Looking for the best way to assemble cabinets

[airroots]

Hi,

Bought a used Shopbot 3years ago, mainly to cut melamine in are cabinet, so far it work great especially with the ShopBot Link and ecabinets.

Business is excellent but where always re-questioning are self in order to supply a better product.

Are biggest questions Assembly?

We tried screws, staples, nails, use dado mode in ecab, but it slows down cutting time a lot.

Using staples for now but it’s not perfect.

Open to suggestion.

Thanks Alain

[beacon14]

We've been moving towards RTA fittings (Rafix) for our cabinets as the closet business influences our cabinet procedures more and more.

[bleeth]

We use narrow crown staples and do a screw back up. So a 3 1/2" stretcher will have 2 staples and 1 screw. A standard depth upper will have 3 staples and two screws at the top and bottom. I have also found it is well worth it to use "cutter-head" cabinet screws over standard drywall.

[kevin]

I use Cabinet part pro I have it set for through dado average sheet cut time is 4 to 8 min
As Dave said screws and staples .But its also imporant to glue daddo it not will be weak due to thin material left.
We can do with 2 employes do 2 kitchens a day cut only

[airroots]

Thanks for the feed back, will probably try the screws as a back up.

[airroots]

HI Kevin,

With 4-8min sheet cut time, What speed you run your ShopBot!, and do you do all the drill holes and toe kick on your sheet.

Since I'm running more like 12-15 min a 4x8 sheet, on my standard ShopBot at 1.8 cut speed with a 5mm compression bit.

I'm more with a kitchen cut in 2 days, must says are kitchen average 50-60 doors, are last one had 26 dove tails drawers.

[kevin]

I don't use toe kicks /I use base you get a better yield 30 inches

I tried all kinds of bits was not impressed with cut plus hard to get anything here .I use half inch plain 2 flutes exchange one for every kitchen works out to 12 dollars a kitchen.

The speed difference is I have an alfa It run at 12 maximun
my average kitchenis 30 to 40 doors

But also I make all draws on same file dovetail draws are not a selling point yet here

I have a air drill had a all kinds of problems wth it haven't had the time to get it working properly
Wish I bought second spindle instead
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[bruce_taylor]

I can't talk about production work because I tend to mainly due higher quality custom work, But I tag everything together with a pin nailer then screw anything that is not visible glue and dado every joint clamp if necessary to get a nice tight joint. I have considered high production but my small shop and two man operation doesn't seem to fit.