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Install Drawer Slides

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What happens here

Before installing the drawer slides, glue 1/4 inch and 3/8 inch wood strips to the inner side panels of the vanity carcass. These strips create the necessary offset for the drawer slides and ensure proper spacing. Once the strips are secure, mount the full-extension ball-bearing drawer slides to these strips within the vanity openings, ensuring they are level and parallel. Then, attach the corresponding parts of the drawer slides to the assembled drawer boxes. While Euro-style slides were initially considered for cost savings, ball-bearing slides are recommended for smoother operation and better control, even if they are more expensive. This step requires precise alignment for optimal drawer function.

Goal: Affix wood strips to the vanity's side panels for proper drawer slide alignment, then install full-extension ball-bearing drawer slides to both the cabinet and the drawer boxes.

Tools and materials

  • Drill/Driver
  • Level
  • Screws
  • Wood Clamps
  • Wood Glue
  • Wood Strips

What they say

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I'm getting ready to start installing the drawer slides here's the thing like I said they're half an inch thick so we made the boxes a full inch uh smaller or narrower uh the thing is because the face frame there's this gap on the sides some of them mostly it's like 38 of an inch just when it's centered but some other parts is close to about a quarter like this transition here so for the quarter I'm just using a/ Quin strip that I'm gluing to the side of the thing and then the rails will attach to it and on the other side I'll use 38 now you could prevent this because uh you can buy these slides that actually extend out and there's little mounting brackets that go in the end so this would essentially just sit there and that would go all the way across and plug in I decid not to do it because it's a 27 maybe 25 in Long vanity so there's both ways to do it so you can just think ahead all right for installing the drawers I'm going with these Euro slides um I didn't go with the ball bearing fancy stuff mostly because I wanted to find ways to save a little bit of money like I think one of these is like 20 bucks and one of these that I bought it's like seven so saving a lot of money uh uh we got the slides that go underneath the drawers and then these are the receivers on the sides going to set them up Mount them and then get all these suckers installed hey you're probably noticing my new t-shirt Mr build it Peace and Freedom it's a support for the victims in Ukraine last month we sent over about 1,500 bucks in t-shirt sales 100% of the pro are going straight to the people who need it over there IR is Ukrainian we want to send as many uh things that we can do to help the people out there snag yourselves a Mr B merch help support the people they need the link will be in the description below go check it out now let's throw these drawers in hey real quick this is me in the future of this video uh you see me installing these slides they suck I decided to throw them all away unfortunately after I already installed them all reason why is because our draw frames are recessed inside the gaps have to be perfect and with these well there's too much of wiggle room and sometimes it kept catching on it so you almost have to adjust it I hated it so I decided to throw these out and buy these drawer slice the ball bearing ones yes they're more expensive but it allows it for us to have perfect control as the drawer is closed yes I took a $100 loss but at least I'm extremely…

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