this is my lab table that i built recently for this experiment set up and i thought it'd
be nice to have a drawer underneath so i could keep some of the accessories there the drawer
design is going to be something like this and i'll use those scraps of wood for it
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then sanding off some of the dirt
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the corners go together with box joints like this but for this part i want a box joint
in the middle and i can't do that with the box joint jig so i'm going to use my slot
mortiser
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that's the frame for the drawer just got to glue it up now
some people like to measure the diagonals to make sure they're the same and it's square
i just like to clamp a square to it and then i know it's square
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so
i sanded the joints flush and varnished it off camera now i'm gonna mount it underneath
this table and for that i figure wooden drawer slides will be easier and cheaper and what
i'll try to do is make these things slide in a channel in these thicker parts and that'll
be my wooden slide [Music] [Applause]
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now i just need some kind of drawer pull and i thought
maybe instead of on the front i can just screw something on the bottom to gravity
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[Music] now this still doesn't slide as smooth as i'd like it did so it's time to wax those
slides i'm just rubbing it with an old candle to wax it
now one thing i like to do is to melt it in with the heat gun a little bit and then wax
it again
and with a little bit of mineral around that it really slides easily okay i cheated a little
bit that was at half speed and now i can get these bits off the table and that wasn't the
first time i did something like that but uh 22 years ago when we moved offices at rim
or blackberry my new desk didn't have a drawer so i made this drawer to attach to the bottom
of the desk slab with just two rails like that and i kept moving that from office to
office as we kept moving around and when i left i took it home and put on the bottom
of this workbench
and wooden slides like this aren't ideal for really heavy things but i can put a fair bit
of weight on there and it still slides pretty good