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Building A Display Cabinet - GUIDE COMPLETED 03/06/18
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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 478056" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>46) The panes of perspex used in this build are quite large, and due to their size and natural flexibility, as already stated they will bow slightly under their own weight. In the left-hand cabinet leaf, the left and right-hand side vertical plastic channelling helps to counter much of this when the perspex is fitted in its 'closed' position. However, to help pinch the two panes together at the point where they overlap, and hence to also help keep them upright and keep dust out, small neodymium magnets are used (these are incredibly strong for their size and are easily available online).</p><p></p><p>One magnet is glued to the inside of the rear perspex pane (i.e. the pane sitting in the rear groove of the plastic channelling), and then a second magnet (not glued) is simply attached via magnetism onto the exterior of the outer pane (i.e. the one sitting in the front groove of the channelling), thereby pinching the two panes together.</p><p></p><p>To find exactly where to glue the rear magnets, firstly fit the perspex front covers, again leaving the protective film in place. Ensure that the left and right panes are slid fully into their respective vertical channels. Mark the positions where you want your magnets to go by simply drawing a dot on the protective film with a marker pen in the appropriate place(s). This mark will however of course be on the front surface of the outer pane, but since you want to glue the magnet to the back of the rear pane, measure the exact position the mark you've just made, then remove the front pane and, using your measurement, draw the mark again on the front side of the rear pane.</p><p></p><p>There will be two magnetic 'pinch points' on the left-hand leaf, so try to line each of these up with a shelf edge (to avoid having a magnet hovering in front of whatever you end up displaying in the cabinet), and also at the mid-point of where the panes overlap:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43061[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>To glue a magnet onto the perspex, carefully cut and peel back the protective film in a small area on the rear side where you are fixing your magnet (take care not to scratch the perspex!), and use a small drop of very strong glue like Araldite on one side of that magnet. Line it up with the mark you made on the protective film on the other (front) side of the perspex, and then simply add another magnet to the front side on top of the mark you made to hold both magnets in position whilst the glue dries:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43062[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43063[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43064[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And here it is with the panes back in the cabinet:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43065[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>47) Now ensure that the right-hand cabinet's perspex cover is pushed fully over to the left-hand side, so that it touches the right-hand perspex pane in the left-hand cabinet. However, the right-hand cabinet's perspex cover poses a problem of its own. Because it is a single large pane, but does not have any vertical channelling to slide into at its left-hand edge, it too may well bow under its own weight and not look square (or the perspex sheet it was cut from may have a natural bend to it). Counter this by forcing it into a vertical position with further neodymium magnets.</p><p></p><p>In this particular build, the perspex pane in the right-hand cabinet bent inwards in the middle, meaning it was touching the glass shelves behind. I didn't want this, and it also looked poor, so I fixed a stack of magnets to the right-hand perspex pane of the left-hand leaf (again, gluing just one single magnet onto its rear face, but then adding more magnets on both sides of the perspex to build the desired stack). I made sure to position this stack such that when the right-hand cabinet's perspex pane was fully closed, it would sit in front of the stack, forcing it vertical and preventing it bending inwards and touching the shelves behind. I did this by first marking on the protective film whereabouts I wanted the stack to sit:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43066[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Then using the same technique shown above, I glued just one single magnet at the base of the stack (the other five magnets are being held in place by their magnetism <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]43067[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Lastly, to help pinch the right-hand cabinet's perspex pane tight against the stack, I glued one extra magnet to the OUTSIDE of the right-hand pane, and then added a second magnet on top of that one, also on the outside of the pane (there are no magnets on the inside of the perspex pane in the right-hand cabinet). The magnetic attraction of this mini stack of two magnets is sufficient to pull the pane inwards towards the larger magnet stack:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43068[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43069[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43070[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 478056, member: 7379"] 46) The panes of perspex used in this build are quite large, and due to their size and natural flexibility, as already stated they will bow slightly under their own weight. In the left-hand cabinet leaf, the left and right-hand side vertical plastic channelling helps to counter much of this when the perspex is fitted in its ‘closed’ position. However, to help pinch the two panes together at the point where they overlap, and hence to also help keep them upright and keep dust out, small neodymium magnets are used (these are incredibly strong for their size and are easily available online). One magnet is glued to the inside of the rear perspex pane (i.e. the pane sitting in the rear groove of the plastic channelling), and then a second magnet (not glued) is simply attached via magnetism onto the exterior of the outer pane (i.e. the one sitting in the front groove of the channelling), thereby pinching the two panes together. To find exactly where to glue the rear magnets, firstly fit the perspex front covers, again leaving the protective film in place. Ensure that the left and right panes are slid fully into their respective vertical channels. Mark the positions where you want your magnets to go by simply drawing a dot on the protective film with a marker pen in the appropriate place(s). This mark will however of course be on the front surface of the outer pane, but since you want to glue the magnet to the back of the rear pane, measure the exact position the mark you’ve just made, then remove the front pane and, using your measurement, draw the mark again on the front side of the rear pane. There will be two magnetic ‘pinch points’ on the left-hand leaf, so try to line each of these up with a shelf edge (to avoid having a magnet hovering in front of whatever you end up displaying in the cabinet), and also at the mid-point of where the panes overlap: [ATTACH type="full" alt="144.jpg"]43061._xfImport[/ATTACH] To glue a magnet onto the perspex, carefully cut and peel back the protective film in a small area on the rear side where you are fixing your magnet (take care not to scratch the perspex!), and use a small drop of very strong glue like Araldite on one side of that magnet. Line it up with the mark you made on the protective film on the other (front) side of the perspex, and then simply add another magnet to the front side on top of the mark you made to hold both magnets in position whilst the glue dries: [ATTACH type="full" alt="145.jpg"]43062._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="146.jpg"]43063._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="147.jpg"]43064._xfImport[/ATTACH] And here it is with the panes back in the cabinet: [ATTACH type="full" alt="148.jpg"]43065._xfImport[/ATTACH] 47) Now ensure that the right-hand cabinet’s perspex cover is pushed fully over to the left-hand side, so that it touches the right-hand perspex pane in the left-hand cabinet. However, the right-hand cabinet’s perspex cover poses a problem of its own. Because it is a single large pane, but does not have any vertical channelling to slide into at its left-hand edge, it too may well bow under its own weight and not look square (or the perspex sheet it was cut from may have a natural bend to it). Counter this by forcing it into a vertical position with further neodymium magnets. In this particular build, the perspex pane in the right-hand cabinet bent inwards in the middle, meaning it was touching the glass shelves behind. I didn’t want this, and it also looked poor, so I fixed a stack of magnets to the right-hand perspex pane of the left-hand leaf (again, gluing just one single magnet onto its rear face, but then adding more magnets on both sides of the perspex to build the desired stack). I made sure to position this stack such that when the right-hand cabinet’s perspex pane was fully closed, it would sit in front of the stack, forcing it vertical and preventing it bending inwards and touching the shelves behind. I did this by first marking on the protective film whereabouts I wanted the stack to sit: [ATTACH type="full" alt="149.jpg"]43066._xfImport[/ATTACH] Then using the same technique shown above, I glued just one single magnet at the base of the stack (the other five magnets are being held in place by their magnetism :-): [ATTACH type="full" alt="150.jpg"]43067._xfImport[/ATTACH] Lastly, to help pinch the right-hand cabinet’s perspex pane tight against the stack, I glued one extra magnet to the OUTSIDE of the right-hand pane, and then added a second magnet on top of that one, also on the outside of the pane (there are no magnets on the inside of the perspex pane in the right-hand cabinet). The magnetic attraction of this mini stack of two magnets is sufficient to pull the pane inwards towards the larger magnet stack: [ATTACH type="full" alt="151.jpg"]43068._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="152.jpg"]43069._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="153.jpg"]43070._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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