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Drawer Slides and Drawer Mounts for your Kitchen Cabinets and Drawers
A very under looked part of kitchen cabinetry is the drawer sliders for your kitchen drawers. Finding the best drawer mounts are important based on your drawers use. Heavy duty uses require heavy duty slides. The best drawer mounts for heavy duty applications are side mount slides and side mount underside drawer slides provide relatively strong slides which are rated up to 100 pounds. Side mounted slides display the hardware on the sides of the drawer which makes the hardware externally visible. For lighter or medium duty drawers, center mount slides and undermount side slides are available. These types of drawers hide the hardware making them a good choice for seamless designs or for drawers with finger joints or dovetails. The most popular choice in most kitchens is the side mounted style of drawer slides. High quality ball bearing drawer slides can prevent jamming and keep the slides on their tracks for a longer lasting drawer slide. Installing drawer slides can be a moderately simple task or more elaborate based on which type of slide you choose to offer. Please use our helpful links below for drawer slide manufacturers, discount slides, and instructions on how to choose your slides or how to install your drawer slides whether they are side mounted, under mounted, or center mounted drawer sliders. Also check out Hinges, Knobs, Drawer Slides.



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Factors in Drawer Slide Selection
Selecting drawer slides may be more confusing than installing them. There are many types, and some overlap a bit. The easiest way is to figure out likely drawer weights, the drawer depth, and then the mounting needs. After that, check out available slides, such as light duty slides, medium duty slides, heavy duty slides, specialty slides.

Installing a Pull-Out Kitchen Shelf
This shallow drawer on full-extension slides eliminates the need to get down on your hands and knees to pick through the back of the cabinet in near darkness. Building and installing a retrofit pull-out shelf is actually a simple process, as This Old House master carpenter Norm Abram shows here.

Drawer-Slide Installation Tips
Having a problem installing your kitchen cabinet drawers or drawer slides? These cabinetmakers suggest lower-fuss ways to install drawer slides. Read some tips to help you with your installation process.

How to Fix a Cabinet Drawer Slide
Broken or damaged drawer slides have a way of reminding you over and over that they need to be repaired. In some cases, the problem is merely that one or more of the mounting screws on the slide has fallen out--you can repair this by replacing the screws. More commonly, the glides have become bent or broken. In this case, the easiest remedy is to replace the glides.

Fulterer USA - High Quality Drawer Slides - Heavy-duty Drawerslide Systems -  
For over 50 years Fulterer has been a world leader in drawer slide technology. We combine design innovation, the latest technology, and fine craftsmanship to produce the highest quality drawerslides available. We design and manufacture drawerslides that fit practically any application.
www.fultererusa.com/

Blum Drawer Systems - Drawers, high fronted pull-outs -  
We make drawer runners for any type of cabinetry: the kitchen, bath, bedroom or office. It doesn't matter whether drawers are fully loaded or empty, closed gently or with force – thanks to BLUMOTION, they are sure to close silently and effortlessly every time.
www.blum.com/us/en/01/40/index.php

Drawer Slides -  
Drawer slides for every cabinet application in single and full-extension versions: Integra metal sided drawer system, concealed undermount with soft closing, utility side mount slides, specialty slides for file drawers and pantries.
www.cabinetmart.com/slides.html

Accuride International Precision Drawer Slides -  
The world's largest manufacturer of precision ball bearing slides, Accuride provides drawer slides and specialty hardware for cabinetry, furniture, industrial, and electronic applications.
www.accuride.com/index2.php

Drawer Slides, Specialty Supplies, And Wholesale Cabinet Hardware -  
Looking for cabinet or kitchen hardware and accessories at wholesale prices? Specialty Supplies offers cabinet-makers and do-it-yourselfers alike with high quality drawer slides sold in pairs by the length of the slide, not the depth of the cabinet.
www.specialtysupplies.com/drawer-slides-c-65.html

KV In-Line Undermount Slide -  
KV In-Line Undermount Slide - The newest addition to the KV drawer slide offering. The KV In-Line Undermount Slide features a fully-integrated "Soft-Close" feature.
www.knapeandvogt.com/KV_In-Line_Undermount_Slide.html?page=products.1.23

Barnes Engineering Company drawer slides since 1963 -  
Barnes Engineering Company builds industrial quality chassis slides for numerous commercial, industrial, military, and medical slide applications. Our Slim-Track product line includes custom drawer slides, linear slides, drawer rails, electronic rack slides, EIA slides, slide rails, ball bearing slides, solid bearing slides, computer tracks, etc.
www.slimtrack.com/

A Drawer Slide for Every Application -  
Ovis carries a large selection of standard and specialty drawer slides for residential and commercial cabinets: epoxy coated drawer slides, undermount drawer slides, full extension ball bearing drawer slides - all available at wholesale prices.
www.ovisonline.com/Woodworking_Supplies/Drawer_Slides/drawer.htm


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