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Mechanical drawer slides work very well. Nobody could ever complain about their
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function, but many of them don't look that great, and that's because you can
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see them on the outside face of the sides of the drawers. As soon as you open
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up the drawers, there they are, these metal things, and that doesn't exactly
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fit with the traditional styling of base frame cabinets. That's why I like this
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style of drawer slide. It's called the quadro drawer slide, and although it
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mounts on the inside of the cabinet, and it's fully visible if you were inside
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the cabinet, the rest of it, the sliding portion, fits underneath the drawer, so
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that when you open the drawer, you don't see anything. You just see the drawer
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side coming out. This is all hidden. The drawer side goes over top of it, and it
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does a wonderful job, works very well, very solid. So let's go and take a look
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and see how they work in real life. So here's the drawer slide installed. It's
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fastened to this drawer spacer strip that brings the surface out pretty much
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flush with the inside face of the face frame, and this is the part that the
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drawer rests on, and this tab fits into the side, into a hole drilled in the side
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Different designs vary, but the main takeaway here is that you don't have to
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suffer the ugliness of exposed metal drawer slides if you don't want to. You
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can get performance without giving up any good looks
