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Default full extension slides for vertical partitions


"shred00" wrote in message

Yeah, that is the sort of thing that Morris Dovey suggested but they
mount against the cabinet sides.


You need to think sideways again ... there are many flipper door slides that
mount, with an "L" bracket, to the sides, that will also mount to a floor
and top (or a wooden strip mounted across the floor and top).

I use these on computer cabinets where the computers are mounted on pullout
slides and the flipper doors slide up, instead of sideways.

In any event, at least one possible solution to what you want to do
(providing you want to use/modify commercial slides) is the same principle
as the flipper door slide:

A vertical partition (door), attached by a hinge(s) to a vertical "follower
strip", with the "follower strip" attached to and running on the slides.

The problem with the "follower strip" method, as it is with flipper doors,
is that its width (plus a bit more for the hinged "join" to the partition)
is subtracted from the useable depth of the partition/door.

But that may be worth the tradeoff, particularly if you have a deep cabinet,
or can make it deeper.

FWIW ...

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