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Originally Posted by docsnavely
I built my setup with mostly 3/4" birch and probably very similar 400lb lock in/out sliders. It weighs about the same as your design after cutting out the void in the floor of the box. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't use such heavy duty slides. They added 50lbs to the overall weight. I would probably use a non-slider design, or a track system with locking latches to save weight.
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. My thoughts on the drawer slides is that they can make or break a system. Good slides (Accuride/Knape Vogt) that are in that "Heavy Duty" (300-500lbs) full extension category are expensive, then they get
really expensive to add the Lock-In/Lock-out functionality.
Once you get over the sticker shock, as you mentioned they are heavy. However, I'd rather work on finding other ways to shed some weight (ie extruded aluminum frame) in order to be able to cleanly operate a weighted down drawer. The 'tool' drawer in my 3rd gen that's using these slides normally has about 80-100lbs of tools/compressor gear in it, but slides in and out with very little effort. I tried some of the slides in that lower price point but was just never happy with how they operated.
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