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Subject:Re: That slick plastic tape to quiet down the slider door?
From:Don Hanson
Date:Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:58:47 -0800

Thanks everyone,

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/vanagon-sliding-door-quietening-hack/
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> http://www.cshyde.com/
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> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>   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?
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>>   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
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