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Last post Author Topic: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?  (Read 233019 times)

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #275 on: July 28, 2018, 02:29 AM »
Great job :Thmbsup:

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #276 on: July 28, 2018, 08:13 AM »
Speaking of leg position.. Today with my empty cabinet, in order to air it out more, I opened all the drawers fully and the doors...

You can guess what almost happened -- I just caught it in  time as it was about to tip over onto me (!)  :tellme:

I'm not sure having the legs fully forward would have prevented the problem, but it certainly would have helped.  So I may move the legs forward.  Or just remember to load the cabinet up more and not pull out all the drawers at once.


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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #277 on: July 28, 2018, 12:02 PM »
Speaking of leg position.. Today with my empty cabinet, in order to air it out more, I opened all the drawers fully and the doors...

You can guess what almost happened -- I just caught it in  time as it was about to tip over onto me (!)  :tellme:

I'm not sure having the legs fully forward would have prevented the problem, but it certainly would have helped.  So I may move the legs forward.  Or just remember to load the cabinet up more and not pull out all the drawers at once.



Do you have CCTV?  I need videos of you having a panic attack when it happened...for....reasons :')

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #278 on: July 29, 2018, 07:54 PM »
Speaking of leg position.. Today with my empty cabinet, in order to air it out more, I opened all the drawers fully and the doors...
You can guess what almost happened -- I just caught it in  time as it was about to tip over onto me (!) 
I wondered about that! From the photo it looked as though it could be unstable - the oblong box looked to have too narrow a base to be stable. When I looked at the photo, I initially (mistakenly) thought that you must have had the back of the cabinet screwed to the wall, then I read that the front legs had been recessed and wondered how that was working out. Generally speaking, for stability, narrow cabinets need to have the feet extend outwards, to widen the base of the footprint in the direction of potential fall. Of course, then, people may trip over the extended feet...
Probably simplest to screw the back of the thing into the timber wall studs behind the plaster.
As a standard safety precaution we usually do that anyway with anything in the house which has a narrow footprint (e.g., bookcases), so's they don't fall over too easily in an earth tremor (fairly common in NZ) and squash someone's foot or maim a passing toddler in the process.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #279 on: July 30, 2018, 10:04 AM »
Truthfully there are virtually no dressers that will not tip over and crush you if you open all of their drawers full of stuff.
You can imagine people with young kids have to worry about such things.
There are special gadgets you can get to hold your furniture to the wall in such cases, and I have a big long office cabinet I bought that has a special mechanism that prevents you from opening both the upper and lower drawers at the same time, just to reduce risk of it tipping over.

Having said that, now that I see that the feet look nice, I will probably move the feet as closer to the front and outside the next chance I get, as I think they look nice, and would make the cabinet somewhat more stable.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #280 on: March 05, 2019, 03:40 PM »
Decided to DIY remodel my kitchen myself.. New floor already tiled (not fun!!), old counter and sink just removed.. never done kitchen plumbing before... it will be interesting..

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #281 on: March 05, 2019, 06:58 PM »
Plumbing and Electricity are two areas that I personally won't touch.  Good luck!

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #282 on: March 06, 2019, 01:39 PM »
Decided to DIY remodel my kitchen myself..
Good Lord! If that's the way your kitchen looks, no wonder you want to remodel.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #283 on: March 07, 2019, 04:46 PM »

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #284 on: March 07, 2019, 11:18 PM »
Plumbing and Electricity are two areas that I personally won't touch.  Good luck!

rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

even electricians use that rule...

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #285 on: March 08, 2019, 12:04 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #286 on: March 08, 2019, 12:20 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #287 on: March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!


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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #288 on: March 08, 2019, 08:39 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #289 on: March 08, 2019, 09:49 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #290 on: March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #291 on: March 08, 2019, 04:04 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #292 on: March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #293 on: March 09, 2019, 08:54 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #294 on: March 09, 2019, 09:25 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...


AC your problem.  ;D

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #295 on: March 10, 2019, 04:39 AM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...


AC your problem.  ;D

Un-phased by all of this...

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #296 on: March 10, 2019, 12:45 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...


AC your problem.  ;D

Un-phased by all of this...

Trust you to pylon!

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #297 on: March 10, 2019, 06:03 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...


AC your problem.  ;D

Un-phased by all of this...

Trust you to pylon!
-cranioscopical (March 10, 2019, 12:45 PM)

pretty sure you guys have ground about as much as you can out of this

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #298 on: March 10, 2019, 07:09 PM »
rule of thumb, no one should ever touch electricity...

Shocking revelation, that.

That lightning wit on display, eh?

These kinds of remarks are a bit of a jolt!
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:21 AM)

Ohm my word, I knew you all wouldn't be able to resist.

That comment really Hertz.

And so it should! After all, we are discussing the crown joules of mouser's demesne.

-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 02:46 PM)

I think that there is a potential difference that you re-fuse to see that I can't relay between our alternating current conversations.

We're poles apart and, to be direct, at the risk of seeming a growler, that kind of thinking comes close to analog ic. You really should keep an ion it.
-cranioscopical (March 08, 2019, 08:07 PM)

come on guys, try to remember this is a DC forum...


AC your problem.  ;D

Un-phased by all of this...

Trust you to pylon!
-cranioscopical (March 10, 2019, 12:45 PM)

pretty sure you guys have ground about as much as you can out of this

No one would fault mouser if he set an impedance on the frequency of off-topic conversations on this circuit and placed a demand on us to cut it short.

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Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Reply #299 on: March 10, 2019, 11:57 PM »
Oops, forgot to quote....