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Roll top desk repair slats.
Tambour doors have a number of applications from the home to the office to retail stores.
How to replace roll top desk cloth.
Roll top desks feature a flexible door or tambour made from several wooden slats which when pushed or pulled glide along side tracks to open or close the desk.
Repair those sticking or broken roll top desks with this all natural cotton twill tambour cloth.
Whether you re building or restoring a roll top desk creating a kitchen storage cabinet or working on any other number of projects that are ideal for a rolling door you ll find the supplies you need here.
All that you ll need to fix the desk is some heavy duty fabric and glue i used wood glue but i m sure craft glue would work as well.
After taking it out of the desk i realized that a roll top is constructed of wood slats attached to a fabric backing.
Remove the sliding slatted door called a tambour.
Wipe each slat with a cloth or paper towel wet with lacquer thinner.
Human hands cannot tear this remarkable fabric.
Inspect the tambour cloth the lift bar and the slats to determine if the slats need to be reglued or if.
The upper part of the top isn t level or has a gap to the right side where it meets the desk top from zero on the left to nearly 3 8 on the.
Tambour cloth is sold by the yard.
The fabric on mine was old and had worn enough to allow the slats to pull apart.
Rather than cutting a rabbet in one board another option would be to nail a small slat type board onto another making for a step down edging similar to a rabbet cut.
Some people believe that disassembling a roll top desk to make repairs to the tambour is like finding the key to a chinese puzzle box.
My antique roll top desk suffered some during moving.
Oct 26 2013 40 years ago i was the first one in san diego to sell a roll top desk for 2500.
Bring a slat with you so the rabbet can be cut to the depth of the slat.
