In this video I show how I installed slides in a kitchen base cabinet in order to improve organization. The manufacturer video showed installing in a frameless cabinet, but no video for face frame, so I thought I'd do a video. This might not be the best way, the right way, the way you'd do it, etc, it just happens to be the way I did it, and it seems to have worked.
Many of these slide installation videos concentrated on wood working (making the boxes). This video does NOT concentrate on wood working. Mine is a very simple design: the drawer (box), is just a rectangle of 3/4 plywood, and the sides are 3.5 x 1/2 leftovers from an earlier project, glued and pinned. Everything does need to be precise and square for the slides to work right, so the video shows some of the techniques that I used to get the slides installed precisely. Note that I'm installing inside a factory base cabinet that I presumed was square; if you have non-factory cabinets, you really can't make some of the assumptions I made.
On the non-hinge side, I installed directly against the face frame, and in the back, used a back bracket. On the hinge side, I installed against blocks, without the back bracket. You wouldn't need the back brackets, but I'd say it's slightly quicker than spacer blocks.
My narration was supposed to have a comment about my design leaving too much space on the hinge side; I could have been 1/4 or so wider without any interference. If I had to do this again, I might install the right slide right over the hinge, and make it so I didn't need spacer blocks, but instead use back brackets.
I bought 10 sets of these slides, so by the time the last set is installed, I'll know what I'm doing, LOL!
24 сен 2023
