Thread: quick drawer slide question

The short answer is: No. I have looked at this application and found several problems. However, Accuride makes a center-mount slider. Check this link:

http://www.accuride.com/products/woo...c=lightduty_wa

Good luck.

Some years back, I had a slide that was designed to be mounted on the bottom of the drawer. it was a largish triangular plate that you affixed to the bottom, and it fit into a guide. I don't remember where I got it. However, Rockler has an Accuride center mounted slide . Here is a link.

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=1493

Hi WWM.

I'm assuming you're in the original Munchen, and not a sister city in the US.

(I spent time working there, enjoyed Germany.)

Look up Hafele - they have an undermounted drawer slide. Sorry that I don't have a catalogue handy to give you the number.

CHeers,

eddie

Some of the big Accuride drawer slides CAN be mounted under-drawer, but the loading is typically about 20>40% of the vertical load. Of course, the only ones they advertise for that are their 500Kg slides, 100Kg under drawer but they can take 200kg if their cabinet is not moved loaded.

With DVD drawers, I can't see you loading them up enough to cause a problem unless you are making 600mm deep drawers and then filling them with DVDs without cases. No guarantee on what will happen if small children use them for mountain climbing

Hi

Originally Posted by woodworkerman

Can a typical Accuride full-extension drawer slide be used as a bottom slide instead?

No

Is it likely to have much weight-bearing capacity if set horizontal?

No

I'm building a couple of DVD cabinets that will be about 3' tall with multiple shelves, all attached within a structure that will have only a single sliding mechanism on the bottom. Any other suggestions for mechanical slides?

That sounds a lttle weird?

Do you mean that the WHOLE 3' tall structure will have only one "drawer" to slide out. Perhaps I misunderstand your description.

Anyway the slide that Doc Ron pointed out at...

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=1493

... or VERY similar, can be obtained from Cornalls, if you have acess to them.

Why can't you use the full extension drawer slide in the correct orientation?

Perhaps you could hang the "drawer" from the top of the cabinet?

Perhaps you could use 4x smaller drawer slides (2x at the top, 2x at the bottom) to minimise the drawer slide HEIGHT factor while still retaining the load capacity?

I gather you may have a "problem" with the visual appearance?

A "stack" of DVDs 3' tall WILL be quite heavy - although I guess you already know this

If you can provide a rough sketch of what you are trying to do/make maybe other suggestions could be proposed?

Been curious.......never used the underside mount......for those who have, do they work as smoothly as a side mounted pair???? One day I will use them....do they work better if used in pairs rather then single???

very curious.....Neil

We have have a kitchen reno done last year and in the old one the pantry was a double door unit, the new one is a slide-out and it works well, it is about 700mm W x 800mm D x 1200mm H. It carries a lot of weight like dry and tinned goods, cereal and snacks plus all of the other bulky stuff found in a typical kitchen. So my suggestion to you is go and have a talk to your local kitchen showroom mob or manufacturer. Hope that gives you some help!