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While I agree that a product marked as all one material type should ship as that particular material in complete, my experience over the years with one eighth and one quarter thick ply material has been anything but stable in both dimension and quality. Too often suppliers would purchase vinyl coated ply that would not be sanded smooth and the rough grain pattern would transfer through and give the finish side a rough look. High grade back board wasn't always available on a regular basis and added to the consistency problem. Suffice to say, from a consistent finish look viewpoint, for white interior boxes, the hardboard solution is an attractive alternative. When building top grade boxes myself of complete ply construction, I ended up applying vt grade laminate to the ply backer in order to achieve the required consistent look, but this adds a significant cost to the final product. The alternative to this was an epoxy coat hardboard when the specifications allowed. Generally the hardboard was a heavier material, but adding laminate to the ply to control the finish look gave some parity to the overall weight difference. I suspect that the manufacturer you were dealing with had more complaints about their finish look than they have had about not having plywood back boards since changing over to the hardboard. Someone just failed to adjust for the fact that they would get called out for it. If I may, I suggest that you lay your boxes face down, check them for straight and square, and then run a heavy bead of hot melt glue around the edge of the backs. This will help stabilize the boxes and keep any rattle to a minimum.

There is one other solution for creating a concealed cleat system to hang thin material. You could use a plunge router to hollow out the necessary space on the back side of the material and then use a dovetail bit and straight edge to give an undercut on the top edge of the relief. Using a router table and the same bit (or simply a table saw), you can then create a strip of material with the same edge relief to cut your hanging blocks from. I personally do not recommend a full length cleat on thin material, unless your wall is dead flat with zero deviation. Using short cleats over the studs should suffice to hang a light weight project and give you some wiggle room to make any necessary adjustments. Make sure that the material used for the cleats is slightly thinner than the depth of the beveled relief area on the shelf, and once all adjustments are complete apply a couple of small spots of wood glue to the bevel for a semi-permanent fix.

You might be able to use concealed mounting hardware along the lines of these: https://www.thehardwarehut.com/catalog-product.php?p_ref=259675&gshop&gclid=CPvZ75zehMsCFQoNaQodo48BWg Or if the shelf is not going to be carrying a lot of weight you could use a t-slot router bit with a plunge router to cut screw slots directly into the material in several places on the back of the piece.

On the Boxsters, I made more money on interior and mechanical parts than anything else. Body panels were an incredible pain in the tail and I had higher than 50% shipping damage with them on average. It was hit or miss and I stopped shipping large parts because of it. In the long run though, due to various circumstances, along with that accident I was involved in, it just wasn't a viable occupation for me.

@comp56 Yeah, the cars rebuilt in this manner are always tagged with a rebuilt title, and it does lower resale value. After doing this a couple of times, for lack of something better to do because of the housing crash, I determined that it would always be a wash or a loss as far as money goes, but stripping the cars to sell the parts would always generate some income. Just not enough during this economy to attempt to make a business out of it without major investment in land and warehousing. The Boxsters were massive fun to drive though.

Time for the rest of the story: As the dust was settling, the other driver exited his vehicle and staggered/ran off. This was then classed as a hit and run by the first response unit and prompted a fairly large police presence on the scene, including k-9 units. They were able to track down this knucklehead after about thirty minutes or so and ID him with the help of the lady from the mini-van who had been following directly behind me. He, of course, denied having been the driver, but when they did a background check, it turned up an outstanding warrant for his arrest for car theft from the previous year and was promptly handcuffed. As the next few weeks passed, I learned that the car he had been driving was not registered, and also had stolen Texas plates on it. They could not identify who actually owned the vehicle and the VIN did not register as stolen. My insurance agent's comment when informed of all this stated; "This just keeps getting better and better" (sarcasm certainly intended). The last item I heard was that they were putting a case together against him, and that they were really happy to have him in custody for the car theft issue. After that, I never heard from anyone again. The largest problem in all of this was the fact that the accident was classed as an uninsured motorist incident, and that there is a 10k cap on vehicle damages written into law for the insurance companies. The value of my car was set at 18k and the value of the totaled Porsche was estimated at 4k. Fortunately, pain and suffering, plus medical expenses are a separate issue and I received some compensation for that. So that left me with a net loss on value of the car at about 4k. As this was one of those projects that I had been working on, the loss was basically paper, but would have covered my personal labor in the project. I ended up having to strip this one down and sell off as much as I could to make up for the accident. End result: I learned that uninsured motorist coverage in Indiana is shit disguised with a chocolate coating. It is great that you have some compensation, but the core of it stinks.

If you want to buy into an expensive vehicle type, and are mechanically minded, you can always sign up on an insurance auction site and bid on a wrecked unit and then rebuild it. A couple of years back, I was experimenting with making a business out of buying wrecked Boxsters and stripping them to sell the parts. The first one I bought turned out to be in better shape than expected and so I decided to rebuild it. Bought a second unit and used it for parts to fix the first. Sold off the excess parts and ended up with a decent Porsche for less than 10k with about three months of spare time in the project.

Found this posted in one of the closed facebook groups I belong to. For anyone with a military service background, it is one of those must watch items... https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wq0X0bwMprQ?feature=player_embedded

Up until about five years ago I would have said 75%, but the last two moves required a bit of downsizing and most of the major pieces have been sold off. Probably around 60% or so now.

My nephew says it is fine as an entry level reader. It can be a good choice if you are hooked into the amazon prime setup. He has one of the original models that he adapted to an android platform, because he doesn't care for the amazon parts and says it works fine for what it is. He also stated that the newer versions should compare to any of the other entry level models available on the market.

For Logan, one ford truck sweeps. http://fordvehicles.emipowered.net/goodtimespickuplines/

Before my last move I had 980 plus paperbacks in my scifi/fantasy collection. Took up too much space and so down the road they went. Much easier to store in electronic format.

This is why I have been posting these in pub talk and not in any tool section. The kindle contest is available to Canadians, I believe. I have been having trouble finding sweeps available outside the US. If these posts are a problem in any way, I can stop.

Open to the 50 states. http://www.davesmith.com/Contests/2015/GMC-sierra.htm

Customized bike from Allstate. https://www.allstatemotorcyclesweepstakes.com/

If anyone here likes to read fantasy novels, this ones for you. One of the limitations is you must be 21 or older, and you agree to accept email promotions from the various authors involved in the contest. http://jasminewalt.com/giveaways/fantasy-lovers-giveaway/?lucky=1562 Found this on one of the online graphic novel sites that I frequent.

Interesting project video; worth the watch. https://www.facebook.com/204715839871422/videos/223746324635040/ I watched this several times and paused the video to check out things in the background. In particular, I like the low tech gluing platform.

Porter Cable 690 routers were a mainstay in my shop. I still have six or seven of them in my tool cabinets with extra bases set up in jigs or attached to router table inserts. Several three horse models as well, and most of the trimmers are also PC.

I always hated having to install a cabinet over plumbing stubbed out of the floor instead of the back wall. Almost always would have some silly issue with alignment that would require extra time and effort, when punching holes in the base.

There are so many other vehicles I would purchase at 98k. That truck would not even hit the top ten.

Dewalt DC618 is 16ga angled finish nail gun and the nails are readily available for it. The Dewalt DC628 is a 15ga angled nail gun and uses the same nails as Senco. These are two from the old xrp line.

I read somewhere that the Rand 4000 was manufactured by DeVilbiss. Looking at parts diagrams of their portable units, with your description, gives me the impression that your unit uses reed valves, as opposed to stem valves. It is highly probable that the reed plate has failed and needs to be replaced. In any event, from your description of the problem, you will probably need to disassemble the head to troubleshoot the problem. It could be as simple as a bad O ring, or possibly a jammed check-valve, but most likely a reed has cracked in the valve assembly. Good-luck.

Gangsta white walls...

Why not build yourself a downdraft sanding table? Something along the lines of this one; http://www.barbomachinery.com/catablog-items/denray-28-x-48-down-draft-sanding-table/

International tool is also offering the same package.