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Pull Out Shelves in Shop Pantry
(lemmy.world)
I have my old kitchen pantry in the shop for general storage. It's 24" wide and 24" deep which made reaching for things in the back of the shelf a real hassle. Not to mention making it hard to see back there.
So I made three pull out shelves where three fixed shelves were. 1/2" sides with a 1/4" bottom panel. I didn't have any thin plywood so I actually glued up the three panels from scrap - this was a great way to use up those "shorts" you can't bear to discard!
Great point. The drawer width was taken on a story stick, not numerically. I first made I side spacer blocks and then made a sandwich on the old shelf with a spacer block and a 1" block (each slide takes up 1/2") and then marked off the gap on a stick.
Observant folks might notice that I made the drawers sideways. Normally the rabbeted piece is on the side to use the mechanical advantage of the joint. But then measuring the length of the front/back pieces also involves the joint. I wanted make this task as easy as possible so I used the full length, rabbeted pieces on the front & back.