>Mike, any estimate as to the total cost of the cabinet?
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I don't really have a cost estimate since I had most of the materials
already. The plans are available for $7.50 by themselves and the kit costs
$139 (it was $119 when I bought it). I bought the kit which includes the
gun, foot pedal and pickup tube. I already had the lumber and angle iron
but it was 2 sheets of plywood for the size I built, the size in the plans
is built with one sheet. There is probably 20 feet of angle iron and a few
steel caster which could be replaced by a few 2x4s. The gloves I bought at
Builders Emporium before they went under for $12 and the glass came from a
auto wrecking yard off of the side of a wrecked Toyota camper shell for $5.
Plywood runs between $14 and $20 around here depending on the quality so
for the size in the plans thats lets say $20, glass should have cost me $18
at the glass shop, I think it could be done for under $250 total if you
shopped around, I did mine for $150 in cash and used up remnants around the
shop that were sitting unused.
I noticed that TIP also has a "complete" kit for $219 that includes the
gloves, glass, glass frame, light kit...I would probably go that route if I
was going to redo it, I have seen the TIP gloves and they are much higher
quality than what I bought at Builders and it would save the time hunting
down the detail parts.
By the way, I like my cabinet it works well and I can't imagine how I did
anything without one before !
mike
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