I am having trouble getting my overlay drawer box to alien correct to the face frame. I have a box I built with dovetails. Everything is sq. regardless of how I check it. Corner to corner with tape rule. Two foot sq and 12" combination. Cabinet is sq checked by same method. I am using Blumotion Tandem 563H slides and the orange fully adj. T51.190-0101 latch. I air nailed a pc of board to simulate the drawer face. (to be removed later) The left side of the drawer hits the face frame first and the right side is held off 1/8". I can take my finger tip and just push lightly and it goes in. To get it to close correctly I had to adj the drawer latch adj. all the way to the right. That makes the gap on the left side 1/8 wider than the left, but the drawer closes perfect. Once drawer front is installed the gap can not be seen. Tomorrow I think I will take the right slide screws out and use the long gated holes to move the slide in/out an 1/8 to see if that helps. Any tips that can be passed on will help me greatly.
This project is for the new bathroom cabinets I am building. When I put the center section in (sink section) I had the same problem with the two small drawers on each side of where the sink will go. I worked to no end in the shop and could not get the left side of each drawer to stop hitting first causing a small gap on both other sides. Once I had the cab in the bathroom I tried one more thing. I pulled the drawer out and removed the two screws on the left slide and closed the drawer and let it self align. It closed perfect. I put the screws in the new location ( Had to use the L brackets on the small drawers).They were 3/8 off. I fixed the other drawer by same method. I will have two drawer banks, one on each side of the center pc. On the drawer problem above I did not use the L bracket. I aligned the side partitions with the inside of the face frame. No need for the L bracket. I thought it would be a breeze to align the drawers with no L bracket. Boy was I wrong.
Anybody that has built a lot of drawers and installed them please make some suggestions. It would help me a lot. I have looked at many Youtube videos and it all looks so easy. No one ever addresses what problems can pop up.
Thanks
Johnny
This project is for the new bathroom cabinets I am building. When I put the center section in (sink section) I had the same problem with the two small drawers on each side of where the sink will go. I worked to no end in the shop and could not get the left side of each drawer to stop hitting first causing a small gap on both other sides. Once I had the cab in the bathroom I tried one more thing. I pulled the drawer out and removed the two screws on the left slide and closed the drawer and let it self align. It closed perfect. I put the screws in the new location ( Had to use the L brackets on the small drawers).They were 3/8 off. I fixed the other drawer by same method. I will have two drawer banks, one on each side of the center pc. On the drawer problem above I did not use the L bracket. I aligned the side partitions with the inside of the face frame. No need for the L bracket. I thought it would be a breeze to align the drawers with no L bracket. Boy was I wrong.
Anybody that has built a lot of drawers and installed them please make some suggestions. It would help me a lot. I have looked at many Youtube videos and it all looks so easy. No one ever addresses what problems can pop up.
Thanks
Johnny
