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Biscuit Joiner for MDF *LINK*

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Biscuit Joiner for MDF *LINK*

Susan

Can biscuit joiner be used to join MDF?


mellowpine

Re: Biscuit Joiner for MDF *LINK*

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Yes.....but like SPAM.....

roger lance

you never know what you're going to get.....

Re: Biscuit Joiner for MDF *LINK*

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Clint Searl

Re: Biscuit Joiner for MDF

Clint Searl

Biscuits for alignment; Titebond for adhesion.

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Re: Biscuit Joiner for MDF

TomD

You will get plenty of adhesion from the biscuits. They swell when you glue them in, and might crack the MDF. Takes a few minutes to do the test, and would probably be fine so long as the pieces are firm enough around the biscuits. So one can put double bicuits in 3/4 material but they are near the surface, that might not work kind of thing in a material like MDF, or if they were too far off center.

When milling a lot of biscuit slots it produces a lot of dust, for what one might think one would get. MDF is pretty nasty for dust, though a lot of jointers can be extracted. I take mine out of doors, and I rarely use MDF anyway.

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