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   Rich14 | Nov 27, 2008 10:16pm | #1

   Sully,

   The drawer fronts would need to be notched if you hang the drawers from side guides or if there is a center bottom guide but not if you use the traditional method of running the drawers on the bottoms of their sides. There are several ways to do that.

   Rich

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   Jamie_Buxton | Nov 28, 2008 01:58am | #2

   When you say 2-way drawers, do you mean that the drawer can be pulled out of the cabinet both directions -- what might be called the front and the rear?

   If so, one way to do it is to not use conventional drawer slides at all.   Make the drawer as a simple box.   Inside the carcass, the box is supported at the bottom of the box sides.  There also must be a rail just above the top of the box sides, to prevent the front of the box from falling down as it is pulled out.

   One interesting issue with this kind of drawer is how to establish a detent where the box is fully inside the cabinet -- so that it doesn't just slide out the other side.   The slickest scheme I've seen used those rare-earth magnets.  There were ones embedded in the drawer sides, and mating ones in the cabinet.  When the ones in the drawer sides are directly in front of the ones in the cabinet, there's a strong attraction, and makes the detent action.