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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:46 pm
by troopy94
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
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:02 pm
by chikoroll_
depends on your personal ability
though there's not much to screw up with plywood, it's just straight cuts, glue screws and squares.....
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:09 pm
by DaveS3
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:53 pm
by GUJohnno
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
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:38 pm
by alien
this is the stuff you wanna be using to build lightweight, strong, steel drawers!
http://www.ayrescom.com/
i love that stuff.