storage drawers for 4x4 wood v steel

Post by **troopy94** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:46 pm

Being a chippy i made my drawers from 12mm ply and glued and screwed all joins and then reinforced them with some 50x50 aluminium angle on all corners.They have survived 6 years of abuse carrying around 40kg in each drawer and for runners i used industrial drawer runners i got from the local cabinet makers

Post by **chikoroll_** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:02 pm

depends on your personal ability

though there's not much to screw up with plywood, it's just straight cuts, glue screws and squares.....

Post by **DaveS3** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:09 pm

Having used the cubelock, I wouldn't use it again.

I would use steel & ply for draws.

The cubelock flexes and creaks even when well braced.

Cheer
Dave.

Post by **GUJohnno** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:53 pm

I haven't had an issue with flexing and creaking, but I wouldn't use it next time either.

I find the way I used to make them with the ply glued and nailed and laquered, that they are more than strong enough and you can be more flexable in the design.
Too much room is lost with the cube lock IMO

Post by **alien** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:38 pm

this is the stuff you wanna be using to build lightweight, strong, steel drawers!

http://www.ayrescom.com/

i love that stuff.

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