Wooden dowels for wardrobe interiors?

[Fordy81]

I'm planning on building my wardrobe interior with panels of 18mm MFC.

However, ideally I'd like to avoid any screw holes etc. Will wooden dowels be sufficient enough, or would I need to use cam dowels too?

And if wooden dowels are ok, would I need to use 10mm? Would 4mm either side of the hole be enough to not break the MFC, or should I use 8mm dowels? Would they hold?

Thanks very much

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I'm planning on building my wardrobe interior with panels of 18mm MFC.

However, ideally I'd like to avoid any screw holes etc. Will wooden dowels be sufficient enough, or would I need to use cam dowels too?

Wooden dowels are more than adequate AND they are actually stronger than cam and dowel fittings providing you drill on something like 64mm centres

would I need to use 10mm? Would 4mm either side of the hole be enough to not break the MFC, or should I use 8mm dowels?

Use 8mm. 6mm are too week whilst 10mm will be more of a risk if you have any amount of rough handling getting stuff into position. 8mm is commonly used in manufacturing industry with 18mm MFC and 18mm MDF and is the best choice IMHO and is what I normally use for 18mm MDF

 

[big-all]

8x30mm dowels should be a little more than 1p -1.3p each
200 for around £2.50

 

[Fordy81]

I'm planning on building my wardrobe interior with panels of 18mm MFC.

However, ideally I'd like to avoid any screw holes etc. Will wooden dowels be sufficient enough, or would I need to use cam dowels too?

Wooden dowels are more than adequate AND they are actually stronger than cam and dowel fittings providing you drill on something like 64mm centres

would I need to use 10mm? Would 4mm either side of the hole be enough to not break the MFC, or should I use 8mm dowels?

Use 8mm. 6mm are too week whilst 10mm will be more of a risk if you have any amount of rough handling getting stuff into position. 8mm is commonly used in manufacturing industry with 18mm MFC and 18mm MDF and is the best choice IMHO and is what I normally use for 18mm MDF

Thanks Job

Can you elaborate what you mean drilling on 64mm centres?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Can you elaborate what you mean drilling on 64mm centres?

Kitchen and bedroom furniture is made-up (commercially) on what we refer to as "System 32", i.e. many of the holes are drilled at 32mm centres or multiples thereof. So "64mm centres" means that your holes are spaced 64mm apart (or double 32mm). Whilst you can use 32mm centres it is time consuming and really isn't necessary for bedroom furniture. 64mm centres will be strong enough. Of coures doing your own holes means that you can put the holes wherever you want, but I'm used to using 64mm which works well

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