Or call into a building site and see if you can pick up a few lengths of the yellow nylon 'tongue' from the particle board sheet flooring. A few strips under each drawer and away you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
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Or call into a building site and see if you can pick up a few lengths of the yellow nylon 'tongue' from the particle board sheet flooring. A few strips under each drawer and away you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
Being an ex cabinet maker of 27 years, I worked with drawer runners a lot in the past.
Anything over ~600-700mm is considered longer than 'standard', so they tend to jump up in price a fair bit.
There are a couple of options.
If your drawers are, for example, 900mm long, you could use 700mm runners, but this means the last 200mm of the drawer wont come right out, not a big deal as you should be able to easily reach in there. If you want to boost the load carrying capacity of the drawer, simply put 2 pair of the same runners on the drawer. Even your standard kitchen drawer runners are rated to about 30kg per pair. I like to double them up in a vehicle application anyway because they weren't really designed to cope with vibration etc.
I had a look at Hafele's web site. At a glance it seems runners over 700mm are heavy duty and anything over 800mm is only in the extra heavy duty section (see pic below)
I wouldn't expect them to be cheap, but if you want to give them a call just for interest, the NSW contact details are here >>> Hafele <<<
The heavy duty one's would be great, but I've had doubled up standard one's on the drawers in the County for a couple of years and they're still ok, and they're pretty cheap to replace............especially when you have some spare one's in the cupboard ;)
Dust is what will kill them. I'd suggest washing off the grease that comes on them and use some graphite powder or other type of 'dry' lube ( or buy a car that has door seals that work :D )
Cheers, Murray
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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
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Originally Posted by Xtreme
That's similar to what I did on my previous drawer setup. Just rub a dry cake of soap on the mating surfaces now and then and they will work even better.
Cheers, Murray
I expected them to get sticky with dust,
Did not know that the fines in australian "bulldust" in some cases are technically a lubricant...
Talcum powder works well also ................ similar to 'bulldust' I guess. ;)
I'm really trying to picture how two standard ones doubled up would work...?????
if I put two 500mm ones on for instance surely I only get the 500mm extension of the first slide.
what I'm thinking though is if my drawer is 1000 then maybe I could put an 800 on would still save me some money..
Although I have noticed that some of the larger drawer slides dont fully extend so I guess that's something I have to be careful of
re: two on each side i think what they mean is you install them above each other to increase the load capacity not how far you can pull them out.....Quote:
Originally Posted by dullbird
i have been really happy with the ones i buy at $22 a pair.....go with the 700mm
good point that somebody menntioned about washinf the oil/grease out and using graphit powder
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Ok now some of you may laugh.....
I have bought some ali 'C' section (most of the stuff I have used is ali as I really need too save weight mainly because I have to manually lift this thing out of my car ever 3 months for a change over) I'm going to try a poor mans slide as one C section fits in side another.. Its a meter length.
I figured I will give it a try and if it doesn't work I will pull the C section off the draw and put roller bearings on the draw like scott suggested. I just figured this way a good portion of the draw will still be supported when I pull it out unlike using a bearing with a plastic or nylon roller.
And if that doesn't work I will bite my tongue and open my wallets and buy proper drawer slides.
This cost me less than 20bux so figured I would give it a go:)
its not going to slide nicely like a proper draw slide but as long as I can slide it out relatively easily it will do
Until someone uses an open drawer as a step to reach stuff on the roofrack... I have seen it done!Quote:
Originally Posted by dullbird
the C section will work nicely... I've done it before...
after a few trips the owner decided they were a mite sticky and replaced one side of the C section with the PFTE nylon stripping (thats how I learnt that trick)
if you do the C section you can also buy a single roller bearing that fits inside of it and mount it at the back of the draw (if you affix the c section to the vehicle) or to the back of the vehicle (if you affix the C section to the drawer.
with the C section chamfer the leading edges with a radius curve so you dont jag things on them or have them gouge each other.