Kitchen drawing falls out? It’s probably the track. Here’s how to fix it

ORLANDO, Fla. – Carole asked us to look at her kitchen drawer because she was tired of it falling down and falling out. It wouldn’t roll right – so that made us suspect it was the track. We fixed it with just a drill and a screwdriver!

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We purchased:

We brought with us:

electric drill (which we also used as an electric screwdriver)

Step 1

Clean it out, light it up and crawl underneath. We had to figure out what was wrong with Carole’s drawer but we couldn’t see it – until we got under it inside the cabinet. We cleaned out Carole’s pots and pans, shined a big light inside the cabinet, and climbed inside. Surely enough, we discovered one of the tracks that the drawer rolls back and forth on was broken and no longer attached to the back of the cabinet. The plastic track bracket that was mounted to the back of the cabinet had broken off so the track fell down so the drawer would fall down.

Step 2

Drill new holes into the remaining plastic bracket. We were lucky enough that there was enough plastic bracket left that we could drill new holes (the old holes broke off with the old piece that broke off). So we used a small drill bit and drilled 2 new holes through the remaining bracket.

Step 3

Put screws through the new holes and screw them into the back of the cabinet where the old screws went. Basically we put the track and remaining bracket back exactly where it used to attach to the wall at the back of the cabinet, except that we created our own holes and screwed the bracket back in place using those new holes. We used WD-40 on the track and wheels… and then the drawer rolled perfectly without falling!

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