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Forum topic by MarshallD | posted 04-28-2012 03:49 AM | 4347 views | 0 times favorited | 19 replies | ![]() |
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04-28-2012 03:49 AM |
I am in the process of finishing up a entertaiment center that I have been building for the past few weeks now. I ahve made both the left and the right tower and am working on the center tv stand/component storage/DVD storage drawer and I seem to have run into somewhat of a problem. I modified the center section to accomodate a tv up to 65” wide thus making the drawer about 62” wide. The depth of the center section is 15” & the drwaer will be about 6” high BTW. I thought I was just going to be able to use a normal heavy-duty full extension drawer slide that i use on all my other things I build that have drawers but several retailers and manufactures as well have cautioned me that the drawer will have excessive racking due to the width. Please help as i am at a standstill!!! Heres the entertainment center design i’m going off of |
19 replies so far
#1 posted 04-28-2012 04:12 AM |
The drawer won’t rack if you glue and nail the bottom – The slides may rack however if you don’t carefully pull out Another way to do it is make the wide front a drop-front |
#2 posted 04-28-2012 04:21 AM |
I make my drawers out of 1/2” birch and my bottoms out of 1/4” pine that’s dado’s into the sides. The entertainment center is made out if American Elm and the drawer front I have glued up is bowed a little now and would rather stick to one large drawer. |
#3 posted 04-28-2012 04:22 AM |
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#4 posted 04-28-2012 04:37 AM |
Is there something in particular I’m supposed to be looking for on that website? |
#5 posted 04-28-2012 04:44 AM |
Suit y’self. |
#6 posted 04-29-2012 01:33 AM |
or you could change the design to two draws. -- Fred, Springfield, Ma |
#7 posted 04-29-2012 01:51 AM |
I think Loren gives good advice with using a 1/2” bottom. We are currently doing a large closet area which will have large 40” wide drawers. I expect some racking but do not think it will be that bad. Like already mentioned, the drawer of that width will need to be pulled out with two hands and care will be required when using the drawers. I did reinforce our larger drawers with 1/2” baltic underneath the drawer. Also placing small triangle ply brackets on the top side of the drawer should further strengthen the drawer. -- . |
#8 posted 04-29-2012 02:06 AM |
Blum motion/tandem would be first choice, they also come in a “heavy duty” -- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso |
#9 posted 04-29-2012 02:29 AM |
the unit is for a lat screen TV, so I assume the piece wont be much deeper then 16”, there for the drawer will be between 12 and 14” deep. Taking the front and back of the drawer leaves a span of approx., 12 to 14”, so I would not be concerned about using 1/4” plywood -- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso |
#10 posted 04-29-2012 03:11 AM |
There’s a good reason to go with 1/2” for a bottom in this sort 1. You can rabbet the bottom of the bottom and then glue it 2. You can shoot nails into the drawer sides with a 1/2” bottom Ive done drawers lots of ways but in this case I would probably |
#11 posted 04-29-2012 03:19 AM |
Ooooookey dokey me bad, I forgot that loren has many many decades more experience then I -- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso |
#12 posted 04-29-2012 03:45 AM |
Sarcasm wasn’t called for, dude. |
#13 posted 04-29-2012 04:11 AM |
After doing searching for most of the day I have discovered a ‘rack and pinion’ slide system that actually connects both sides of the drawer together and can accommodate a drawer up to 60 1/2” wide and a 200lb load rating. It also allows you to pull on the far side or center of the drawer to open it and i do have a 3yr old as well as a wife who have put all my woodworking to the extreme test. Being that the hardware is 1” wide on each side and my opening is 63” that should work out greatly. Also I’m not interested in making it into 2 drawers as that would have taken away from the look I’m wanting in the end. And I have made all my drawers I have ever made out of 1/2” birch and 1/4” bottoms and the bottom panel is never even glued in but has a very tight fit. I shall try my trusted method with this drawer and see. In the end 1/4” pine going into grooves on all 4 sides will have hardly and flex in a drawer that’s only going to be about 14” deep and support about 20lbs max. Thanks http://www.schockmetal.com/slide.php?slide_name=Rack+and+Pinion+Drawer+System |
#14 posted 04-29-2012 01:32 PM |
Gotta love Google… |
#15 posted 04-29-2012 02:00 PM |
I found some 36” deep 100 lb drawer slides on Amazon that I used for a 50” wide drawer on a platform bed. It works great and has no binding at all. -- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. |
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