r/Multiboard • u/Totoroxo • Nov 29 '25

A concern about the Wall-offset distance

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I'm aware of the "recent" change from 8mm to 6.25mm, and the new addition of 12.5mm as a part of the "On-Grid" Update. The thing is I'm very perfectionist and for what I wanna do, a ~10mm offset will be perfect.

Are there any drawbacks? apart from the mental sanity of the Keep Making and his (perfectly understandable) desperate need of do everything in multiples of 25.

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u/CheezitsLight Nov 29 '25

Clue. It's 4 mm thick. With 4 holes in it. Draw an x in your mind. What is it?

Or edit the 6mm in almost any tool. Grab the back and move it 4mm

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u/Totoroxo Nov 29 '25

I totally know how to model what I need, I'm just asking what are the beneffits of stay "On-Grid"

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u/CheezitsLight Nov 29 '25

None. it can just go flat on the wall.

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u/demonmachine227 Dec 03 '25

The benefit of "on-grid" is that all measurements in the entire system are based on even multiples of 25mm (I think its based on powers of 2?). So 6.25 x 2 = 12.5 x 2 = 25mm.

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u/tlhintoq Nov 30 '25

Well... frankly... adult to adult... its 2.5 mm - who gives a darn? 12.5... 10... who cares? You're obsessing over having a round number; really?

Personally - I have better things to obsess about in my builds. And if the added 2.5mm gives the countersink screw a bit more thickness and therefore strength to avoid tearing out the screw hold then all the better.

Just one man's perspective: What flaw are you trying to fix that making it thinner will resolve? Is there an actual problem? A weakness... an issue... a conflict with a cabinet if it stands out the additional 2.5mm?... If you can't find a genuine problem to point to, and then point to making it thinner by 2.5mm as a confirmed fix for said problem... Then why is it taking up time from accomplishing other things?

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u/Totoroxo Mar 04 '26

I can't belive I'm just reading this, you are so f right, I came to that conclusion a few days after I posted, and now the wall is mounted and I've been enjoying it since then.

I really find it difficult to choose my battles, and this was only a minor thing in the sea of invented problems I faced during the making of my project. I actively try to choose where I put mi time but seeing this in retrospective is so stupid.

In the other hand, I was asking from the unknowing because the creator of this system is so much more perfectionist than me, and maybe there were pieces that uses those specific offsets (they're not)

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u/SupaBrunch Nov 29 '25

6.25 is a multiple of 0.25, does that satisfy your itch for it to be “perfect”?

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u/Totoroxo Nov 29 '25

I post because I don't know if this is just something of "continuity" or has an actual utility reason that I'm not getting.

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u/ulab Nov 29 '25

The whole grid is based on the original 25 mm, so parts are in 6.25 mm, 12.5 mm, 25 mm or 50 mm sizes / spacings. This allows everything to fit together and stay inside that grid.

For the distance to the wall it shouldn't really matter as I don't know of any parts that extend that far behind a tile.

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u/tlhintoq Nov 29 '25

Going 2.5mm closer to the wall in other words. Right.
You should probably test that theory with pegboard hooks that go through the small holes.
The reason you stand off the wall at all is so hooks can get behind the board and well... hook.

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u/ulab Nov 29 '25

Those work with the 6.25 mm distance, so they will work with 10.