Meanie wrote:
On 12/1/2013 9:17 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Meanie wrote:
I'm in the process of making this
http://www.kitchensource.com/cau/na-p0650mnl1.htm but I need the
sliding hardware to complete the project. It cannot be a full drawer
slide for obvious reasons you'll see when viewing the site. I'm
thinking I may be able to use these
http://www.thehardwarehut.com/catalo...hp?p_ref=21462

Can anyone confirm they will work and/or suggest a place I can
purchase the proper slides needed?


The pocket door slide in your second link is not what you want for the
cabinet in the first link. The slides in the first link are just standard
slides. You can get those at any big box store. The only difference
between them and a traditional drawer is that they are mounted sideways.
The swingaway is just mounted to the style with a piano hinge.

The standard slides will not work. You will notice the cabinet unit mount
with hinge is mounted to the 14" x 6" piece of stock mounted to the
slide. A standard slide uses equal length tracks. There isn't any way to
install that mount to the track without it hindering the function of the swing out cabinet.

The 14 x 6 mount cannot be mounted on the front section of the slides
since it needs to retract all the way in. It needs to be fastened at the
back of the slides. If you do that, you'll have the entire front section
of the slides sticking out, thus, hindering the area for the cabinet to
swing out. Therefore, the type of slides needed would contain an entire
outer track length with a small inner track section to allow full
movement within the entire outer track.

Never tried this, but it might be worth looking into, and provide a
solution.

There are two basic components to "drawer" slides: the cabinet side part,
and the drawer side part.

It appears that the problem you're facing is that the drawer side part must
be considerably shorter than the cabinet side part, and still be able to
slide the entire length of the cabinet side part, for the hinged unit to
work and still go inside the cabinet box.

It looks like this is what has been done by the manufacturer, who has had
custom drawer slides made for this particular purpose.

Have you thought about the possibility of trying to interchange the parts
of two pairs of drawer slides, same make and model, but of different
lengths, to see if that would work, either out of the box, or with some
modification to the shorter, drawer side part?

Might also be worth a call to a slide manufacturer to explore this
possibility.

FWIW ...

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