When you need the most strength, don’t rely on fingers to hold the bottom in, instead extend the sides of your box down and make captive slots for the bottom fingers to slot into.
Here’s an example:
A friend/colleague (he is our hospital CIO) owns a farm/animal sanctuary and he brews beer, mead and cider (he got the farm craft brewery license a couple years back) from their farm apples and bees. The farm also happens to conveniently be at the mid point of my shorter 32mi bike route, so is our water refill point, so was out there yesterday with my niece on a ride. (they have alpacas, goats, pigs, apple orchard, blue berry fields, bees, a shiitake farm, chickens, horses, geese, etc). They als…
Alnother option would be to double it up, like here:
Just came across this video showing an improved design for making strong boxes from laser cut plywood. I thought it was very interesting, and he supplies a Fusion 360 model in the links.
[Better Boxes]
Found it while leafing through the Just Add Sharks blog , a UK laser company that recently closed. Their blog has many years of links to interesting laser cutter projects, though.
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