krw wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:14:55 -0500, "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


I've seen this before and it does make some sense (to someone). One
side is a mirror of the other. If you take the latch off once side
and flip it over, it fits on the other side but it's upside down,
hence operates backwards.


Actually, not a mirror image. If it were a mirror image both sides would
work the same. As it is both are identical, but you turn one upside down
to mount it properly. Which one is upside down is anybody's guess. :-)