Drawer issue

[Doug Miller]

In article , RicodJour wrote: [...]

The initials are in the correct order. They stand for "melamine particle core board".

[RicodJour]

Agreed. So Danny Proul(x) should have written "melamine particle core board (MPCB)", the 'coated' being implied/inferred.

R(x) Wreck Minority Whip - Acronym Standards Committee (WMW-ASC)

[Josepi]

hahahaha. Very rich coming from y'all USAnians cuoming from such an illiterate history.

Besides the "side" of a cabinet is called

"the end"

ROFLMFAO

[Stuart]

I wonder how all this is answering the OPs question?

[Father Haskell]

If the drawers only hold light loads, such as clothing, they don't need slides.

[Robatoy]

It's a gable. Now the jury is back in and it has been determined that those who call those panels 'sides', or 'bulkheads' are not 'really' professional cabinet makers.

to wit:

[RicodJour]

Okay...so you can't tell me what improvement there is in using a different word for the same thing. Okay, I'm going to start calling cars, grables. That should simplify my conversations.

Dave Lers

2720 Ontario St. Bellingham, WA 98226

WA is barely in the US, and it's way too close to Canada. There's even _Ontario_ in his address. He's a hoser, for sure.

Furniture Technician course at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario"

I'm not arguing that you may have a _colloquialism_ on your side of the border. It's clear you do. I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense. Not from the original (and still champion) meaning of the word gable, and not by any measure of improving language clarity. In fact, from that same second link, I found this: "The construction system is based on columns of 5mm diameter holes drilled 32mm apart in the cabinet sides (gables)" Even he of the terminal X Proul, has to translate and he gives sides first billing!

You're making my case for me. As far as bulkheads, let's ask Lew what a bulkhead is - deal? ;)

R

[Larry Jaques]

No real proof!

(Hey, if it's not in Joyce's _Cabinetmaking and Millwork_, it's not a real word.)

-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

[phorbin]

Just variant spellings of the same word. Carcass equals carcase (OED). There are no further distictions to be made.

It derives from the word charcois.

...and it all adds up to a frame of bones or wood on which something is hung or was hung.

[RicodJour]

Agreed, that's why I said I'm willing to slide - but where's the fun in that? ;)

Perhaps. Or Italian/Latin - you can never tell with those romantic languages.

A frame is different than a carcase/carcass. Frame

1. a rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building or engineering works, machinery, furniture, etc.

Carcass/carcase refers to the body of the cabinet, as separate from the doors and drawers. In days gone by it may have been a frame and panel box, or a box from solid sawn boards. A frame is a skeleton.

R

[Robatoy]

I hang most of my pictures in skeletons?....depending what skeleton of mind I'm in?

[RicodJour]

Exactly. South of _our_ border (that's North of their border to you) we hang skeletons in closets - until TMZ gets a hold of 'em. Then we sell the video and make a ton of money.

R