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  • Re: 16mm sheet material, preferably melamine covered

    From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Mon May 26 14:29:57 2025
    Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
    This is getting silly! All I want is some laminate covered board
    (chipboard, MDF, whatever) for making up drwaer units that require
    16mm thick bottoms and backs. (GTV Axis Pro, but others also want 16mm material).

    With the current increasing wooliness of search engines simply looking
    for "16mm board" produces zillions of hits for every other thickness
    possible but not for 16mm.

    Can anyone suggest a way of actually finding 16mm board? It doesn't
    even have to be melamine covered, 16mm plywood would be OK.

    (I have found 16mm bamboo plywood but the quantity and price was
    ridiculous!)

    Typical, some further searching finally produced exactly what I'm
    after:-

    https://www.diy.com/departments/white-semi-edged-melamine-faced-chipboard-mfc-furniture-board-l-2m-w-600mm-t-16mm/3663602873839_BQ.prd

    It's pretty cheap too! :-)

    Modern search engines are becoming more and more useless.

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    Chris Green
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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Mon May 26 14:38:39 2025
    Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
    This is getting silly! All I want is some laminate covered board
    (chipboard, MDF, whatever) for making up drwaer units that require
    16mm thick bottoms and backs. (GTV Axis Pro, but others also want 16mm material).

    With the current increasing wooliness of search engines simply looking
    for "16mm board" produces zillions of hits for every other thickness
    possible but not for 16mm.

    Can anyone suggest a way of actually finding 16mm board? It doesn't
    even have to be melamine covered, 16mm plywood would be OK.

    Would a sheet of 9mm plus a sheet of 6mm do you? Not sure of the tolerances but it would leave 1mm for glue?

    You can get 9mm melamine faced ply (I think, this website isn't super clear): https://cworkshop.co.uk/sheet-materials/plywood/brcply-smt-w-white-melamine-birch-plywood-plywood-2440-x-1220mm/9mm/

    but you can also get somebody to do the facing for you (people who make
    kitchen units have the presses)

    Theo

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 26 14:15:25 2025
    This is getting silly! All I want is some laminate covered board
    (chipboard, MDF, whatever) for making up drwaer units that require
    16mm thick bottoms and backs. (GTV Axis Pro, but others also want 16mm material).

    With the current increasing wooliness of search engines simply looking
    for "16mm board" produces zillions of hits for every other thickness
    possible but not for 16mm.

    Can anyone suggest a way of actually finding 16mm board? It doesn't
    even have to be melamine covered, 16mm plywood would be OK.

    (I have found 16mm bamboo plywood but the quantity and price was
    ridiculous!)

    --
    Chris Green
    ·

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