Drawer Slides

[Bud]

I am still working on my work bench in my shop (building drawers) and I would like to know which type of slides would be most recommended? Someone at work suggested I just build a shelf for each one to sit on.

Bud

[Black wallnut]

Small to medium sized drawers that will not hold much weight you could get away with no slides or a low priced slide such as Rockler stock number 34827.

Large drawers or those holding heavy items call fro full extension ball bearing slides like Rockler stock # 35565.

[drumpriest]

Blum cheap slides are pretty forgiving, 3/4 extension, rated at 100lbs. I've used them on a couple of projects and been happy.

The full extension slides don't allow for as much play in the cabinet size, but work well, are good bit more expensive though. Good for deep drawers where you wanna get way back into it. I used these on my desk drawers.

My technique is to build a face frame cabient, using a 1 1/2" face frame, attached with a 1/16" reveal, if I'm using ply for the sides. This allows for exactly a double stack of 23/32" ply (3/4). One of that stack is the cabinet wall, then I cut strips and install the slides onto those strips, and screw the strips into the cabinet. It's worked well for me.

[lcm1947]

What is a reveal? Sorry but I'm about to start making some drawers too and this might be something I need to know what it is.

[tfischer]

Rockler's slides will bankrupt you in a heartbeat. Try ebay, or CShardware.com. I've had great luck with CSH's Blum-wannabe slides (approximately $4 to Rockler's $14 each) and recently bought some full-extension 22" ball bearing glides from an eBay dealer for about $6 a pair... The "generic blum's" were indistinguishable from the real Blum's I've also use in the past, and CSH claims their specs are even tighter...

-Tim

[ddamoore]

Brian had posted this in a previous thread - http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...=drawer+slides

[Tom Miller]

I'm a big fan of full extenders, especially for the shop. Tim mentioned my usual go-to place for these: cshardware.

I just installed the ones I got from Brian's tip (not the exact ones he was posting about) -- they're not quite as beefy as the cshardware ones, but they were a pretty good price, and they're plenty good.

Regards,
Tom

[drumpriest]

Reveal == overhang. That is to say that instead of the face frame being flush with the plywood sides, the face frame extends 1/16" past the outside of the cabinet.



This image isn't to scale. The cabinet wall would be 23/32, and then the mounting strip that I use would be 23/32, which is 1/6" less than 1.5". You could do this with 2" material for the face frame, but the reveal would then be 9/16", which would work for kitchen cabinets, as it would allow for play in the wall.

[mschrank]

This link is also in the post Dennis mentioned:

http://www.gliderite.com/bearing.htm

I've used and am very happy with #70 series full extension glides (100 lb) capacity.
I've heard that shipping can be pretty high for areas of the country far away from the shipping origin (California), so watch for that.
Otherwise, very good price on bulk quantities (10-15 pairs). Although I didn't need 15 pairs, it was still much cheaper than any other source I could find at the time.

[lcm1947]

Thanks Keith for taking the time to answer my question. So that's what it is. I had never heard of it. Appreciate it.

[fasst1]

I am with ddamoore, I used these slides on my work bench and they are AWESOME. I think they might be better than the roller bearings in my craftsman tool chest. They are also very inexpensive, but HEAVY so shipping is a bit high. Overall I was very happy with these.

Greg