Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

LouLawrence wrote:
These

zigzagrv wrote:

LouLawrence wrote:
These

X2 Have had those in my MH since I got it. Never a failure.

Thanks. I've got that on my radar.

he likes early american, iam betting on a hasp and a 16 Penney nail

LouLawrence wrote:
These

X2 Have had those in my MH since I got it. Never a failure.

navegator wrote:
How do you plan on keeping the drawers closed when traveling?

We had the pantry door open on a very tight left uphill turn and the contents go flying out, after that I installed the drywall corner L strips and drilled holes to accept bungee cords, they are on for travelling and one side off for camping, all the drawers on ower unit need to lift up to open.

navegator

That's one of the things I haven't settled on a solution yet. I am still looking at options.

Bungees would be a cheap and easy option, but I haven't finalized anything yet.

Thanks for the post.

How do you plan on keeping the drawers closed when traveling?

We had the pantry door open on a very tight left uphill turn and the contents go flying out, after that I installed the drywall corner L strips and drilled holes to accept bungee cords, they are on for travelling and one side off for camping, all the drawers on ower unit need to lift up to open.

navegator

I haven't measured it yet, but our refrigerator in our house may require more effort to open than this drawer does.

On the other hand, how often do we have 25 lbs or so of weight in our drawers.

Most of the time, it will be far less, which will require less pull strength.

I'll have to check out a couple of other drawers.

Then I started pulling on the scale. The pulling weight did not change much during the length of the pull.







The drawer was about 5" from coming out, so it was "nearly" out as far as I wanted it to go.

3" is about the max that I am comfortable with, using this type of slide. There are other types of full extension wooden drawer slides, but for this design - no.

With the screws in the drawer, towards the back of the drawer, I made sure the scale was set at zero.

I figured that it's only a matter of time until the question comes up, "how hard is it to pull those drawers open with weight in them"?

Well, I am glad you asked.

This first picture I screwed up. I didn't realize that I had zoomed in too far to get the entire weight that I was weighing.

It is a box of Kreg screws, that is not quite full.

Amounted to 23.69 lbs.