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(01-21-2019, 12:48 PM)plharrison Wrote: We have an old wooden medicine cabinet I want to mount inside a wall. The door is warped as you can see in this pic. Any ideas on how I could straighten it out?
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Paul
Have you considered disassembling and reassembling? Not sure if that is feasible...
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It likely will be far easier to just build a new one.
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Hmmm, dunno; maybe steam it and put it in a press of some sort....
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What Roly said. Take it apart and lay out the pieces on a flat surface. If any are warped or twisted, they will need replacing. If the problem is in the joints, as he said, you will need to trim them to fit straight. The latter will likely involve plugging the existing screw holes and re-drilling. Otherwise, the screws will probably pull the joint out of alignment again.
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Already some great suggestions. Myself seeing as its screwed together i might try with it apart to just epoxy each joint and clamp it back together on a flat surface while holding it flat
i think that might be easier than trimming the joints and if that fails you still have a good pattern for the replica.
leave the screws out of it at least till the epoxy drys