Anyone know where I can find the weight of sheets of ply, MDF, chipboard etc?
Google is not my friend....
Weight of shet materials
Jun 21, 2011
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I guess you know the size and thickness so if you knew the density you could calculate the weight?
Some searches turned up these densities:
Chipboard 600 to 700 kg /m^3
Plywood 500 to 650 kg /m^3
MDF: 680?830 kg /m^3
Some data here for marine ply:
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wood is about 0.5-0.9 the weight of water.
a cubic meter of water weighs a metric tonne.
Unitary method?
Gareth's post reminds us that there's little to link chip and (particularly) mdf back to their native wood origins.
How accurately do you need to know? At a density of 0.75 an 8x4 of 18 mm is about 43 kg. Some sheet material has weights printed on it.
A gallon of water weighs 10lb. :-)
Blockboard is the lightest. 375 Kg/m3 they say
MDF just floats. Chip floats a little better.
You have a perfectly good way to estimate.
All of which fall nicely into the 0.5-0.9 tonnes per cubic meter.
Liteply is lighter, or even balsa wood, if we are deviating entirely from what the OP said...
This Australian site gives weights for MDF, various types of ply chip(particle) board and others in various sizes
MDF - scroll down the page for the table
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find the others click on the menu on the left.
michael adams
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