On 2/12/2016 11:05 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 2/12/16 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




As I'm in the middle of a drawer slide research adventure myself, I can
answer that.
One big selling pint I've been seeing on all these slides is "non
left-right" or universal fit. All the mounting holes are are in the
center of the slide so they can swap to left or right.

That's what you're dealing with on the lever release. Mounted on the
right, you push down; on the left, you push up. Or is it vise-versa? :-)



And there was a brand that I was using a few years back that used a tab
that you pushed in. That cuts down on the confusion but I find it much
easier to lift the lever than to push in on the tabs.