"Leon" wrote in message
"David" wrote in message

If they retool the molds and re-release the product so that a drawer
slide
will sit perfectly perpendicular to the face plate of the Kreg jig, THEN
it will be a useful tool. Their selling point is that it allows for
fast
positioning of a drawer slide. The reality is that the slides tilt down
at the rear.

How much do they tilt down? I wonder if that is to make the slides self
closing and or at least to help prevent the slide from opening on its
own.
The only problem I can see is that the drawer fronts will not fit flush to
the face frame.

Strange ...

It's been awhile, but I just had the opportunity to use my Kreg drawer slide
mounting jig again today to mount two drawers in a cabinet.

The drawer slides were those el cheapo/Euro, low profile, 3/4 extension,
white/brown ones ... the ones that have that slight dip downward at the back
of the cabinet end to facilitate closing.

I waited until after the drawers were mounted to check the 'squareness' of
the jig. As reported in this thread, it is definitely not square at the "T"
where the handle joins, at least to a well maintained 6" engineers square..

However, after installation, the top of the drawer slides _are_ square to
the cabinet front with that same engineers square, and the overlay drawer
fronts are flush with the cabinet all the way round.

IOW, the thing works, as it always has for me, without any apparent
problems. (I've only used it rarely with side mount ball bearing slides and
don't recall having a problem there either)

Go figure ... and trust me, SNAFU is the operative word in my life here
lately.

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