anyone clued up on specs of sheet goods? Valchromat vs. coloured moisture resistant V313 mdf

[pgrbff]

living in Italy but reading mainly about products available in the UK I'm not sure of the difference between Valchromat and the V313 coloured MDF I find locally.
any ideas?

 

[Myfordman]

Just be a case of comparing manufacturers data sheets. Density is possibly a good clue as to the amount of resin. Heavy = stronger

 

[pgrbff]

Just be a case of comparing manufacturers data sheets. Density is possibly a good clue as to the amount of resin. Heavy = stronger

unfortunately, I have datasheets for Valchromat but I'm not having much luck with V313. In Italy, it is well known that if you ask the same question of 5 people you will get 5 different answers.

 

[Myfordman]

You might find the vendors quote the weight of a sheet for delivery processes and you can do the comparison.
Surely vendors must issue product safety data. You are in euroland!

 

[pgrbff]

I may be in euroland but this is Italy. Furthermore, it's August and virtually everything shuts down for the entire month.
I think we sometimes have strange ideas about Europe and common laws, before Brexit that is.
In the UK I regularly saw animal welfare being discussed by farmers, in particular the stress it caused to take animals on such long trips to the slaughterhouse.
I lived on the main street of a small town, 2 doors down from the council building. Every Thursday morning around 5am a small lorry would turn up below my bedroom, I lived next door to the butcher. The ramp would come down, there would be lots of mooing, and the next thing I knew I could hear the chains of the winch lifting the poor beast on it's back legs. Was this legal? Was there a vet present? The butcher used to stand behind his counter smoking, he would often place his *** on the marble of the counter whilst he was reaching for a joint.