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30th March 2015, 02:33 PM #16SENIOR MEMBER
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I can see no real advantage to knock-down furniture unless the piece would otherwise not fit into a room.
There are always issues with rigidity and these furniture pieces always have a cheap feel to them.
I make furniture and deal in secondhand and go out of my way to avoid those kinds of pices (Ikea in particular) as they always have problems.The camlocks seem to get brittle after time and never seem to acheive a really tight joint.
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30th March 2015, 08:22 PM #17Taking a break
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+1 for the cam-style fittings for knock-down. As mentioned above you need to be very accurate with marking and drilling all the holes, but they work a treat. The cams do have a limited number of cycles though and they WILL fail with repeated assembly.
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30th March 2015, 10:08 PM #18Senior Member
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Thanks for the clues about the housing joint. I didn't know what to call it. I plan to use the joint sooner or later. That's what I bought the router for.
Would you recommend it on 16mm Mdf? I'm thinking the stuff is so innately gutless you are better off leaving it intact as much as possible.
I know you said earlier you (I) could have a 10mm joint but I don't think you meant it literally. Or perhaps you do mean it literally but only with good gluing. So's the two pieces of wood become as one. Is that it?
I can't have gluing. Maybe in the future some time.
It's just our particular situation. We've moved so many times and plan to move again and we do most of it ourselves, taking stuff out and loading into a little trailer, take it away, come back for more....
And the stuff I make is so big and heavy, relative to the trailer and tiny doors and passages (we don't live in a palace, felt sorry for the queen, let her have the palace) that we pretty soon realised our stuff was better if we could take it apart. Much better.
But that doesn't mean it's going through dozens of rebuilds. No. Half a dozen, maybe, is all.
Then there's the moving within the house, too - that can be a real problem sometimes, can't it?
That's all its about.
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