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Diagnose Drawer Slide Problems

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What happens here

The creator investigates why the drawers are not functioning correctly. He uses a small t-square (from a Ryobi circular saw) to point out the issue: metal tabs inside the toolbox frame that hold the drawer slides are either bent inwards or popped outwards. This prevents the drawers from being inserted or removed easily, or from sliding smoothly. A text overlay notes that the drawers were likely overloaded, causing this damage.

Goal: Locate and understand the cause of the stuck or malfunctioning drawers.

Tools and materials

  • Red Toolbox — The item being repaired
  • T-Square Ryobi — Identifying the bent tabs and prying them into position

What they say

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to the next. Okay. So for the purpose of taking the drawers out and fixing the drawers, I have been using this right here. This is a little t-square that came with my Ryobi circular saw. This little thing, it just comes in handy for what I'm using it for, right? I need to be able to get down in the side of this right here, the side of these drawers. And I need to push this little piece of divot metal. But what I think has happened here because this whole thing is metal construction, I think that between this right here being not popped out enough to actually keep the drawer from coming out. And if you look right up here, right there, you can actually see that this part of the piece that catches the slide for the drawer is actually popped up, right? You can see back here, this one is a little bit popped up, but this one's normal, this one's pretty much normal, and this one's popped up. So we're going to pop that back down please, pop that place, pop that out, and we'll check the other side and see what that looks like. Okay, let's see what we've

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