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Cabinet drawers can take a beating. They are typically built with inexpensive materials and stapled together. You can make them strong with some basic parts.
Cabinet drawers can get overloaded with silverware, cookbooks, or virtually anything you need to store. Slam these drawers a few times and this jostles the weighty contents around and weakens the fasteners…leading you to repair them.
Common drawer repairs range from the drawer sides coming apart from the back or front, and the drawer bottom sagging from the groove it sits in.
You can buy some small angle brackets and install them at the corners. You can mount these on the inside of the drawer box or the outside (if they don’t get in the way of the sliding drawer’s operation). Use small screws so that they don’t penetrate through the other side of the wood. Tighten the screws until snug only.
To secure the drawer front to the box, you can add a washer. In many cases the front will become loose after multiple slammings and this will pull the screw head partially into the wood, which gives the drawer front some play. You can place a washer under the screw head which will stop the screw from pulling into the wood.
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