Drawer Rails/Slides, an Idea!

I was given a “dresser” with 10 drawers in it. I decided to paint the dresser and to my surprise when I removed the drawers, I found a rather unique (I have not seen this setup before, so its unique to me) setup used for the Rails/Slides that the drawers ride along when pulled out and pushed back in.
In the Image above (Image 1) I deliberately kept the image large to give you a good view of the slides in the dresser.

I have heard them called rails, runners and on the Internet with Google they are often called slides.

Image 2 shows us a closeup of this setup.
At each end of each rail is a slot and the screw fits into the slot.

While the rails are being adjsuted so that the drawer slides along them perfectly the rails can be (in this situaiton) slid up or down until jsut rioght by trial and error.

Once the rail is perfect the screw can be tightened. In this case a nail is also driven in to the rail to hold it in place. But my guess is that the nail sticks out enough so that it can be removed to allow future adjustments of the rails position and then the nail is hammered back in to place.

The drawers ride on top of the rails, and the nails don’t come in to contact with the mails that are sticking out at all.

The slots in the rails are at both ends, but it looks like only the front rail is adjusted, but I could be wrong. It may just look that way.

Anyway I thought that I would share this so anyone designing, repairing or making a dresser can possibly use this idea in their own designs or repairs.

Tip:
By the way, if the drawers, any drawers are “sticking”, getting stuck and so on on wooden rails, take the drawers out and use a candle or a block of wax and rub it along the rails or on the drawer where the rails touch the rails.. With the wax on the rails the drawers will run along smoothly.

All the best from
James Martin Sandbrook.
6-1-2022.

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