Drawer Slides upgrade

[DaVincisGarage]

Does anyone know definativley that if i changed my socket drawer slide to the heaviest duty ball bearing ones i can find it will stop the sloppiness and side to side play it has?

I am just trying to figure out if i should invest 3k on a box or if i can get away with the international box for 1300 and just spend like 200 on slides to stiffen that one large socket drawer up..

Does anyone know what im talking about when you open the drawer and theres that play in it. Like it wants to open crooked.. But when you open an expensive box there absolutley zero play and it open smooth?

It seems that all the boxes are using roughly the same sheet metal size . I dont think thicknes of the drawer is the main factor so im thinking its the slides.

Plz let me know if anyone has any ideas... thanx!

 

[Wamsutta]

There's a little bit of side to side movement even on my SO box. What you're looking for is only going to be found on an industrial type box like Lista or Stanley Vidmar. Those boxes are made to withstand 50 brake rotors in one drawer.

 

[DaVincisGarage]

Lol! Yea true. Im going to hunt around and create some kinda toolbox hack. Theres got to be a way to get some nice solid drawer motion

 

[Shehzada]

Wow.....i thought Snap-on was the Cadillac of tool boxes but now just learned something.

 

[ez-duzit]

It should be a very simple matter to reduce side play by installing a pair of PTFE or UHMW blocks sized to fit.

 

[Wamsutta]

Wow.....i thought Snap-on was the Cadillac of tool boxes but now just learned something.

They've lightened them up quite a bit. The KR1000 and the rest of the boxes in the 1990 catalog were the last of the best. Sometime around 1990-1992 when they came out with the KRL series, they started using a lot of 18 gage steel.

 

[catron44]

Does anyone know definativley that if i changed my socket drawer slide to the heaviest duty ball bearing ones i can find it will stop the sloppiness and side to side play it has?

I am just trying to figure out if i should invest 3k on a box or if i can get away with the international box for 1300 and just spend like 200 on slides to stiffen that one large socket drawer up..

Does anyone know what im talking about when you open the drawer and theres that play in it. Like it wants to open crooked.. But when you open an expensive box there absolutley zero play and it open smooth?

It seems that all the boxes are using roughly the same sheet metal size . I dont think thicknes of the drawer is the main factor so im thinking its the slides.

Plz let me know if anyone has any ideas... thanx!

Not sure what size you're looking for but accuride has a great website and they make some heavy duty slides.

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[DaVincisGarage]

It should be a very simple matter to reduce side play by installing a pair of PTFE or UHMW blocks sized to fit.

I will look into that method aswell

 

[DaVincisGarage]

Not sure what size you're looking for but accuride has a great website and they make some heavy duty slides.

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Yea i seen the 7950's rated 350lbs per pair. Theyr 87.99 cdn on this website i found i think i will give that a shot. I hope this improves the drawer that would be sick!