Star Trek Ded Upright base

Zinfer

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Well I finally got it all sanded down. Ready for some bondo work now. I also tore into the base to find that, it was really strange. They have a ply deck at the bottom of the cabinet, but then they used 2 - 3/4"x23"x22" pressboards, glued and stapled them together and fastened them to the deck with about 13 2" screws and a ton of staples. Then they used 3/4" pressboard strips about 1.5" on all 4 edges with another ton of staples.
I don't understand why they would lay a foundation of pressboard rather than ply. I guess sacrificial lamb policy but it did protect the ply so I guess it did it's job.
I was considering replacing the 2 3/4" sheets with 3/4" ply. But all out of ply. I think ply is running around $20+ a sheet now. So I'll have to take the truck and pickup a sheet. Alot of work went into the base and alot will in rebuilding it. Not to mention the hole that was drilled exactly in a position to release the inner boardset and transformer assembly.
I would have said the base was built like a tank had they not used pressboard. It had been nice if I could have used it as a template to cut the new pieces, but as it was fastened, the only way to get it off was a claw hammer, crowbar, screwdriver, chisel and orbital sander.
This is a real chore replacing the base of a Star Trek dedicated upright cabinet.
 
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