Why does everyone keep undermounting drawer slides wrong?

I see guys at the shop all the time mounting undermount slides straight to the bottom of the drawer box without any gap for the locking mechanism. Did 30 drawers for a kitchen last week and had to redo 12 because the previous guy just screwed them flush. The slides need that 1/16 gap or they bind up and the drawer won't close smooth. Has anyone else run into this with the Blum slides specifically?

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tarab5428d ago

Read somewhere that Blum actually puts the gap specs right in the manual but nobody bothers to check. They even sell those little plastic spacers for it.

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noahchen27d ago

Yeah those plastic spacers are a lifesaver honestly. I used a stack of playing cards once to get the gaps right before I knew about them, ended up way more accurate than I thought it would be.