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.: Centipede restoration
project .: Cabinet restoration My cab had some moisture damage along the front bottom edge. Most of the damage was to the front coindoor panel and along the left side. I initially expected that I was going to have to replace the bottom, but it seems that the particle board sides wicked up the moisture and the plywood bottom was pretty well protected. 1. In these photos, the cab is lying down with the front panel facing up. Here you can see the particle board was severely damaged, in some places the 3/4" board had expanded to over 1.5" thick.
2. The front panel was removed. This was pretty easy, I just carefully knocked it out with a hammer leaving the 3/4" x 3/4" braces attached to the sides.
3. I rolled the cabinet over on the right side and knocked out the bottom panel. Then I used a circular saw to cut off about 4" of the bottom left side.
4. Here is the bottom panel. It was at this point that I decided that the bottom panel was still in very good shape and hadn't delaminated from moisture. If I had to replace this panel, I would have used the original as a template and cut a new one with my router. In my case, I just sanded it down to remove most of the stains (some of the darker ones were too deep and can be seen in the photo).
5. A cut a piece of plywood to fill in the bottom left side that I had cut off previously. I glued and clamped it together, and glued a 1" x 4" over the seam on the inside. Then I used my construction stapler to secure the brace in place. The photo of the inside was taken after I had already started to put the wire harness in the cab.
6. Here is a shot of the new front panel installed and the bottom put back in. The second photo shows the cash box/ARII holder put back in.
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