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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of
shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Tillman |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
tillius wrote:
Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. If you froogle '12" full extension slide' then you'll find several sources for $8 or so. I've ordered stuff from right-tool and while you won't hear a word from them after the order, it did arrive in a timely manner. One place I worked I had an ancient filing cabinet with wooden full extension slides. I would _not_ recommend them. Too long a moment arm with the drawer full open led to sag, the tracks were no longer smooth so opening and closing a full drawer took three men and a donkey, all around it was a pain in the butt. Having had that experience I don't begrudge the slide manufacturers their price--if it's something that has to work and removing the drawer is not an acceptable alternative to full extension then go with the commercial slides. Tillman -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
"tillius" wrote in message om... Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Tillman Yes you can. You can get 9.75" full extension slides for as little as $4.92 each in sets of 10 or $6.09 each singly. Take a look here and scroll down the page. http://wwhardware.com/catalog.cfm?Gr...%20E xtension |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
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says... Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Tillman Check out www.gliderite.com -- Regards, Rick (Remove the HIGH SPOTS for e-mail) |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
Fine Woodworking did some several years ago. I made some for a shop
cabinet, but they were pretty tedious to make and seem to lack the strength and smoothness of metal slides. I'd recommend against making your own. If you're still interested, I'll see if I can find the issue number. Kevin "tillius" wrote in message om... Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Tillman |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
FWW July/August 2000 has the plans for the full ext wood slides I made. I
would not do it again. If you're going to have drawers on both sides of your cart, why not just make full width (depth?) drawers that open from both sides? Then you can use simple wooden drawer runners, since the drawers only open 1/2 way. Kevin "Kevin Wilcox" wrote in message ... Fine Woodworking did some several years ago. I made some for a shop cabinet, but they were pretty tedious to make and seem to lack the strength and smoothness of metal slides. I'd recommend against making your own. If you're still interested, I'll see if I can find the issue number. Kevin "tillius" wrote in message om... Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Tillman |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
On 7 May 2004 20:50:06 -0700, (tillius)
brought forth from the murky depths: Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Precision hardware isn't as cheap as wood. For at least one cart, consider a tiered, pull-out shelf insert which would take several layers and eliminate all but 2 slides for that expanded depth. www.wwhardware.com has Blum epoxy-coated 3/4 ext. slides in boxes of 25 sets for $110. (My local hardwood store has import epoxy-coated slides for $3/pair and Lee Valley has kitchen slides for $2.90/pr) www.leevalley.com has metal drawers with tabs on the side which work as slides in kerfs cut into the cabinet sides. 05K98.10 (Note to Robin Lee: Please index these under "drawers", too.) 12K78.01 are sides onto which you build the rest of the drawer. Last, but not least, consider using wood as slides for some of the lesser-used drawers. (I have to wax my built-in dresser drawers twice a year, but that takes about 15 minutes each time. They work pretty smoothly waxed-wood-on-waxed-wood for quite a while.) Cut dadoes in the cabinet sides (or overlay 1/2" panels less the slots) and add strips to the drawers as slides. -- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT? --------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Sin-free Website Design |
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Shop made full extension wooden drawer slides
Thanks for the advice all - I've decided to use regular waxed wooden
slides on this project. Tillman Larry Jaques wrote in message . .. On 7 May 2004 20:50:06 -0700, (tillius) brought forth from the murky depths: Does anyone know of a source online for plans, photos, or drawings of shop built full extension drawer slides? I'm designing my shop carts and need to add drawers for holding bits, screws, etc. The drawers will be on both sides of my 24" wide cart so will only be 10" deep. Can't find metal drawer slides that short plus the closest I've found are $10-20 each and with 16 drawers that's going to cost more than the wood I'm building the cart from. Precision hardware isn't as cheap as wood. For at least one cart, consider a tiered, pull-out shelf insert which would take several layers and eliminate all but 2 slides for that expanded depth. www.wwhardware.com has Blum epoxy-coated 3/4 ext. slides in boxes of 25 sets for $110. (My local hardwood store has import epoxy-coated slides for $3/pair and Lee Valley has kitchen slides for $2.90/pr) www.leevalley.com has metal drawers with tabs on the side which work as slides in kerfs cut into the cabinet sides. 05K98.10 (Note to Robin Lee: Please index these under "drawers", too.) 12K78.01 are sides onto which you build the rest of the drawer. Last, but not least, consider using wood as slides for some of the lesser-used drawers. (I have to wax my built-in dresser drawers twice a year, but that takes about 15 minutes each time. They work pretty smoothly waxed-wood-on-waxed-wood for quite a while.) Cut dadoes in the cabinet sides (or overlay 1/2" panels less the slots) and add strips to the drawers as slides. |
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