fulltimin
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After building the first set of drawers and cabinet frame, I wanted to add on the rest of the setup from the left.
In the meantime, I needed to purchase another piece of 3/4" plywood, and that's when the trouble started.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/differentplywood.jpg)
Right there is why. Different thicknesses. My plan was to leave about 1/16" between the plywood and the 2x above it, and then add a shim to make up the difference.
Oops.
If you want to do something, you will find a way.
If you don't, you will find an excuse.
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A lot of experience, comes from bad judgement.
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fulltimin
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Bring out the dial calipers.
I measured the plywood bought previously.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plywoodthickness.jpg)
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plywoodthickness2.jpg)
Thickness for 3/4" plywood comes out at about .690".
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Then I measured the new piece, and we are looking at about .737", or not quite 1/16" different than the other piece.
Just enough to make a big difference when assembling things.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plywoodthickness3.jpg)
Just annoying to me. It's not catastrophic, as I can work around it. I just wasn't expecting that.
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I had to remove the end of the passenger side counter cabinet today (red arrow), to allow access to install the framework to hold the drawer slides, (black arrow).
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/removeside.jpg)
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Next up was to create the male portion of the slides, and position them correctly for the top drawer. (red arrows).
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/makeslides.jpg)
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I also fastened the back and the bottom of the cabinet frame to get ready to install the top drawer.
The drawers below will indexed from the top drawer, so it was critical to get the top one correct.
There we go. Top drawer installed, and with a little furniture wax, slides like greased snot.
Ok, maybe I could have used a better term there, but you get the idea. Lol! ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/topdrawerinstalled.jpg)
Wahoo! 3 to go!
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Time for another episode of "how to not build a motor home". Lol.
Did you ever wonder what would happen if you cut a small sliver of wood of of a piece of plywood?
No?
Me neither. Then, I needed a thin shim, so I cut a piece off of a piece of 1/2" thick ply.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plywoodbeforecut.jpg)
That was a piece like the one I cut.
After cutting the top ply off, and just a touch of the second ply, plus the cut from the blade, this is what happened. Who knew?
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plywoodaftercut.jpg)
They were both straight before I cut the one. Ok, then.
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I finished cutting the parts for the last 3 drawer slides. After cutting the dovetails and fitting them to the drawers, I installed the second and third drawers.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/3drawersinstalled.jpg)
As you can see, the slides are installed for the last drawer, but I haven't put it into place here yet.
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At that point, I installed the 4th drawer. OOPS! Looks like somebody mis-measured just a touch.
Spacing between the number 3 and 4 drawer is off just a bit.
By the time this happened, it was past quitting time. Ah well, that will be corrected tomorrow.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/4thdrawerinstalled.jpg)
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ALRIGHTY! I moved the drawer slides down just a little bit today for the bottom drawer, to keep the spacing correct.
That looks a lot better to me.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/drawersinstalled.jpg)
Finally done with the preliminaries for these drawers. Wahoo!!!
Listen, I get it. You're probably tired of hearing about these drawers. So am I. Lol.
Even though I am not completely finished with these, it's time to do some additional work on other things for a little while.
(Ok, the cheering can die down now)! LOL!
I do thank you for hanging in there with me.
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