Blum Tandem slides for file drawers?
ButchersWood
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I am building a custom office setup – leather covered standalone desktop with mahogany drawer stacks that roll underneath. I’ve used Blum Tandem for kitchen cabinets, but was wondering how well a bottom-mounted slide like this works for a tall narrow file drawer? I’d use the 125# model. I just wondered if anyone could share their experience using Tandems with file drawers.
Roger
I’d rather be making cabinets and friends….
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I used them for filing cabinets in our shop office. They are still working perfectly after about 4 years. Just make sure you are using the heavier load rating (50 kgs.)
DR
Use the heavy duty ones and you should be fine. They have orange parts with the usual grey colored Tandem parts. Dont forget the Blumotion closers....... Aloha, Mike
Reactions to Blumotion are all over the place - some folks think they are the coolest, people with kids who slam drawers think they are essential, but lots of people think "why should I pay an extra $10 per drawer for this gimmick?". Hats off to Blum for making something like this so dead easy to install though....RogerRogerI'd rather be making cabinets and friends....
If you have ever used Accurides, as I did exclusively for fifteen years, The Blumotion glides with the installation jig is so much faster why would you want to use anything else? I can set up four drawers in a case in 15 minutes-3 times faster than my fastest setup with Accurides. I love Accurides and still use them for some things (really heavy drawers, odd pullouts) but the speed of install and customer acceptance of the Blum quality trumps all. I dont even charge extra for them on wood box drawers and they make my business look good. Aloha, Mike
I love Accurides and and a pain in the butt to install!
But I still use them.. Once there.. They work GREAT!
I have to agree with Mike. Since our shop switched to Blum slides (both for kitchens and solid wood cabinet drawers) we don't even offer the client another option. He gets only Blumotion slides from us, take it or leave it. And you can believe me we have checked and tried the others, including their Austrian competition Grass, because there is so much money involved. I don't work for Blum, on the contrary, last year we paid them over $50,000 for drawers and slides. It was well spent.
DR
I think we may be talking about two different things, lets make sure. I agree with everything you have said about the Blum Tandem slides - dead easy to install and work extremely well. But Blumotion is not the slide, its the anti-slam attachment that adds another 50% to the cost of the installation that I was talking about. Do you always install your Tandem slides with this option?RogerI'd rather be making cabinets and friends....
Yes, you are right. On the kitchen drawers it has become an integral part of the slide mechanism, and as I said, we don't offer any alternative. On the slides for wooden drawers the Blumotion mechanism is a separate device that you can use (or not) as an addition to the regular Tandem slide sets. We use the Blumotion on these when the design warrants.
DR
slides for wooden drawers the Blumotion mechanism is a separate device that you can use (or not) as an addition to the regular Tandem slide sets.Not any more. The Blumotion device is built in to all the Tandems and is not an add on device like the early versions. Within a few months that Blumotion slide in hydraulic damper will be relegated to the dust bin of history. The new Tandem with Blumotion is way smaller in profile and looks like the plain Tandems. Aloha, Mike
When did these become available? I last bought Tandem slides about 60 days ago and Blumotion was an add-on!RogerI'd rather be making cabinets and friends....
My supplier (on Maui) only has the new ones as of 2 weeks ago. They are the same size as original Tandems and this is the only way Blum is going to supply them now. Apparently they are popular........ Aloha, Mike
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