Draw(er) ball slides?

[gareth]

What's the knack to re-assemble a draw(er) slide when you've got two halves, a movable bit, and a lot of ball-bearings in your Hand?

(And thereby hangs a tale :-( )

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Grease - to hold the ball bearings in place.

[GB]

Go to the ikea spares department?

Do you have another one to copy from? If so, what's the problem?

[Bob Minchin]

The ones I use have a carriage as a third component to hold the balls in position.

[philipuk]

If it's in pieces then chances are it's all bent up and needs replacement. FUBAR in other words. The only option is to replace it.

It might end up cheaper to replace the whole piece of furniture if many slides have broken in that way (we have an Argos chest of drawers where every single drawer slider gave up the ghost).

Philip

[Capitol]

Amazon is your friend. The slides used by MFI and Ikea are interchangeable in many cases. Just make sure the length is correct.

[Brian Gaff]

Funnily enough, I usually find there are nearly always some balls missing as well, so a source of balls would be nice. There seems to be several types of these but they do tend to have a kind of plastic bit that stops the balls falling out, except that it either breaks or wears so they do. Brian

[Terry Casey]

Replace them!

I've bought from these people on-line.

Good heavy duty runners at reasonable prices so it's hardly worth the effort

- and frustration - of fiddling with the old ones.

Do tell what went wrong with the old ones!

[gareth]

Probably a destructive sideways thrust as the chipboard cartouche around the drawer slowly disintegrated.

Moral about Magnet kitchens - they are repulsive!