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   Moksha | Jun 23, 2009 01:01am | #1

   LostCreek,

   About four years ago I had a similar problem and mounted the doors on drawer slides from the top. You could put a "Frame" around the 1/4" ply. Take thin strips and just cut out a picture frame and glue it down right on the 1/4 plywood... you can even do it on both sides and that might give you the stiffness to prevent most of the warp.

   Your problem most likely does not have a simple solution.

   Moksha

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   saschafer | Jun 23, 2009 02:11am | #2

   I doubt that there is any kind of 1/4" plywood that you could really rely on in this situation. Note that the doors don't have to be 1/4" thick. They can be thicker (say, 1/2"), with rabbets on the top and bottom to fit into the grooves. The extra thickness of the front (outside) door would be to the outside, while the extra thickness of the back (inside) door would be to the inside.

   Rather than rabbetting the plywood panel itself, I'd attach hardwood runners to the top and bottom of a slightly shorter panel, and put the rabbets in the runner.

   -Steve

    

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   SteveSchoene | Jun 23, 2009 04:52am | #3

   I like Steve Schafer's solution. 

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   lostcreek | Jun 23, 2009 05:31am | #4

   Steve,
   Good idea...thinking outside the box. Why, though, the hardwood strips? Maybe for a cleaner rabbit, or less chance of warping?
   lostcreek

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   saschafer | Jun 23, 2009 05:34am | #5

   Better wear characteristics. The exposed end grain of plywood would tend to get frayed rubbing along the groove in the track, and it would in turn cause the track material to wear faster.

   -Steve