How to repair melamine board

That will help cosmetically, of course, but it won't do a whole lot in the way of restoring the support which was prodided by that screw. It's kind of like trying to patch cracking concrete or mortar, where the fix is only as good as what it is sticking to. Once you start chipping layers off of that stuff, the ones below it are prone to ripping away next.

You might want to patch it and then install a new screw about an inch to one side or the other for support.

Thanks, is there anything I can do to restore the strength? I seem to remember something people use for bonding boat parts, some sort of a cloth and liquid agent and is supposed to be stronger than the original material.

you 'could' put a small L bracket under it..

Jeezus a new piece of melamine aint THAT expensive, is it ???

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:12:42 -0700, "PrecisionMachinisT" scribbled this interesting note:

Neither is solid wood. And that you can repair if you need to.

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

It will be difficult because this is not a standard board, but part of a piece of finished furniture that I have taken apart. The board size is not standard and it's about two and a half inches thick and it has hardware embedded in it on both sides because it is a vertical member of a shelving storage system. So the only choice I have is to repair it.