I've been (and still am) a happy Lista owner. I've not once regretted spending the cash that put Lista cabinets in my Garage. But tonight I did something stupid and for about an hour I thought I might have to cut one of my cabinets open.
Did you ever close a drawer, and at the very end of the travel it snags a bit because something in the drawer is sticking up? When that happened, did you ever think "Fk it" and push harder? Well if you are pushing a Lista drawer, DON"T DO THAT! I did tonight, but when the drawer closed, it didn't sound quite like I remembered. Then I tried to open the drawer and it wouldn't budge. I then tried another drawer. It too was locked. ALL THE DRAWERS WERE LOCKED! Uh Oh.
I suspected that the interlock that prevents you from opening more than one drawer at a time was wedged by whatever stuff was in the drawer I forced. I was now locked out of my box. The key didn't help (it was already unlocked). No amount of pushing, pulling, or shaking any drawer did any good.
After an hour of cursing. I'm thinking, "No, I CAN"T cut into my Lista box". I then had the idea to pull drawers out of another cabinet and take a look at the interlock mechanism I was up against. It's too hard to describe it in any useful way in text, but if you have Lista boxes and fiddle with the bar at the back to see how it stops and releases drawers, you can see how a flat bar pushed in a certain way might release the interlock. I then cut about 5 feet of 1"x1/8" flat HRS stock and made a Lista "Slim Jim". I slid it between two drawers, poked around the back to find the right spot, pushed to the left, AND IT WORKED! I could open a drawer! HALLELUJA!
The thing that jammed everything was just a thick plastic bag with some wires in it. Murphy skillfully guided it to the absolute worst spot.
Did you ever close a drawer, and at the very end of the travel it snags a bit because something in the drawer is sticking up? When that happened, did you ever think "Fk it" and push harder? Well if you are pushing a Lista drawer, DON"T DO THAT! I did tonight, but when the drawer closed, it didn't sound quite like I remembered. Then I tried to open the drawer and it wouldn't budge. I then tried another drawer. It too was locked. ALL THE DRAWERS WERE LOCKED! Uh Oh.
I suspected that the interlock that prevents you from opening more than one drawer at a time was wedged by whatever stuff was in the drawer I forced. I was now locked out of my box. The key didn't help (it was already unlocked). No amount of pushing, pulling, or shaking any drawer did any good.
After an hour of cursing. I'm thinking, "No, I CAN"T cut into my Lista box". I then had the idea to pull drawers out of another cabinet and take a look at the interlock mechanism I was up against. It's too hard to describe it in any useful way in text, but if you have Lista boxes and fiddle with the bar at the back to see how it stops and releases drawers, you can see how a flat bar pushed in a certain way might release the interlock. I then cut about 5 feet of 1"x1/8" flat HRS stock and made a Lista "Slim Jim". I slid it between two drawers, poked around the back to find the right spot, pushed to the left, AND IT WORKED! I could open a drawer! HALLELUJA!
The thing that jammed everything was just a thick plastic bag with some wires in it. Murphy skillfully guided it to the absolute worst spot.
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