All you have to do is push thing together.   Then pull them apart when you want to disassemble.  Move over Domino!

 

https://lockdowel.com/news/

Verrry interesting. It's great to see that innovation is still alive. 

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Cabinets for the Shishmaref School, about 535 miles from Dreamworks Cabinetry in Fairbanks, will be transported via truck and ocean barge nearly 3000 miles before they arrive. 

Is this the new math? How is it they will travel almost 6 times further? I can understand some distance differences due to shipping routing but this much? What am I missing?

I also didn't see mention of what this system costs but confess I just skimmed over the posting.........

Not a lot of overland routes out of Fairbanks. And, it's about 500 mi. from the ocean. I'm guessing that school is on an island in the Arctic ocean. The logistics of shipping up there are pretty complicated.

2 hours ago, sreilly24590 said:

How is it they will travel almost 6 times further?

 

I think they are referring to shipping broken down versus assembled without damage.

 

Found a video on YouTube.

 

 

 

I went to youtube to see the concept and structure. It won't replace any jointery any time soon. I saw a guy build a birdhouse in 50 easy steps.  I can do the same much simpler and cheaper with a saw, some nails and a hammer.

However it will make Ikea very happy.

 

2 hours ago, sreilly24590 said:

Is this the new math? How is it they will travel almost 6 times further? I can understand some distance differences due to shipping routing but this much? What am I missing?

I also didn't see mention of what this system costs but confess I just skimmed over the posting.........

There was a map of the route on a related post last week.   It got trucked to a port, then around the horn to the destination by barge.

I was just surprised of how little force it took to pull apart (tension) and how little load it held (shear).    Lamello makse a biscuit system that has much stronger connections, IIRC.  https://www.lamello.com/inspiration/customer-reports/report/?tx_news_pi1[news]=443&cHash=4832e3fee2867d2c46ab31e9d2dacced

 

Oh boy another knock down syatem.

I notice everyone wearing gloves in video. Mmmmm......maybe these things are rough on the hands.

On 7/15/2019 at 7:00 AM, sreilly24590 said:

 How is it they will travel almost 6 times further?

Must be using my Garmin GPS: It likes to route things around the horn, too.    Gloves:  I'd wear 'em too if I was handling factory milled edges, which can be razor sharp.  It's a slick system, but like all snap-together, it rarely survives the third move.  Those fasteners in MDF abrade over time, but there's a good rationale for buying "one and done".  Note that all these fastener concepts depend on dead-on milling, and that equates to "factory" and sophisticated automation.  You can do it by hand, get the special router bit, make the jigs, but unless you're making 10,000 of them the juice ain't worth the squeeze.  I agree it's clever, but I don't agree it's a universal solution.  Of course the blanket box I'm planning for the spare bedroom might be a good test:  what's the cost of shipping to....well let's not go further than Baja California (it has a horn) and back!

 

 

Edited July 16, 20196 yr by PeteM