Drawer slides..I'm not bright enought to work this out

Hi roger

its 2 peices of C section one inside the other.

No I haven't tried graphite powder perhaps I should as a short term fix

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

rub them down with a candle or sexwax.

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Good idea dave perhaps I should try your idea on one drawer and rogers on the other see which helps the most:)

You'll probably find that one of those solutions just won't have the staying power .................................I'll leave it to you to figure out which one. :wasntme:

Well I dont think either are ideal as I cant imagine the wax sticking and I cant imagine the graphite poweder staying in the channels long enough with the draw pulling in and out..

but hopefully it will help untill I think of something better

Graphite spray lube.
Sprays on like paint,dry instantly.Sticks like paint.
I use it on the mulboard slides and circle slides on my Grader.You can buy it from Volvo(CJD Equipment) or CAT(whoever your Cat dealer is over there).
It a much better product than graphite powder.
Andrew

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Originally Posted by dullbird

Bugger.

Built the drawers they look smick....but the C section just doesn't work...grrrrrr you really have to pull and tiggle to get the thing moving there is just to much friction. :(

Disapointed as we spent a lot of time on it getting it right.....

Might try the single roller bearing route I picked a couple up today might try it on the smaller draw see how it goes on one piece of C section. *sigh*

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Is everything square? If out by a fraction and you have too close of tolerence with the C-section could also be a cause of your issues.

we got everything as square as we could even took down the C section on one side so when attached to the drawer it wasn't a tight fit.

Top one slides Ok'ish after putting some ballistol in the channel but bottom one does not want a bar of it.

will re think...