Mal,

I think that you'll have plenty to support the drawers. More important is a
good fit. You want the drawers to slide smoothly, but with a minimum of
excess movement. The trickie part is to plan enough room to allow for
expansion during damp seasons. Here where I live, I've seen items where
drawers work great in the winter, but won't even budge at all during the
summer when the humidity rises.

Doc

On Friday, April 18, 2014, Malcolm Thomas  wrote:

>
> Hello,
> AM building a set of drawers for my workbench ...my tool collection seems
> to be multiplying for some obscure reason :-)
>
> being inspired by the methodology depicted here..
> http://woodgears.ca/workb
ench/drawers.html
>
>
> I did plan to use 19mm x 19mm jarrah for the drawer slides, however i
> realise that once I have seated them 4-5mm into the upright, only 15mm or
> so will be left protruding to support the drawers.
>
> Is this enough ?  Perhaps i need to go up a notch to the 38 x 19mm ?
> This’ll allow me to seat them lower in the upright and giving me more slide
> for the drawers to sit on.
>
> Whats the opinion here ?
>
> This is the front drawer frame with the 19 x 19 slides clamped on….. look
> a bit small I think …
>
> htt
ps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37914238/wood/Slides%201.JPG
>
> htt
ps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37914238/wood/Slides%202.JPG
>
> if its any use the drawers will be 400mm wide by 500mm deep..
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Mal
> Oz
> (Perth to be more precise)
>
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