Dominoes for melamine cabinet construction

[fshanno]

We construct all of our cabinets with 8mm Dia. dowels made of the same material as the dominos.  We use a GannoMat Index 130 dowel machine to drill and insert each dowel and the cabinets are solid.  Using domino's to construct casework should work just fine.  We use Titebond Doweling Glue, and it works great.

GannoMat 130?  Well, as I've always said, there's no substitute for capital.

I'm guessing 5 - 8mm dowels per joint for base cabinets?  When you assemble do you put any glue on the surfaces of the butt joint or just in the dowel holes?  Do you staple the backs and/or apply glue to the back of the back?  I've always wondered about applying hot glue to the back of the back after it's in the dado.