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Subject:Re: That slick plastic tape to quiet down the slider door?
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:53:13 -0500

http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/vanagon-sliding-door-quietening-hack/

http://www.cshyde.com/

The above links were posted in that thread.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>   Recently there was a thread about tape to put on the door track to
> quiet things down and make it slide open better?  Can someone point me
> to a place where that stuff is bought or sold?
>
>   I have a 'client' who wants me to "fix" some hopeless drawers in his
> kitchen, make them open better..."Just put some Home Depot mechanical
> drawer sliders on these drawers, OK?"...so I pull one out and it's not
> close to  square, it's nailed together with box nails and held with
> corner braces, bottom stapled on.....Hopeless.....but of course he
> doesn't want to spend much money on this to actually fix them, so I am
> wanting to tell him to just stick some of that tape on these P.O.S.
> drawers and maybe that will do it for him.   I would have to start
> from scratch with a whole new cabinet, the existing one is THAT bad...
> thanks Don Hanson
>