drawer slide advice needed

The cabinet/box/carcass depth decides the slide depth. Using a longer slide on a shorter drawer will bring more drawer out if it isn’t a full extension slide.

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You can get 3- 16” rips out of a 4×8 so if you have the space in the closet, it doesn’t cost any more in material to use 16” for your sides.
I would probably make the drawers 15 3/4” deep.

It would be worth it to me.

If you have the room, I would make the cabinet deeper to allow for 16” slides. 14” is not very deep for a drawer anyway.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

You’ve run into an old “problem”. Hardware mfg.s make stuff that “most everyone” has adopted.

Most good catalogs give you the spec.s. Consequently, as I learned along time ago, you need to know your hardware before you start designing. Then you design based on the hardware you plan to use. (the object being you can change YOUR stuff, but, not the mfg.s stuff.)

Had you known slides come in even increments, you would have designed them to fit from the start. (of course cabinets come in 3” increments, so you have to learn to mix and match.)

I would make the drawer longer than the slide. You can use the 14” slides….they simply won’t pull completely out. But, chances are you’d be able to access the last inch easily anyway. AND i would probably make them deeper (16”). No real effort AND more storage is better. (as soon as I make storage I wish I had made it more deeper, more bigger, more longer….’cause I always have more stuff to put in it.)

The goal is——-More Storage for More Tools!

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