Hi all,
I am planning to put a big drawer underneath the last few steps of our basement stairs. Since the stairs is 36 wide, I like to get a pair of glides at least 32 long and I plan to install them underneath the drawer instead of on the sides. Shopped at HomeDepot and a couple local woodworking supply stores and found out that the longest they carry is 24. I wonder if anybody knows any place on the Internet I can get longer glides?
Thank you in advance,
wt
Have you looked at Rockler.com? - They have lots of goodies.
Dick
If you go to Woodworker's Hardware
http://www.wwhardware.com/
and look at part number KV8900 B32, you'll find the 32 slides your looking for. They are full extension ball bearing slides, and have a 500# capacity. They're not cheap, though. One set is $109.26. They sell them in lengths up to 60.
Part number B430E 32WH is also 32, and is a side/bottom mount that sels for $42.09 a set. But their white, if that makes a difference to you.
If the drawer can be constructed to accommodate casters, they might be better than guides, allow rolling around on the floor. I'd create pockets at the drawer corners to set the casters into, lose only a little space.
Whenever you put side mount drawer slides under a drawer, you can bet on it only holding 1/2 the weight that it claims to hold as a side mount.
Originally Posted by Boxarocks
If the drawer can be constructed to accommodate casters, they might be better than guides, allow rolling around on the floor. I'd create pockets at the drawer corners to set the casters into, lose only a little space.
Thank you all for the valuable information.
Putting casters sounds like a better idea to me than the glides I originally thought. However, it is still a little obscure how the finished drawer front is going to butt with the floor. I am guessing that I have to make the drawer front face 2 or 3 inches lower than the drawer bottom to cover the gap created by the casters and just leave a small gap above the carpet, maybe 1/8? Correct?
Also, I can't visualize how the drawer front bottom side butts with the baseboard molding on the walls beside the drawer.
I've done the caster / drawer thing, so can advise some caveats.
Into the bottom corners of your drawer box, build a small cutout, into which the casters will be installed.
A drawing here:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...awercorner.jpg
This allows a deeper drawer to be built.
Make the drawer box, then install a 2nd finished front, which can be sized adjusted to the opening. Adjust for carpet clearance now.
After fitting installing the finished front, attach a piece of baseboard to the drawer front.
Attach wood as lateral horizontal guides to the under stair framing, to keep the drawer rolling strait. Possibly liquid nails a 2X4 to concrete floor may work!
Don’t use swivel casters, as the drawer will wander.
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