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i fold dibond trys in-house how do you do yours?
Hi Gang and a happy new year to you all.
We make our own trays, router the sheets, cut the corners out then fold.
Recently I’ve started riveting a piece of ali angle in the corners for strength and a neater corner.The question I have is, do you finish the routed slot that you fold along or do you just fold it and let the aluminium angle brackets fixed to the wall take the weight?
I’ve seen on another site that someone doing the demo plastic welds the folded groove after folding it but all I’ve ever done is fold and fit.
I had a look on dibond/reynobond websites and they seem to just fold for use in building cladding applications.
Just curious??
Cheers
Joe -
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Hi Joe
I just fold and glue the corners, not had any problems so far
Rich 😀 😀 -
Cheers for the reply Rich.
Do you use a piece of angle to reinforce the corners as well or literally just fold the edges, tape ’em temporarily together and run some glue down the join?
What kind of glue you using mate?Cheers
Joe -
I use a corner brace from screwfix, just a cheap bracket and the glue is an automotive glue, if you need contact details let me know.
I did see the demo re plastic weld but thought it was not ness, as for pop rivets they work but I dont like the look of them
thanks rich 😀 😀 -
when we machine them, we put 45degree angle in them and then fold them up, no extra bits added or anything like and put the angles on the sides and not bottom, you can put the angles on the top in some cases.
We screw to wooden frames, very easy to do, hardly any labour time to be honest.
Never visible standing infront of a shop and the line is hardly noticeable.
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