Thread: Making plywood drawers for 4wd

You could screw and glue it together or skew nail and glue . The screws will be the stronger way. And the nails will be less obvious. You can punch and fill the head holes.

I like making a simple square that clamps inside a box to one or two of the inside corners when making them like that . Two clamps on each . The longer the better. They hold it square as your drilling and screwing or nailing .

When skew nailing I drill the nail holes , sometimes with one of the nails Ill be using or the right drill bit. I grind the nail a touch thinner on the linisher first so the nails I drive into those holes go in tight and follow the hole perfectly . No coming out the side by mistake as well . If I was skew nailing that I might poke some glue in each nail hole as well . The simple act of skewing nails gives much better service over the life of the unit . It is an annoying thing that P####s me off to have twice owned different decks around a house and the nails were not skewed and are always working themselves up . They dont do that if you simply skew them . If you google skewed nail you see pictures where some are so skewed they cross over each other . Ive never done them that far . They dont need it . Its a good way nailed drawers were done . There are plenty of examples to be seen of 300 year old drawers still working that were Nailed.

Using 12mm ply. Sit the sides on the bottom and glue and nail using 30mm brads. Then screw 25mm x 25mm x 1mm aluminium angle along the full lenght as per the attached photo.DSC00030.JPG ..

These drawers are in my Troopy. I made them in 1999. They are 250mm high inside the drawer and run the full length to the front seats. They survived a vehicle rollover in 2010 and are now in replacement Troopy.DSC00044.JPGDSC00045.JPGDSC00046.JPGDSC00040.JPG

What happened to the Troopy ? Did it fall over

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https://youtu.be/ELP41pDKaqs?t=2

try that

Using Rods idea is great, the only thing I'd do different is to use araldite or similar to hold the aluminium in place.
The other suggestion is to use TOP QUALITY rollers. I used to use drawer runners that were rated at 100kg, as I used to manufacture Drawer systems and Fridge slides.
Kryn

Originally Posted by auscab

What happened to the Troopy ? Did it fall over

It was a low speed accident no more than 500 metres from home. A car coming out of a side street didn't want to stop and thus drove into and under my left side with my rear wheel mounting the cars bonnet tipping me over onto the righthand side and my vehicle slide along the road and also slide around to face the way I had just come from.

I've attached a document in .PDF. It shows how to make a jig for drawer boxes. The tools necessary are a dado blade and a table saw. I assumed using 1/2 inch or 12mm Baltic Birch plywood. The only exact part of the jig is the shim that is the exact width of the dado cut. I made the document for drawers with an overlay front to be added. If the front of the drawer is to show, just adjust your method.