Timeline for How to make bottom for a big drawer?
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| Jun 13, 2017 at 19:22 | comment | added | Graphus | @Kromster Thanks for the update. Glad it worked so well for you, 40kg is quite a bit of weight for it to support! | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 5:26 | comment | added | Kromster | Status report: one 8cm muntin worked just fine. The drawer came out strong enough to support ~40kg of tools is cases (load is spreaded evenly across the area). | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 7:03 | vote | accept | Kromster | ||
| Jun 8, 2017 at 8:43 | comment | added | Kromster | @CharlieKilian something made me think that 12-18mm thick materials don't work well in dados/grooves in 16mm walls. Looks like my assumption was wrong. Thanks for pointing that out! | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 19:07 | comment | added | Katie Kilian | I'm not sure what makes you think screwing it from below is a superior technique. Sliding it into a groove seems better to me. If it has a snug fit as Graphus suggests, the groove will support the bottom at every point along the drawer, as opposed to just supporting it at the places where you put screws or fasteners if you screw it from below. Also, the groove hides small imperfections in sizing the drawer bottom. As long as it still fits into the groove, you won't be able to tell if it was a fraction of a mm short, for example. So it will look cleaner, too. | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 7:56 | comment | added | Kromster | Thanks for your answer! So it seems that superior technique for such a large drawer would be to take 12-18mm sheet, preferrably plywood (because of smooth surface) and securely screw it from below instead of sliding into a groove? Could you please add about grooves depth and offset from the edge if hardboard is still used? Given my scrap contains only 3mm hardboard, what is the reasonable area it can hold in? (e.g. I can add 4 muntins) | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 7:45 | history | answered | Graphus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |