What could be an excellent lightweight cabinet material would be
surplus commercial aircraft floorboard material.  Probably available
from Boeing's salvage yard/store. Balsa wood with an aluminum skin on
each side.... I'll check with a friend who works there.

Jim

On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 06:57 PM, jbange wrote:
>
> What are you building the cabinet out of? I've been looking into
> building a
> lightweight removable cabinet out of extruded aluminum "angle iron"
> (for
> the frame) and Aluminum Composite Panelling like those guys did with
> that
> syncro featured here
> <http://vanagon.com/info/vehicles/lightweight_syncro_16.html> , but I
> can't
> find any suppliers for the ACP who sell it by less than the
> truckload...
> For that matter, what is the regular Westy cabinetry made out of?
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>
>
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