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My wife had been after me to build some slide out shelves under the kitchen cabinets since we moved into our house almost 3 years ago. Of course, this job was a good ways down an already formidable sized honey-do-list but about a month ago, I finally got around to doing it. I ordered some nice, full-extension, 100 lb capacity drawer sides from Amazon and built and installed the 8 drawers in about 3 or 4 days. Unfortunately, the little woman didn't like them because the industrial strength drawer slides were too hard to operate. So I replaced the slides with some cheap euro-style slides which were probably half the weight-bearing capacity but they were also considerable easier to slide in and out. The miss's was delighted.
So, now I had a bunch of full-extension, industrial strength drawer slides that I wasn't keen on returning, so I decided some new drawers for my shop would be in order. My workbench had big, open spaces on each side of a tool chest I had installed in the middle, so, after some planning, some wood purchases, and some building, here's the result:
As you might have guessed, the new drawers are the ones that haven't yet developed a nice, dark patina from greasy hands...
Still have a few drawer slides left over, so I'm looking for places where I can put some more drawers.
Chuck
So, now I had a bunch of full-extension, industrial strength drawer slides that I wasn't keen on returning, so I decided some new drawers for my shop would be in order. My workbench had big, open spaces on each side of a tool chest I had installed in the middle, so, after some planning, some wood purchases, and some building, here's the result:
As you might have guessed, the new drawers are the ones that haven't yet developed a nice, dark patina from greasy hands...
Still have a few drawer slides left over, so I'm looking for places where I can put some more drawers.
Chuck