I am building kitchen cabinets similiar to sven hanson’s in fhb 25th anniversary issue however I want to use mcp instead of birch plywood with McFeelly’s conformat screws and tite bond melamine glue. Do you think this is a workable substitute.The customer likes the price and the inside finish of the mcp boxes.
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What is mcp? melamine?
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Melamine-coated particleboard. Cabs are made all the time using this material with the dowel and confirmat-screw method of assembly.
No glue is used at the joint, typically, other than for the dowels.
Gene
As you said, melamine is used all the time for cabinets but we do glue with "roo-glue" sort of a rubbery white glue.
With the comfirmats and dowels its probably not necessary but it cant hurt.
Doug
With tornados in the great plains, and both hurricanes and tornados in Texas, you want all the precautions you can have, against your cabs coming apart at the seams.
If I was doing cab work there, I would be using glue, too! ;-)