Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Ah, hello. Sorry for the delay. Here's tonight's update.

As I am getting ready for either shelves or drawers in the back corner of the bath area, I made a tool to help with the locating of those shelves/drawers.

I am leaning towards drawers. Since the holes are about 19" wide and about 26" deep, I think it would be awkward to try to get to the rear of a shelf. Having a drawer would allow access to the rear of the area, and I figure, much more convenient.

With that in mind, I make a wooden square to help locate the slides on the sides.

All I need to do is clamp it fast, or just add a temporary screw to hold it in place until either marked or installed.

Ah, yes. Another day with some family. Good times.... :)

Here you can see that the end of it sticks out about 1/4". That means I'll have to make my sliding board accordingly to miss the end of the latch.

I looked at possibly cutting off the end of the latch, but it looks like it will be very difficult to open and close if I do that. So, my best bet is to leave the latches alone, and modify the sliding board.







This will be a wonderful place to use a version of the above slide mechanism to hold the board from moving around when opening and closing the window cover.

See - there really is a method to my madness... Lol..

As you can see here - the clamps that hold the window closed, are not flush with the inside of the back wall.

As you know, I am working around the rear area of the interior, in the bath area. Sometimes, little things can escape your view, when your mind is concentrated on something else.

Such is the case here. The rear window that I installed is an emergency exit window, and I also will be using it for ventilation at times.

You may remember that I am also adding a sliding cover for the window back there.

This will slide in from the right side, and cover the window, and therein lies the beginning of "trouble". Lol.

twichers wrote:
I like that drawer technique... simple and effective.

I actually works quite well. As long as the components are sized correctly for the weight being used, it will hold up for a long time.

I like that drawer technique... simple and effective.

Should have an update tomorrow night! :)

Here is the wax I use for this.







Like I said, it's not good for every situation, but it works well in some applications.

Here's a pic of one of them in use that I built for my brother's kitchen cabinets years ago.







The left side is labeled, "Maple". That is the side of the drawer with a tapered groove cut into it.

The male piece, as you can see, is of plywood, and also tapered.

The piece of Oak on the right, is the front face of the cabinet.

What I did was NOT apply any finish on the slide mechanism. I did, however, give it a light sanding to make sure things were smooth.

Second, I coated all of this with Minwax Paste Finishing Wax.

Here is what happens. The wax works it way into the wood. After I built these, and waxed them initially, he only had to wax them one additional time, and they have been using them for over 30 years.

They slide in and out with ease, and noise free.

One of his grandkids shows up, pulls the drawers out part way, and climbs up onto the counter. Grandkid weighs about 50 lbs or so.