There are a few types of ball bearing slides, including the epoxy coated
slides. Discounting the epoxy style slides that use the 2 wheels on each
side, the better slides that use ball bearings instead of wheels and or
wheels with ball bearings tend to stay adjusted better.

With the epoxy wheeled slides you often get side to side slop that seems to
be no better than no slide at all. In kitchens for the common drawer I use
the single centered under drawer ball bearing slide. For the heavier duty
applications I use the side mounted full extension slides. Both of these
style slides, mating parts, fit together with close tolerances thus
eliminating the typical side to side slop found on most drawers that use the
roller wheel type slides.




"Steve" wrote in message
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I am going to be refacing my kitchen cabinets (making new cabinet doors
and drawers). I have been on-line checking out the different types of
drawer slides that are on the market. There is a considerable difference
in price compared to the ball bearing drawer slides and the epoxy coated
drawer slides.
My question is, is there that much of a performance difference in the
ball bearing slides to pay the extra money? Where would be the best
place on line to purchase my hardware?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Steve M.