Working with 50mm Eurolight

[penetratar]

This is a cabinet I recently made for a client to fit an alcove in a recently built extension. The concept went through quite a few transformations before arriving at the final design. Carcasses made with beech ply wrapped in 50mm Eurolight board with MFC drawer fronts and doors. All joinery was done with the Domino which meant that 2 of the 50 mm Eurolight boards had softwood strips glued into one end. Drawers were made of solid Ash .. again jointed with the Domino.
All edge banding on the carcasses and Eurolight was 2mm ABS edging using Conturo. For the doors, drawers and shelves I used .4mm pre-glued edging tape. The Conturo made light work of all of this though I dearly wish Festool supplied a dark brown glue tablet. When working with dark material and especially as this also had a grain to it, it can leave a faint glue line which was difficult to remove.

 

[semenza]

    The Eurolight is interesting stuff. How thick are the particle board outer layers?

Seth

 

[neeleman]

Didn't you have any trouble drilling and screwing the cup-hinges to the Eurolight?
Because of the thin outer layers?

 

[penetratar]

    The Eurolight is interesting stuff. How thick are the particle board outer layers?

Seth

Hi Seth
It was an interesting journey using the Eurolight .. I couldn't locate locally in the colour the customer wanted so had to call Egger to find out which distributors they had recently supplied. One was Leeds, the other Scotland! .. and neither would deliver just one panel! (which are 3m x 2.6m) .. so an 8 hour round trip just to collect [crying]. I also had to tape every cut .. and found that with a 4mm deep pass followed by a full depth cut gave me a clean edge (it does chip quite easily) .. and the TS55 with track just cleared it.

The outer layers are 8mm ..

Cheers

 

[penetratar]

Didn't you have any trouble drilling and screwing the cup-hinges to the Eurolight?
Because of the thin outer layers?

Hi neeleman
I didn't have to as I used 18mm Birch carcasses which were wrapped by the Eurolight. The Eurolight was fixed to the Carcasses with screws.

Cheers

 

[joesan]

Hi Pablo, Can you remember roughly how much the board cost was? I'm trying to price a project but it's hard to get figures for the Eurolight board.

 

[neeleman]

Prices in Holland for plates with dimensions 2800x2070 mm are excl. MwSt./VAT/BTW:
38 mm white €20,80/m²
50 mm white €22,15/m²
38 mm Spanplatten €14,80/m²
50 mm Spanplatten €17,15/m²

 

[penetratar]

Hi Pablo, Can you remember roughly how much the board cost was? I'm trying to price a project but it's hard to get figures for the Eurolight board.

Hi Joesan

Apologies for the late response. Neeleman's prices look pretty close to those in the UK. They will vary but I paid £135.22 inc VAT for a 2800 x 2070 sheet from a company in Leeds called Lawcris.

Cheers