On 10/10/2019 12:13 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 10/10/2019 8:43 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Bob La Londe writes:
On 10/4/2019 1:24 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

Well after much thought I figure I'll go with 3/4 plywood and pocket
screws with Titebond.

Personally, I'd use box joints for the drawer sides; much stronger.

Well, box joints are certainly stronger. I agree, but they fail in the
faster department. I have glued and screwed drawers with hundreds of
pounds of bolts, motors, etc in them now. They are several years old.
The slides will fail from overloading before the drawers do.

I've no experience with making drawers for holding hundreds of lbs. of
motors and such, but, I absolutely would not simply use Titebond and
pocket screws with plywood. Pocket screws are not appropriate, imo, for
any drawer and gluing plywood edge grain to face grain is also a no no
in my book, especially if strength is an issue.

Personally, I wouldn't even use plywood, I'd use 1x material with at a
bare minimum of locking rabbited drawer joints and glue. No screws
needed but could clamp with nail gun for speed while glue dries. This
would be very fast for multiple drawers of a standard size on just your
table saw, and way stronger than pocket screws, glue and plywood.

Also it's worth noting that drawers do not need to be the full height of
the drawer opening. The drawers mainly just need to keep the items from
rolling off the drawer. You can save a lot of material with 100 drawers
that way. Use plywood for the bottoms.

--
Jack
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.