LIBERTY 942005 Soft-Close Ball Bearing Drawer Slide, 20 inch, 1 Pair (2 Pieces)

Love these slides. Made a wall mounted dresser for my closet and used 4 sets for the drawers. I have them filled with clothes and they are so nice for someone who likes to have their drawers closed without slamming. They can be a little finicky if everything is not perfectly square. If the closer pops out when you close the draw and doesn't get drawn out on the next pull, it's not square. I was able to pop it back in (a few times) and finally was able to square everything up nicely. Drawers close without a sound (great for keeping the wife asleep when leaving) and I like they require a bit of resistance to open.

Heavy duty weight capacity. Slides reall smoothly and it is available in different sizes for drawers. But I used it to build a hidden compartment sliding table top. Works perfectly.

I've been building my own cabinets for years and have used this style (non soft-closing) of slides for quite awhile now. This was the first time I bought the soft close feature of this style of slide. Since I build box style cabinets using melamine coated particle board, the issues people bring up about weak screws for hardwood aren't an issue for me. The one thing I noticed is that they do require more force to open than a non-soft close style slide. Why is this? The answer is in the way they create the soft closing. When you close the drawer, the slides stop your force near the end, and they themselves pull the drawer closed the last inch or so. How do they do this? The answer is that when you open the drawer, you are loading springs at the back end of the slides, thus providing them the stored energy to do the work of closing the drawers all by themselves for that last bit of travel. It's that spring loading energy you provide that makes the drawer seem harder to open when compared to a non-self closing drawer. Once you've loaded the springs, an inch or so of initial travel, the drawer slides are as smooth and easy as any non soft-closing slides. My new kitchen design forgoes any cabinet doors on the lower cabinets, opting for large drawers instead, which seems to be the choice for higher end custom kitchens. I'm still building the cabinets so I can't comment yet on how these drawer slides work over time. Once I finish the project and have a chance to evaluate them over time in practical use, I'll update my review.

We used these for large dresser drawers in a camper van. They’re easy to install as long as your measurements are perfect, any little bit off and they will bind up and not slide. The wood screws included are easily the most likely point of failure so I threw them away and upgraded to my own. Only real complaint is that the length of these slides suggests they’re for a larger drawer than the weight they’re actually rated for. At 50 lbs max, after you build a plywood drawer, you don’t have a lot of actual capacity left to fill it, but if you ignore the numbers, they really don’t seem like they’re going to bend or break under normal use. Easy to install, nice and smooth operation, “soft close” feature keeps them from slamming shut, but don’t depend on it to hold them shut if you use them in a camper like I did, install latches.

I only got the soft close slide because I could not find other slide in the 20 inch size I needed. So I was really not concerned how it worked. The draw extends the full length of the slide making easy to into the back of the drawer which was my primary goal. The self close works when you close the drawer to about 6 inches of close. It comes with enough screws for 3 screws in each section, 12 all together. I was using plywood for these workshop drawers and the carcass and the screws held fine. The screws seeme too small to hold up the weight but they did fine. At about $10 these are a very good value to hold 100lbs and still get the full extension especially to 20". the install instructions seem very complicated but my method was simple. Doing some arithmetic to center the drawer and accommodate the top and bottoms spacing (1/8") I used 2 blocks cut to the right same dimension to position the slide and hold it will I marked the openings to drill a starter hole. Easy and fast.

I've been using drawer slides for medium weight drawers from the big box hardware stores for several years. they work just fine and cost about the same as these (I'm a facility manager for several daycares). I bought these to save myself a trip to the store and see how they compare. They are too difficult to pull out and not as smooth as other economy brands I have bought from the two big box hardware stores. If you need a drawer pull that will really prevent the drawer from opening too easy, like in a maintenance van driving over rough payment, these would be worth a try. For an everyday drawer in your house or business, just too difficult to pull open.

These slides were heavy, good quality and easy to install. I am ordering another set for a small cabinet I am making for my wife!

Installed a new dishwasher across a cabinet inside corner before noticing that the nearby cabinet door handle would open against the dishwasher, causing damage at some point. These slides allowed me to convert the cabinet door into useable slide-out drawers and keep the appearance the same. They installed and worked as advertised in spite of two pair needing to work simultaneously.