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Building Drawers with Veritas Micro Drawer Slides/Sides
Part 1 of 3:
Lee Valley makes and sells an aluminum extrusion that functions as both the sides and slides for drawers. See:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...50,43298,43315
Recently I made a couple of drawer units where each unit holds six drawers and the drawers are made utilizing these sides/slides.
One buys these sides/slides as 3 foot long sections of aluminum formed as shown below:
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The drawer bottoms slide into grove on the left bottom of the picture and the protrusion on the right bottom slides along a groove that is cut into the case using a “regular” table or circular saw blade.
Following is a picture essay covering drawer construction using these things.
01) The aluminum is cut to the desired length for the drawer sides. In my case, this was 30 centimetres (a little less than a foot) and this allowed me to get three sides out of one piece with very little waste.
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02) Four holes were drilled into each of the 24 drawer sides using a #4 (Imperial) non-ferrous metal countersink bit from Lee Valley (catalogue number: 66J40.04).
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03) Twenty four drawer fronts and backs, each 350 mm by 95 mm (a little less than 14 inches by 4 inches) were cut out of 12 mm (a little less than 1/2 inch) baltic birch. The stop on my new JessEm miter gauge came in very handy for this and, as shown in the photo below, it also made removing small triangles from each of the bottom corners a breeze.
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04) As shown in the picture to below, the fronts and backs were attached to the sides using #4 5/8 inch flat head screws with a #0 Robertson (non-power) screw driver. Before they were attached, the backs and fronts had been painted with two coats of flat black Tremclad paint.
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No drawer stops -Help please!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Clardy
Provision for drawer stops Frank?
Funny you should ask me that Steve, because this afternoon my wife looked at the drawers for the first time and asked if the drawers had stops. Her (valid) reasoning is if children are going to use them, there should be something there to stop them from pulling the drawer right out. I am ashamed :o to admit that I had not thought of it.
I figured out what I can do for each of the six drawers at the top of the cabinets :) . That is to install small corner braces (see: http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/pa...50310&p=50310) near the front of the cabinet and these will catch the drawer back so prevent the drawer from being pulled out.
I still have not come up with something far the six drawers at the bottom of the cases :confused: . Maybe something involving a bolt that slides in a groove that does not extend right to the front of the case (but I doubt that I can now cut such a grove since the cabinet it together. Any ideas anyone?