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You could probably go with 6 or 9mm skin ply if you built the desktop as a torsion box.
My concern would be the strength of those hinge/runners and the mounting screws.
Maybe look at fold down legs to support the front edge of the desk?
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torsion box
but that'll involve introducing another material thickness to the design [grinds teeth]
Some drop down legs might be possible, and thinking about it could look quite nice as I could maintain the ply edge detail all the way down the front face when closed. Think it'll still need stays to stop someone* just dropping it to the floor/on to a foot.
*probably me.
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Question for the hobbyist/pro carpenter types;
I'm trying to design a bereau type wall mounted desk unit desk itself will be no deeper than 600mm and sorted by the things pictured below.
My question is about sag, and how to avoid it. I'm guessing 1 skin of 18mm ply will be bendy so considering making the desk a shallow box section with a small recess to stash keyboard etc. Either that or just double up the ply, possibly with some kind of metal reinforcement sandwiched in between.
Any tricks I'm missing?