On Mar 31, 6:34 am, Morris Dovey wrote:
wrote:
The table is a stress-skin design with the 3/4 ply on top, about 1-1/2
high box made from 3/4 ply, and the bottom is 3/8 ply. It's about
30"x20", was a fair bit of work, and fits perfectly.

It seems like the only thing that's going to hold up is going to be
stainless steel. I highly doubt I'm going to get anything to stick to
that phenolic. So I'm thinking I need to screw 1/4 ply over it, then
I can laminate to that. Can I laminate steel to wood? Contact
cement?

I've glued aluminum to wood with TB2 without any problems - but that
wasn't subject to much in the way of shearing forces. I can't think of
any reason you couldn't glue clean stainless.

You might consider taking a brake to your s/s and bending a 90-degree by
either 3/4" or 1-1/2" hook on the upstream end of your s/s surface, and
screwing that to the end of your table as insurance against creep.

The corners of the table are rounded so I don't get impaled on them,
so that makes it a little harder.

I don't want to try to screw around with cauls on this and don't have
a vacuum clamp, so I'm thinking the contact cement is the safest
bet. I guess the bent edge would make lining it up easier.


-Kevin