Installing Accuride Full Extension Zinc Box Drawer Slides

1. Measure the height of the opening and the drawer.

2. Subtract the drawer height from the opening height.

3. Divide that by 2 to get you your even spacing for top and bottom.

4. Measure from the bottom of the opening to the center of the drawer slide.

5. Subtract the number from step 4 by the number you got in step 3.

6. Use that number measure up from the bottom of the drawer to mark the center line of your slide.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

The Wood Whisperer has a video online where he installs the drawer slides on his assembly table. Seemed to help for me.

http://thewoodwhisperer.com/episode-19-assembly-table-stand/

I’m lazy. I use blocks at whatever height to space up the carcass side of the slide and screw them in. I put the inner slides back in. Slide the drawer back in almost all the way. Use 1/8” shims to shim up the drawer (make them long enough to hold the drawer level.) Pull the inner slide out and mark the height. Take the drawer out and scribe it. Set the slide back the appropriate amount on the drawer side and screw it in. no math, no fail.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist

Well, thiis all helps demystify the install. I may have to give you 1/2 the credit for this project Gary. Thanks all for the info. —Brian

-- Brian, Virginia Beach

some one once told me it is easier to make the drawer first then make the cabinet .
so that is what i done when i made this work bench. mouted the slides to the drawers slid the walls up against them squared it up and ripped boads for spacing the slides on each side and came up

-- rf58, Illinois

This seems to be a great website. I’m just tryin to begin my journey into fine woodworking. I’ll definitely be asking questions. And looking forward, with much gratitude, to all the helpful comments. Thanks in advance.

I always mount the cabinet member (the pc that goes inside the cabinet) 1/4” above the bottom of the drawer opening. Then I draw a line 7/8” up from the bottom of the drawer, I use this line as the center to screw the pc that goes on the side of the drawer. When you put the drawer in, the bottom of the drawer will be 1/4” above the bottom of the opening. Makes the math easy.

Like you were talking a bout drawing a line 7/8” up from the bottom.
When you want to be exact——I like to use a v- grove router bit in my router and run a grove where I would draw a line that way your screws have a place to start exactly in line with the bottom.

-- rf58, Illinois

Good idea rf58. Might turn my table saw to a 45 and barely raise the blade to score my lines from now on. Thanks for the idea.

James101...Although GaryK offers a great piece of advice and have I miraculously ended up with those measurements for installing slides in the past, I like your technique because it involves a lot less math…thanks for the tip

-- Measure "at least" twice and cut once