danemayer
Well-known member
I've had the MorRyde sliding drawer in the pass through storage for nearly a year now and one annoying shortcoming is in the unlatching system. The drawer slides out both directions, but whichever side I'm on, when I pull the latch, the drawer slides out only toward me. Often, I want something underneath the drawer that's on the side I'm on. So I needed a way to unlatch the drawer handle on the other side so I can push the drawer away from me.
Prototyped a simple solution today and I'll see over time how it holds up. It's four 1/4" x 2" eyebolts with 1/4" nuts, four extra 1/4" nuts, two pieces of string, and two pieces of tape.
Drill 1/4" hole in the top rail of the drawer, on each side of each end of the drawer. Put one nut above the rail and one under the rail to mount the eye bolt so it doesn't come into contact with anything as the drawer slides.
On the latch side, angle the eye bolt so when you pull the string through, it doesn't contact the bracket below the eye bolt. Loop the string around the latch handle and tape it in place. If you allow the string to contact the bracket below the eye bolt, the string will get cut.
The string should be tied so it's just barely taut.
To unlatch the far side latch, pull up on the string until you hear it unlatch, push the drawer, release the string.
Video attached below.
Now, I'm sure someone can improve on this prototype. Maybe something on the end of the drawer to guide the string.
Jerrod???
Prototyped a simple solution today and I'll see over time how it holds up. It's four 1/4" x 2" eyebolts with 1/4" nuts, four extra 1/4" nuts, two pieces of string, and two pieces of tape.
Drill 1/4" hole in the top rail of the drawer, on each side of each end of the drawer. Put one nut above the rail and one under the rail to mount the eye bolt so it doesn't come into contact with anything as the drawer slides.
On the latch side, angle the eye bolt so when you pull the string through, it doesn't contact the bracket below the eye bolt. Loop the string around the latch handle and tape it in place. If you allow the string to contact the bracket below the eye bolt, the string will get cut.
The string should be tied so it's just barely taut.
To unlatch the far side latch, pull up on the string until you hear it unlatch, push the drawer, release the string.
Video attached below.
Now, I'm sure someone can improve on this prototype. Maybe something on the end of the drawer to guide the string.
Jerrod???