| ▲ | gregschlom 2 days ago |
| It’s a great project overall but MDF is a very poor choice for the base. It will get destroyed as soon as it gets wet. At minimum they should have used exterior grade plywood, and painted it |
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| ▲ | f1shy 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I‘m pretty sure it‘s from a region in the wotld were weather is very presictable, typically good, and people go out woth kids only in nice days, because there are so many. |
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| ▲ | cess11 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Looks like rain in one of the videos and it'll suffer wear from vibrations as well. It's a nice, cheap material for prototyping on, and then you can base the cut of a piece of metal or plastic on it for a more permanent solution. |
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| ▲ | fifticon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| OSB wood? |
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| ▲ | IshKebab 2 days ago | parent [-] | | OSB is not very nice either. Plywood is definitely the choice here. I think MDF will easily last until his kids don't fit in it though. I don't think he's going to use it in the rain. | | |
| ▲ | ty6853 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Advantech OSB will outlast conventional plywood by a mile in the rain. I exposed it, flat (the worst way possible) as subfloor, to rains for 1+ year while building my house with only maybe 1mm of fiber degrading on the surface a few places. Many modern OSBs use hydrophobic glues impermeable to water. | | |
| ▲ | IshKebab a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe but it's basically made of splinters. Not something you want in a thing you have to touch! | |
| ▲ | datavirtue a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's what I was thinking. Plywood is a horrible choice. |
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| ▲ | woleium a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Marine ply would be my choice | | |
| ▲ | BizarroLand a day ago | parent [-] | | If it were going to be exposed to the elements, I would pick a pine and waterseal it or a marine ply and waterseal it. It would fail eventually anyway, but either of those two options, depending on price, would be good and cheap enough to last. |
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