Mcm sideboard/credenza

[Cathy Haley]

Not sure where to post this question so I am adding it here. I am about to refinish a mcm credenza made in 1965 by the Honderich co of Ontario. When I removed the sliding doors from their tracks, I noticed that the backs of doors are taped. Since it is all 3 of them and the tape itself looks old, it appears that this is part of the manufacturing. Can anyone explain why they would make the doors this way? Thanksdoor1.jpgdoor2.jpg

[Andy Giddings]

Am assuming that this is a replacement tape that somebody stuck on when the original tape broke - certainly looks like a homework job. I believe the tape ensures the doors slide as a single unit and is something you normally see in a curved track with a tambour door. Unless the 3 doors are joined together in some other way?

[Cathy Haley]

Am assuming that this is a replacement tape that somebody stuck on when the original tape broke - certainly looks like a homework job. I believe the tape ensures the doors slide as a single unit and is something you normally see in a curved track with a tambour door. Unless the 3 doors are joined together in some other way?

Thanks for the reply. What I posted were the pix of one door. Each door has sections which the tape seems to keep in place but all 3 doors have the tape and it is the same tape. What I don't understand is why they made the doors like that in the first place. When I first saw them, I thought they had been mended but that doesn't seem to be the case. Most of the sliding doors that I have encountered ( used to have a teak kitchen) were in one piece.

[glenn bradley]

No help but, I just had a hilarious visual of some poor soul re-working a piece of mine 60 years from now and asking "why did he do that?"