Neumade Slide Cabinet Project

[GoFast300zx]

With all the cool Lista, Vidmar, and scratch built small parts cabinets out there I definitely got the bug to make or find my own. It started when the wife bought me a nice 16 drawer steel Akro-Mils for Christmas this past year.

After awhile of searching craigslist and the like i found this Neumade metal slide cabinet(Made in the USA) that i just knew I could drill the spot welds out in the center sections and turn it into a mini parts cabinets. So I did just that!

This is what the cabinet started out looking like, I did clean all the tape and **** off the face on one drawer here though.
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I forgot to take a picture of what the drawers looked like inside before I drilled all the spot welds out and pulled the slide support sections out. I found this one online just to give everyone an idea.
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You can see some of the holes fully drilled while others are not all the way. This took too long trying to not drill all the way through the metal and just get the spot weld so I just started drilling straight through. Had to clean the end tabs up with a dremal as I didn’t want to drill through the face of each drawer.
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Cleaning all the tape off the drawers had to be one of the hardest parts to this job. I tried Goo Gone, acetone, mineral spirts, brake cleaner, and parts washer solvent nothing was removing this easily as it was so dried on there! Finally broke out the dremel with one of the white polishing wheels and that made quick work of everything, wish I would have done that sooner. Ruined a few wheels but at least the finish on the drawers were still intact and not ruined!
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I had one of the HF organizing boxes from awhile back that I decided to see how the trays fit in as the drawers are about 2" tall. They fit pretty well actually but I knew I had to get some Schaller bins so they are on order and should be arriving later today!
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Fully cleaned in all its glory
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Starting to fill all the drawers up!
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Hope you guys like it and thanks again for all the inspiration from everyone hope to share more in the future!

 

[Daddy B]

Been looking for something like this myself. You did an awesome job on it. Looks great!

 

[pcmeiners]

This deserves suckage, not necessarily the drawers, but the wife....she is a definite keeper. Drawers cleanup really nice.

"It started when the wife bought me a nice 16 drawer steel Akro-Mils for Christmas this past year"

 

[GoFast300zx]

This deserves suckage, not necessarily the drawers, but the wife....she is a definite keeper. Drawers cleanup really nice.

"It started when the wife bought me a nice 16 drawer steel Akro-Mils for Christmas this past year"

Yeah she is definitely a keeper! Before the wedding when we were trying to come up with money I even offered to sell the race car to fund everything. I can always get another car, but she put her foot down and told me she wouldn't even consider that option! Said I needed an outlet and she wanted to still ride around in the car!!!

Now to more pictures, the Schaller bins came in and I finally had a little time between TX2K17 prep to start throwing small parts into the bins.

Other random hardware
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Screws
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Random Z hardware, need to sort this better
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Nails I already had sorted
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Got some bins to fill!
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Now just need to spend time with the random hardware buckets I have and sort everything!

 

[rburke65]

That's a great looking cabinet. Live the color and the brush finish in the handles.

 

[cjbarbour19]

very good idea. I bought 5 of these cabinets a few years ago at a garage sale for $80. I didnt know what i wanted to do with them but for the price they looked like something i needed. Now i know what ill be doing with them. How was schallers web site for ordering?

 

[Squashfest81]

Curious on your Dremel goo cleanup. You just ran those little white buffing pads? Dry or with something?
Those drawers look amazing! Well done.

 

[GoFast300zx]

very good idea. I bought 5 of these cabinets a few years ago at a garage sale for $80. I didnt know what i wanted to do with them but for the price they looked like something i needed. Now i know what ill be doing with them. How was schallers web site for ordering?

The Schallers website was great for ordering, if I remember correctly I ordered them a little before noon and they were shipped out that day on just normal shipping. One thing I did note though is their "trial" sets that have one of each size for 1", 2", and 3" tall boxes cost more then putting each box by themselves in the cart. I ended up ordering at least one of each of their 1" and 2" boxes just to try out and use for various other things so if you end up doing that I would add them individually.

Also the new drawer builder page looks to be super easy to order a bunch of different sizes quickly now. I know when I ordered this wasn't an option.

Curious on your Dremel goo cleanup. You just ran those little white buffing pads? Dry or with something?
Those drawers look amazing! Well done.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

As for the Dremel pads I just ran the white pads dry, I only have a 2 speed Dremel and noticed that the slow speed works good for most of the cleanup. Only needed to switch to high speed for a few tough areas. The pad did start breaking up faster when at the high speed setting almost seemed to melt and absorb the goo at high speed where low speed almost "friction sanded" it off. The pad would stay mostly white at low speed and it did help if I let the wheel cool a little in between use, a few seconds usually worked, just something to prevent from going non stop and heating the goo up causing it to melt into the pad.