I am so grateful for this high quality presentation. Great information and I didn’t miss watching someone drilling a bunch of holes and making a bunch of repeated cuts. Just good advice, carefully prepared and delivered. Great job! If you have more like this, I will have lost another day to RU-vid.
You can use handles that stick out, if you just make sure that your grooves stop a bit short so that you can't open the doors to the point that the handles hit.
Some interesting tips there Andreas. In the furniture trade even the big manufacturers use a little paste wax or candle wax on friction surfaces ie Drawer sides or sliding door runners it makes a huge difference and impedes premature wear on those surfaces. Keep safe and warm over there we are expecting another bitter cold week.Kind Regards Stuart Bell from UK👍
Thanks for that tip Stuart. Over here, the cold is only in the north. We’re here in the south of Germany which is not supposed to become so cold this week.
In your intro you mention some hardware that can be used. What is the name of that? I have some pre-existing cabinets without door, but want to add sliding doors. Any suggestions on this?
Hello. I am putting together a bookshelf that has a sliding door with a door track. The manual isn't very good and there are no videos of this model online. Does the door track mechanism (the plastic strip with the indention for the door) need to be flush with the bottom of the bookshelf? They aren't fitting very well so I am wondering if I need to hammer in or what I need to do.
Good tips. Something else that works for helping sliding is soap and wax. The soap would be a bar soap, the (old fashioned kind), just rub real good on the bottom of the door. Use a little wax (bee's wax or even candle wax) in the bottom groove. This will also help keep the dust out.
Sehr interessantes Video! Danke dafür. Habe Anfang des Jahres vor der selben Herausforderung gestanden, um kleine Schiebetüren in meinen Schreibtisch einbauen zu können. Hast du das alles ausprobiert oder gibt es eine Quelle? Bisher bist du der einzige der das so genau erklärt. VG Flo
Eine konkrete Quelle habe ich nicht, andere Ansätze geschaut, überlegt, vor einigen Jahren schon mal einen Schiebetürenschrank gebaut und nun die Erfahrung umgesetzt.
Girlfriend bought a second hand cabinet. The doors are too small/the grooves are too deep and they just fall out of the grooves. Any suggestions on how to rectify this?
Place strips of paper or cardboard in the bottom groove; stack them until the door doesn’t fall out anymore. Then you can measure how high the door needs to be lifted to not fall out. If it’s only a millimeter or two, use gliding tape and stick it in the bottom groove, if necessary, stak two or three layers to make that groove shallower and keep the door from falling out. If it’s more than just a few millimeters, use a thin strip of wood and place it in the bottom groove
Hi Andreas, I just became a subscriber and have watched your videos on sliding doors. I don’t believe I heard specific mention of it and my apologies if it was answered elsewhere in comments, but my question is regarding the placement of the grooves. More specifically, what is the distance from the cabinet frame to that first inner groove? In other words, how far out is the inner edge of the first groove (from the cabinet’s side panels) so that the door will not rub the sides, nor leave a space that is too large? Thanks in advance!
Welcome to the channel! If I understand you correctly, your question is answered at 6:08 in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9N7LQykhDjA.html
Hi Mitzi, thanks for caring - all is well. These last months have, again, been very busy at school - Covid created lots of dynamics which needed to be taken care of. Now the summer holidays have started and I can take a breath and get some shop time in. Hope you’re well in South Africa? The news from there has been worrying lately …
Hi, could you tell me the model of drill press (drill holder) you use in the video please. I need a pretty accurate one and see this kind in other videos and have not found its make.
Hi, do you know of any companies that sell those inserts for the running track? I tried looking but could not find any, perhaps I am not typing the correct words :)
Great tips. I was rather looking forward to seeing your Mongolian pets in their home (at the end of the video). Maybe at some time in the future you will make a video about these creatures?
They’ve turned out to be quite elusive, honestly. They’re supposed to be active both during the day and the night but ours seem to be night owls and are hardly ever seen during the day. So filming them is hard 😉
