Husky,

You comment that you are in military housing. Is this on a base which may have some shops available to base personnel? When I was in Vietnam, the Air Force base in Nha Trang had a wonderful woodshop. When I, with the 10 or so guys I was living with, were moved to different quarters we had a wide open barracks and everyone wanted their own rooms. I scrounged the materials and built the rooms, but couldn't find any doors. Well the wonderful AFB woodshop had a chainsaw mortiser and tenoner. So I made about 10 doors. If your base has a craftshop, adjusting that chunk of balsa should be a piece of cake.

Good luck, good scrounging,