joined panels together is quite awkward, so it may be easier to lift each one into position separately, and then join them with the mending plates in situ.</p><p></p><p>Once again mark, bradawl and hand-drill the screw holes needed for the mending plates, and attach the mending plates to one of the panels:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43005[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43006[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Reattach the left-hand side panel and place the top panels back into position and screw them onto their supporting angle brackets. Also screw the left-hand side panel to the top left panel using the pair of 3" angle brackets you added.</p><p></p><p>Finally, join the two top panels together using the two mending plates. If like this cabinet, the top panel is very close to your ceiling, limiting your working space, use a reversible right-angle ratchet screw driver to screw the screws into the top of the mending plates:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43007[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43008[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>31) Now that the top panels are fixed into position, check that everything fits together as it should, and that everything that should be level remains level once screwed in place.</p><p></p><p>IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS ARE A CONSTANT DISTANCE FROM ONE ANOTHER AT THE FRONT OF THE CABINET!!!</p><p></p><p>IF THEY ARE NOT, THE PERSPEX FRONT PIECES WILL NOT FIT PROPERLY AND EVEN RISK FALLING OUT!</p><p></p><p>If necessary, add spacers above the top angle brackets to boost the height of the top panels, and again if necessary, adjust the height of the wedges / spacers beneath the bottom of the front of the cabinet, to maintain a constant and level separation between the top and bottom of the cabinet front:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43009[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43010[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43011[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43012[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 478050, member: 7379"] 30) As you did with the two bottom cabinet panels, use a pair of straight mending plates to join the two top panels together and ensure they remain flush with one another. Fix these plates to the outside (i.e. upper) surface of the two top panels. If your cabinet is small enough, this can be completely done when the panels are flat on the ground or work table, and then simply lifted bodily into position whilst joined. However, if your cabinet is very large like this one, lifting the two joined panels together is quite awkward, so it may be easier to lift each one into position separately, and then join them with the mending plates in situ. Once again mark, bradawl and hand-drill the screw holes needed for the mending plates, and attach the mending plates to one of the panels: [ATTACH type="full" alt="090.jpg"]43005._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="091.jpg"]43006._xfImport[/ATTACH] Reattach the left-hand side panel and place the top panels back into position and screw them onto their supporting angle brackets. Also screw the left-hand side panel to the top left panel using the pair of 3” angle brackets you added. Finally, join the two top panels together using the two mending plates. If like this cabinet, the top panel is very close to your ceiling, limiting your working space, use a reversible right-angle ratchet screw driver to screw the screws into the top of the mending plates: [ATTACH type="full" alt="092.jpg"]43007._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="093.jpg"]43008._xfImport[/ATTACH] 31) Now that the top panels are fixed into position, check that everything fits together as it should, and that everything that should be level remains level once screwed in place. IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS ARE A CONSTANT DISTANCE FROM ONE ANOTHER AT THE FRONT OF THE CABINET!!! IF THEY ARE NOT, THE PERSPEX FRONT PIECES WILL NOT FIT PROPERLY AND EVEN RISK FALLING OUT! If necessary, add spacers above the top angle brackets to boost the height of the top panels, and again if necessary, adjust the height of the wedges / spacers beneath the bottom of the front of the cabinet, to maintain a constant and level separation between the top and bottom of the cabinet front: [ATTACH type="full" alt="094.jpg"]43009._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="095.jpg"]43010._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="096.jpg"]43011._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="097.jpg"]43012._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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