Bill Huber
07-24-2007, 9:20 PM
Up until now I have been building stuff for the shop and things like that but now I have a real job to do...:mad:
My daughter got married last month and they have a house they just bought the problem is there are 2 pan drawers under the counter top stove that are gone, they are still there but in really bad shape.
So I said I would take a look at them.
The current drawers are made of a fairly tight grained particle board, not MDF. The sides and back are 1/2 inch with a 7/32 Masonite bottom. They had a particle board brace on the bottom that was about 6 inches wide and its gone. The bottoms look like the top of the AstroDome, they are so bad that the bottom of one will rub on the face frame when you pull it out. They are 22 inches deep and 29 inches wide and the sides are 7 inches. The fronts are fine and I can take them off and put them on the new drawer.
These are pan drawers, hold heavy pots, pans and skillets so my plan.
I plan to use 1/2 plywood all around with good locking miters on the corners. I was thinking of using 3/8 plywood for the bottoms.
Now the question do you think I need to have a brace under the 3/8 plywood on a 29 inch wide drawer?
My daughter got married last month and they have a house they just bought the problem is there are 2 pan drawers under the counter top stove that are gone, they are still there but in really bad shape.
So I said I would take a look at them.
The current drawers are made of a fairly tight grained particle board, not MDF. The sides and back are 1/2 inch with a 7/32 Masonite bottom. They had a particle board brace on the bottom that was about 6 inches wide and its gone. The bottoms look like the top of the AstroDome, they are so bad that the bottom of one will rub on the face frame when you pull it out. They are 22 inches deep and 29 inches wide and the sides are 7 inches. The fronts are fine and I can take them off and put them on the new drawer.
These are pan drawers, hold heavy pots, pans and skillets so my plan.
I plan to use 1/2 plywood all around with good locking miters on the corners. I was thinking of using 3/8 plywood for the bottoms.
Now the question do you think I need to have a brace under the 3/8 plywood on a 29 inch wide drawer?