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Default Push, pull, click click

On 2/12/2016 9:14 AM, dadiOH wrote:
I finished the vanity pull out I was making and installed it late yesterday.
It was a tight fit so my job for today was to take it out and skinny stuff
down a skosh.

Now, I am using full extension, ball bearing slides on it - HD best &
greatest - and they have a little lever that has to be pushed down to
release the drawer member from the frame member. The pull out is open to
the room on one side, close to a wall on the other; easy to release the
lever on the open side, just push the lever down. It is moderately more
difficult on the wall side as I can't see it but room enough to get my arm
down and feel it. Problem is, the damn thing wouldn't release...

Push lever down, try to pullout the pullout, tight as a drum, curse. The
foregoing was repeated numerous times. In between times, I was trying to
think of another way to get at it...cut through both sides of wall and
remove baseboard?...crowbar?

Finally, cursing silently, I pulled the lever up instead of pushing down.
It released.

Push down on one side, pull up on the other. Does that make sense? To the
manufacturer, I guess because he only had to make one configuration instead
of two, the second being a mirror image of the first. It doesn't please me





Yeah! LOL Those slide normally come as "non handed" meaning neither
slide has to be used on a particular side. SOOOOO as you noticed if you
push up or down on one side you do the opposite on the other because one
of the slides is upside down.

The beauty is that yo do not have to keep up with which one goes on
which side when you are mounting dozens at a time.

Glad you did not crow bar it open. LOL