30mm is just under an inch...thats a chunky panel!
though keep the design fairly simple, head down the local hardware
store (bigger the better?).
you don't need CAD drawings, just a rough sketch with the dimensions
noted.
choose the wood you like and get them to cut it to your specs, should
only cost an extra few dollars. The store staff should be able to sort
you for fasteners, etc too.
Much cheaper than Ikea and hopefully you will get a cabinet you at
least like.
i did this for my 'boxes' -
http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/box/picture006.jpg
they even cut little grooves for the panels to slot into.
from memory it was around $40 for everything.
> Ok, but surely you mean 30mm thick, not 300? We'll probably go withits just an idea for the cabinet - work out the dimensions you need,
> the thicker aluminium (if we can find it cheap enough, B&Q only had
> 0.5mm aluminium).
> We've decided to buy a flat pack box from Ikea and cut the "solid
> birch" up a little to give us the correct dimensions. One modified box
> should hold 16U in width with two shelves of 5U.
> This is gonna be more of a love hate relationship. Love the modules,
> hate the Ikea cabinet.
>
though keep the design fairly simple, head down the local hardware
store (bigger the better?).
you don't need CAD drawings, just a rough sketch with the dimensions
noted.
choose the wood you like and get them to cut it to your specs, should
only cost an extra few dollars. The store staff should be able to sort
you for fasteners, etc too.
Much cheaper than Ikea and hopefully you will get a cabinet you at
least like.
i did this for my 'boxes' -
http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/box/picture006.jpg
they even cut little grooves for the panels to slot into.
from memory it was around $40 for everything.
>aluminum,
> --- In cgs_synth@yahoogroups.com, Richard Brewster <pugix@> wrote:
> >
> > MOTM style panels are made from a flat, rectangular piece of
> > usually 300 mm thick. Modcan B panels are made out of a much thinnerover
> > sheet of aluminum, with added rigidity from having the edges bent
> > to form a channel. Here is a picture:side
> >
> > http://www.modcan.com/bphoto/rear%20view.jpg
> >
> > Because of this difference, Modcan B modules may not fit well in the
> > regular MOTM-style rack. If MOTM and Modcan B modules were to sit
> > by side, you would need to add spacers behind the Modcan panels toheard how
> bring
> > them flush with the MOTM. If someone has done it, I've never
> > it worked out.
> >
> > Richard Brewster
> > http://www.pugix.com
> >
> > Future Image wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yes, it must be the Modcan B panels. When you say "physically
> > > different" do you just mean how they look?
> > >
> > >
> >
>