Need help with electric access thru desktop
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We are in the process of installing base cabinets in my office.  The counter top is going to be 3/4" ply with 3/4" walnut veneer ply on the top with solid walnut for edging.  My question is what is the best way to provide access the the electric sockets through the top?  Two corners are occupied by corner cabs that do not extend to the wall and that, of course, is where two sockets are.  One of those two is set up so the top of the socket is switched while the bottom is not.  That one is the one I've got a small window A/C unit plugged into.  There is another socket for which I've cut out the back of the cab but I still need a pretty way to get juice to the counter top.

I am struggling with my google-fu and will continue, but I figure the brain trust here has already solved the problem.
Thanks,  Curt
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#8
Typically grommets would be used for this. there are a variety of plastic, metal and wooden ones available or you could make your own.

One source for ideas here.

-DaveR1
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#9
If convenient both Rockler, and WoodCraft stock several of the plastic grommets. If not the net is your shopping mall.


Most of these you can hit go to webpage, and there you are
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GW
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#10
grommets, or you could get fancy and buy a 'popup power strip'* designed to fit in a hole cut in the desktop.

*no idea on what they're actually called.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

Mark

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#11
Don't know if this helps you but there are two of these on the back corners of my desk, and this is an opportunity to try to post a picture on New Age Woodnet.....

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Ag

Well that worked.
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#12
I've always thought those pop-up power centers are cool. You push them down when not in use and they look like a regular grommet. Lee Valley sells them too.
-Marc

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