home depot MDF

[loondizie52 1]

does anyone know what grade home depot or lowes MDF is. ive got a few ganahl lumbers and reel lumber by me and they use grade a. ive used the A before and i liked it better and it seemed to be better quality than HD while still bein only $25 a sheet

[Tirefryr 1,742]

No idea. My HD only sells one grade. It has the 5 gold stripes on one end and it's the same thing that Lowes and Menards sells. I don't see what any difference could be aside from density, which of course you want more of for an enclosure.

[loondizie52 1]

hmm weird my HD and lowes both have the ends painted green.

i know grade A uses better glues and it just sounds and feels different. it feels more solid

as far as longevity or strength, that is my reason for asking

[loveeemachine 1]

Not sure about home depots grade. . .

But i am sure than you should NOT let them cut the wood.

I gave them an exact print out of the dimensions i needed. Everything listed and diagramed.

Somehow they managed to screw that up and half the pieces that were right, didn't fit properly with each other and the box leaked.

[///M5 2,833]

That's because they only 'guarantee' 1/4" accuracy. I like my boxes to be better than 1/16ths.

If you have them rip only the major dimension though you can usually compensate.

[loondizie52 1]

ya always cut yourself!

[slim2fattycake 85]

I told them to cut outside of the line they mark on the wood so I can get a more accurate cut but no they go and cut in the middle of the line on some and right next to the line other times. I wish I had their cutting machine.

[mikey5472 16]

I keep mine within 1/16". Which in an assembly line of any product is the same.

[shizzzon 461]

I told them to cut outside of the line they mark on the wood so I can get a more accurate cut but no they go and cut in the middle of the line on some and right next to the line other times. I wish I had their cutting machine.

I've got a portable version of the one they use, I have practically every tool u can think of for projects like this and some odd projects...

We even have a plasma cutter... doubt i'll ever need to use it though.

[ppiflat10s 3]

my HD sells the 3/4" with 5 green lines also. dont think it has to do with the grade, its just an easy way for them to ring it up. they have a bunch of colors in the system and different line quantities on different products.

I never knew there was grades. I had heard someone mention LDF and HDF before (low and high) but I thought they were just full of it.

[[email protected] 1]

i work at home depot and im pretty sure we dont have a grade on mdf, the lines are for easy ring up for the cashiers, and maybe not for sure but for whatever region ur in it might be a different color

[KU40 173]

I didn't know there were grades within MDF either. But I know there are low and high, as ppiflat said.

[rushnrun 14]

my lowes sell a cardboard like mdf and my menards carries a better grade of MDF (don't know what it is-redish color)

the grade at lowes has a yellow color to the wood---it's worthless... you can peel it apart...

[socialstealth 0]

I went to homedepot today to get my mdf board and they had a huge sign saying 'only APPROXIMATE cuts, no grantee of accuracy'

My dad works at home depot (in the tool rental section), so he warned me that they would probably do a terrible job cutting it.

I added an extra inch to the dimensions I told them to cut so I could cut it when I got home.

I just had them cut the 4x8 board into 36'' // 32'' // remainder.

Just so I could fit it in my car....

Is a sphere the perfect shape for an enclosure? I have a machine that can make spheres // oval shaped spheres so I've been thinking I could make an enclosure for my midbass woofers in my custom door pods and make it a sphere for super sq

do tweeters need an enclosure?

[Lucky 76 5]

A sphere enclosure would be badass. How does it make it? Is it out of like a solid wood and then in hollows it out? I remember when I went to home depot and bought their entire inventory of 3/4" mdf. They were stunned.

[loondizie52 1]

i live in so california and we have ganahl lumber and reel lumber that are the quality wood places. what is similar to those near you guys?

[Lucky 76 5]

we do not really have any big time places just small time stores.