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Review on 🦊 Shop Fox D3028: A Heavy-Duty 100 Pound Capacity Powerhouse by Rodney Gonzalez

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Nothing worse than anything I've seen and at a great price.

I have to agree that these are quality drawer slides at a great price: they are solidly built, run smoothly and cost about 1/4 less than comparable items I could find locally. . If you've installed these slides before, no further instructions are needed, other than they require 1/2" clearance between the inside of the cabinet and the outside of the drawer on each side (1" clearance total). ). Also, if you've ever installed these types of rails, you know that the tolerances are pretty tight. These guides give you a bit of wiggle room: I reckon you can have an overall clearance of up to 1-1/16" or a little more and they'll still work just fine. I made several boxes and ended up getting a box. Where the overall clearance was about 15/16 inches and the drawer movement was too tight I had to redo the drawer. but that was my fault. Just remember that you want your drawer sides to be parallel to each other and to the inside of the cabinet. So when you build your own drawers you have to be pretty precise. If you can't build to this standard, you can choose a different slide that's more forgiving. One more thing, you have to push the drawer hard to close the last 1/4 inch, which is fine. in a fixed closet, but on something freestanding, like the bedside tables I've collected, the force I had to use caused the bedside table to tip backwards a bit. I solved this by removing the rubber bumpers at the back of the rails and sanding just enough force to close securely with less effort. You can even remove the bumpers completely from the mounts and the rails will work just fine, they have to just not a friction lock.

Pros
  • Cabinet Hardware
Cons
  • Slightly torn