Plywood - talk to us about how you use plywood

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by avanboekel

I'm sure if you took your time in planning and designing to build with wood, it would be fine. But whenever we use it, it ends off being off just enough to where it isn't running at the efficiency that it should. Then you have to re-drill holes, and it becomes a pain. Where as with aluminum extrusion such as 80-20, if you are off by a bit, you loosen the bolts on the sliders, move it to where it needs to be, and you're done. Now,
with the competition not, we waterjet all parts that require that amount of precision. If something is off there, then its most likely a CAD problem, not a machining problem.

Again, I'm not saying that wood is bad, especially in the right application, its quite good. We just don't have the time and precision to use it.

BTW, we don't have access to a router in house. Any machining we do on wood is with a cordless drill and a chop saw.

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to clarify, I wasn't criticizing you. I was just making sure impressionable students who crawl all over chief weren't interpreting information the wrong way.