Minor cabinet damage repair

demogo

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How would you guys fix these gashes in the side of a cab I just picked up?

They aren't horrible but they are in pretty visible spots and I'd like them to look better.

I'm not looking for perfection here. I realize the correct way is to probably bondo them, sand, strip off the black vinyl on the whole side and redo it but frankly that's too much work.

I'm just looking for them to look much better than they do now so I'm thinking mask off the undamaged areas near the damage, fill with wood filler, sand smooth, then paint that area black to match the surrounding vinyl as much as possible.

I've attached two shots showing the damage from 2 different angles.

Thoughts? Comments?

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I was hoping to avoid the great stinkyness of bondo.

This cab is currently in my gameroom and was I hoping to use a water based wood filler so I didn't have to move the cab to my garage for this minor work.

Yeah, I'm basically lazy. Don't really want to use bondo inside my gameroom if I can avoid it.

If the wood filler is really an inappropriate choice for this and bondo is the only real answer I can go buy a hand truck so I can move the cab across the house.
 
Bondo would give you a harder surface to work with. Most wood fillers are fairly soft and if this is on the front edge, it may be subject to getting cracked or knocked loose.

Either way, when you sand it, you are going to get dust everywhere, so you are better doing it in the garage anyway.

ken
 
I'm sure I have an extra tube of this somewhere. Most hardware stores also sell other putties that would work.
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i aint seen bondo over here in uk yet,probably need to look more.i use p38 bodyfiller from halfords.supposed to be very similar if not the same as bondo,2 part filler.

if you use crappy polyfiller you will find that what you put there will just fall off leaving a perfect hole there again.

since i first used p38 i have never looked back.easy enough to sand,rely gos nice and solid with enough grip properties so it dont fall out.also it seems to paint over pretty good also.
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I'm sure I have an extra tube of this somewhere. Most hardware stores also sell other putties that would work.
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i was going to use this to fill holes in a wood contorl panel since i could stuff it in there and it rock hard and will drill good
 
The main thing with bondo over wood filler for me is a few of things.

Wood filler is made to expand and contract with temperature and humidity, just like wood. Bondo does not do this.

Bondo also sets up quicker. I can be sanding/shaping bondo within a half an hour or applying and the. Applying a second coat in some cases. This wouldn't be possible with wood filler.

Bondo also cures to a muhc harder substance than wood filler could ever hope to.
 
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