This information helped me a lot. BTW, I'm thinking about building a new drewer. On my own. As I can see, I'm not the only victim of a clumsy carpenters which doesn't understand what they're doing. I even bought materials for this purpose. I will start to build this one as soon as quarantine ends.
Originally Posted by Deadlining. My 30 year old Snap On had a bad rail I gave up. Drilled out the rivet on the broken spring stop and made a new stop out of spring steel. You easily find some spring steel from MCMaster or just use some repurposed spring steel laying in your junk box. It was easier than I thought it would be. Tags for this Thread position , problem , rail , sliders , toolbox.
Pixman- cutting the retainers to size is certainly an option, but I wanted to see if there was a perhaps a misalignment of the slides or a wear condition that caused the scraping in the first place. I'm going to start measuring the slides I take off of the toolboxes, to see if maybe the H-shape of the center slide is bending due to wear perhaps the channels are opening into more of an X shape, allowing the retainers to scrape the drawer.
Nevertheless, I'll report back with my findings. That side 'latch' should hook into the small round hole by the front of the drawer. It should only come out of that hole when you are removing the drawer. Smokey Gold. Kennedy tool box slides Hello, I am new to the forum today and am looking for a Kennedy drawer slide just like the one you pictured.
I have contacted Kennedy and they will only sell a complete set of 14 slides. I am not going to buy a complete set at this time. Do you or does any of the other responders have an extra slide they would sell? If there is any out there let me the price, etc. My model is a Thanks, Smokey Gold.
Try chain saw bar lube that stuff is slicker than anything I have found. I lube all my door locks and door knob parts with this and it is unreal how easy the parts move.
I also use it on my mill and lathe. I even put it in my lawn mower engine and on the lawn mower wheel axles. This stuff is great for anything that slides. I'm late as always. On mine not a Kennedy I fully disassemble the slide and switched the left side for the right side.
It worked much better because the wear patterns were different. Hello, I am new to the forum today and am looking for a Kennedy drawer slide just like the one you pictured. But this is just due to the weight. Bearing rollers are working well. We have started to buy lista for all our tooling cabinets. I do not know how their roll arounds are but I bet nice. As far as I new Kennedy made the Craftsman boxes, I just sold my 20 year old red Craftsman roll away set and bought another one in Black.
I never have had a problem with them or the Kennedy box that my measuring tools are in. Have a Kennedy roll-around. Ball bearing drawers would be nice. Had to make a platform with heavy casters as the original hardware failed because of the weight. Old Bill. I have ten Kennedy roll arounds, two Macs and two Craftsman plus a bunch of top and middle boxes. I bought most of the Kennedys from their factory outlet store at below retail. I seldom roll mine, so the only wheel problem I had was when a lathe fell over and domino-ed one of the Kennedys.
That one needed new wheels. I have learned that ball bearing drawers are well worth the expense if you load them up with heavy tooling. Measuring equipment and such are fine with the plain drawer slides.
I have a bunch of commercial quality card file cabinets on caster bases that I built. They each have around pounds of tooling in them and can roll easily on concrete. I have a Kennedy mechanics box and it's nice. The casters aren't super nice, but they haven't folded under and the box is second hand. It has the BB drawer slides, which work well.
Waterloo has made the Crafstman boxes for ages, this is confirmed by the part number of the sears box prefix corresponding to waterloo. Kennedy will admit that them and waterloo have had a back and forth relationship for years, with neither being significantly better than the other. I can vouch that they are similarly constructed, but the kennedy low end boxes have beefier corners, which makes them stiffer. The really cheap craftsman boxes are really cheap and won't hold up to abuse, but fine for light use or storing light tools.
The Kennedy's on sale this month at rutlandtool. The Machinists chest are not made with ball-bearing slides, the drawers are too short. The roller cabinets that have the ball-bearing slides appear to never go on sale and they cost a lot more.
With standard slides you can be fine as long as you do not load the bottom drawer the largest one too heavy. In my opinion the Drawer chest and the 7-drawer cabinet make a good combination. If you get the 3-drawer add-on base B to go with it then it is better. You get more bang for the buck if you buy Craftsman. I am painting a real old one that my neighbor gave me from his collection. It was dropped by UPS and badly damaged. One more piece of info.
If you want some Kennedy touch-up paint they will gladly sell you a nail polish size bottle for I think that is a bit steep and it's my only complaint about Kennedy. With regard to expense I wouldn't put Waterloo in the same category as Craftsman.
I just got a Kennedy Maintenance Pro with ball bearing slides. The wheels are large and roll and swivel like a dream. I have a gripe, though.
The ball bearing slides glide so freely that the drawers will open up by themselves as you go around a corner. I'm not just talking about fast, tight corners. It happens on easy ones too.
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