How to Lube 'Quiet Glide Slides on Cman Boxes?

Bolster · Sep 26, 2010

Confession: I purchased my tool boxes long before I discovered GJ. Purchased some Cman quiet glide boxes. Don't have the money to upgrade, and some of the drawers are starting to push hard.

Should I lube the slides, and what should I use?

crankshaftdan II · Sep 26, 2010

I have an older waterloo box with the same guides-if dirty I use WD-40 to clean and than a liberal amount of Gunk Dry Lube w/ptfe-doesn't collect to much airborne dust and lasts for a year or so. Works for mine :headscrat

Sterff · Sep 26, 2010

On my old Cman box I use either WD40 or super lube.

http://www.super-lube.com/greases-ez-44.htm

tonydanzah · Sep 26, 2010

mink oil
....

danc333 · Sep 26, 2010

I use White lithium grease. I have both quite glide and some older friction slides. Its a little messy to apply but works really well in my opinion.

Davefr · Sep 26, 2010

SpiderGearsMan · Sep 27, 2010

wd40 is alcohol , dries out more than lubes

mrholeshot · Sep 27, 2010

Slide-out graphite spray

Arne73 · Sep 27, 2010

Owners 'manual' says to clean and oil, do not use grease.

WOPR · Sep 27, 2010

I used Tri FLow on my Lowe's Kobalt tool box and it did wonders.

senlow · Sep 27, 2010

Davefr said:

Yes, we have a winner. This stuff works great. It's a good lubricant, and it doesn't attract dirt like grease and oil do.

lauver · Sep 27, 2010

senlow,

I'm curious about your experience with the Dupont dry wax PTFE spray lube.

How long have you been using it on your drawer slides?

Do you have friction, ball bearing, or both types of slides?

How dirty is the work environment where your toolboxes are kept?

What are the major types of particulate contamination in your work environment (i.e. dirt, metal filings, paint dust, body filler dust, abrasive dust, etc)?

How humid is your work environment?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Dupont spray as a drawer slide lubricant?

Randy_che · Sep 27, 2010

SpiderGearsMan said:
wd40 is alcohol , dries out more than lubes

Sorry, this is junk information. WD-40 is not alcohol of any kind. It is light hydrocarbon liquid (Naptha range) and a heavier oil. It also has some surfactant in it. When the light HC evaporates, the oil is left behind. It's not a great lubricant in load bearing applications, but it's definitely not dry. It's easy to find the ingredients and percentages in the MSDS.

http://www.wd40company.com/partners/msds/usa/

As for my slides, I use any handy oil. Usually 3-in-1 or 30 wt. Nothing special required. I keep the flying dust to a minimum in my garage though. Sawing and grinding gets done in the driveway.

GTO · Sep 27, 2010

Randy_che said:
Sorry, this is junk information. WD-40 is not alcohol of any kind. It is light hydrocarbon liquid (Naptha range) and a heavier oil. It also has some surfactant in it. When the light HC evaporates, the oil is left behind. It's not a great lubricant in load bearing applications, but it's definitely not dry. It's easy to find the ingredients and percentages in the MSDS.

http://www.wd40company.com/partners/msds/usa/

As for my slides, I use any handy oil. Usually 3-in-1 or 30 wt. Nothing special required. I keep the flying dust to a minimum in my garage though. Sawing and grinding gets done in the driveway.

...and is a great SS cleaner too.

senlow · Sep 28, 2010

lauver said:
Senslow,

I'm curious about your experience with the Dupont dry wax PTFE spray lube.

How long have you been using it on your drawer slides?

Do you have friction, ball bearing, or both types of slides?

How dirty is the work environment where your toolboxes are kept?

What are the major types of particulate contamination in your work environment (i.e. dirt, metal filings, paint dust, body filler dust, abrasive dust, etc)?

How humid is your work environment?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Dupont spray as a drawer slide lubricant?

I've been using it for a couple of years.

I own mostly old school Mac boxes with a couple of older Craftsman boxes. All of those have friction slides. I also have a couple of Lista cabinets with ball bearing slides. The friction slides get the wax lube, and the ball bearings get light synthetic grease.

My boxes at work are in a fairly clean environment. The boxes in my home shop are exposed to whatever contaminents that my projects create - grinding dust from fabrication projects, paint and bondo dust from paint projects, and sometimes wood dust.

Living in Colorado, the humidity is low.

Strengths of Dupont spray wax:
It doesn't seem to attract dust and debris. It doesn't continually flow, so the lube stays where you put it.

Weaknesses:
Drawers slide more slowly in cold weather. I doubt if that would be much of a problem in Texas.

lauver · Sep 29, 2010

senlow said:
I've been using it for a couple of years.

I own mostly old school Mac boxes with a couple of older Craftsman boxes. All of those have friction slides. I also have a couple of Lista cabinets with ball bearing slides. The friction slides get the wax lube, and the ball bearings get light synthetic grease.

My boxes at work are in a fairly clean environment. The boxes in my home shop are exposed to whatever contaminents that my projects create - grinding dust from fabrication projects, paint and bondo dust from paint projects, and sometimes wood dust.

Living in Colorado, the humidity is low.

Strengths of Dupont spray wax:
It doesn't seem to attract dust and debris. It doesn't continually flow, so the lube stays where you put it.
Weaknesses:
Drawers slide more slowly in cold weather. I doubt if that would be much of a problem in Texas.

senlow,

Thanks for the reply. Very useful info. I'm going to give it a try as my garage is very dirty most of the time and full of gritty contaminants.

Very little cold weather here, but I enjoy it when we have it. And, I move slower too when it's cold. Shouldn't be a problem.

mkdive · Oct 4, 2010

+1 on the teflon spray. I use it about once a year on my quiet glide sliders. Of course I dont use it on the BB slides on my other boxes. The teflon spray works great!

Miter Wrench · Oct 4, 2010

Bolster said:
Confession: I purchased my tool boxes long before I discovered GJ. Purchased some Cman quiet glide boxes. Don't have the money to upgrade, and some of the drawers are starting to push hard.

Should I lube the slides, and what should I use?

I confess that I've got Quiet Glide as well and I'm glad I do. No shame, they work perfectly. I may try the teflon. But good old 3-in-1 works great.

alamerang · Oct 4, 2010

I have a quiet glide bottom cabinet and honestly its one of the smoothest slides if seen. Even smoother than my ball bearing boxes. Too bad you cant load up the drawers like the ball bearing ones but extremely smooth none the less. I usually spray a couple squirts of WD-40 in the slides every 6 months or so.

rsanter · Oct 4, 2010

teflon dry lube is great stuff
either that or use wax, yes like candle wax

bob

Bolster · Oct 4, 2010

I've been watching stores for the Teflon Dry Lube and haven't seen it for sale. Where are you guys finding it?

jeffk14 · Oct 4, 2010

Bolster said:
I've been watching stores for the Teflon Dry Lube and haven't seen it for sale. Where are you guys finding it?

Got mine at Lowes. About 4 or 5 bucks a can. Good stuff. :thumbup:

senlow · Oct 4, 2010

Bolster said:
I've been watching stores for the Teflon Dry Lube and haven't seen it for sale. Where are you guys finding it?

Ace Hardware.

How to Lube 'Quiet Glide Slides on Cman Boxes?

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Banned

MEMBER EMERITUS

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member