kristaology wrote:
Jeremiah worked on the sliding mechanism for the galley cooler. We went with a rather large 9-day cooler that had some difficulties fitting under the counter height we needed. So to put the sliding channels on the floor with a board on top of those wasn't working.
Jeremiah came up with a neat idea, but he ran into a little more work than I think he was expecting. He cut channels in the 1/2" floor ply to fit the slide bars down into. Then he slid some 3/4" ply pieces underneath the floor to screw the slide bars into, creating a countersunk slide mechanism.
He cut a 1/2" piece of ply for support on top.
We are having a little trouble getting it to slide well, and are worried about it being able to handle the weight of our cooler. The slides are rated for 100lbs, but there is a lot of resistance when it is extended. We may end up putting a support chain from the wall to the slide board to help pull up the slides when they are extended.
Any advice is welcome.
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Yours could be a slide I haven't seen previously, but those look like slides designed for side-mounting on a drawer. If so, they're giving you grief as they weren't designed to run/support weight horizontally. Google "undermount drawer slides" and you'll see the difference.