Heavy duty aluminum drawers, fits truck beds

mikeland

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I have posted the same ad in another section, and found this to be more appropriate, sorry to all for the duplication

I'm located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

I'll just ad that the drawers are 6061 aluminum, minimum clearances all around and maximum useable space.

my ad pasted in.

custom heavy duty aluminum drawers

For sale, a set of aluminum drawers custom designed and fabricated. Shown here installed in my 2000 Tundra but will fit any 6 foot (or larger) box. The drawers themselves are just over 6 feet long, 73" I believe ( I will confirm)and run the full length of a 6" box in a Toyota Tundra.

Drawers are full length for a 6' bed and 12" high. Drawers extend 60" (yes that's five feet) and can support 300 pounds when extended. Lots of well thought out features to access when open/closed,side panels etc. Tons of room. Travel with all your tools and gear

They are made using $2000 in aluminum plate of various thicknesses (thats at shop rate, not retail), $600 accuride slides, countless hours of design and fabrication. Top notch welding. Minimum clearances and wasted space, light weight, extremely strong and tough.

I sold the truck and these things are taking up space.

Box mounts were used, no drilling.

I used it for camping, shown is a 4" foam pad inside that purple bedsheet (sheet included, I'll even launder it) on top that makes for nearly a queen size bed. Act now and I'll throw in the pad, I'll even install them for you. Good sleeps to be had in there if it's your intended use. The black strips on the drawer faces are just foam to soften contact with the gate. Also designed to accept water seal to seal the gate if used under a cap or cover (seals included). With the foam pad in place it acts like a giant cooler, every stays cool even with the truck parked in the sun.

Everything at your finger tips, well organized and ready for action.

One of a kind, make your friends and enemies jealous.

More photos available

1500 CDN or make an offer

Mike

Hamilton Ontario

mikeland@cogeco.ca
 

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mikeland

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dimensions

I had a question of dimensions so I thought I'd post here also

I designed it to just fit between the wheel wells of my Tundra, you'll notice the outboard drawer slides are at the top of the drawer, gives about an extra inch of drawer width. The left drawer is slightly narrower than the right. The left drawer is designed to perfectly fit the rubbermaid tubs shown in the photo.

I wanted to make the driver side drawer the minimum required for the tubs and the passenger side drawer as wide as possible in case i had something larger to stow.

the overall width of the bottom of the drawers including side supports is 49 3/8 inches (the between the wheel well portion)

Overall length is 75 1/8 inch. I left minor clearance for rubber at the cab end and tailgate end, about 1/8 at either end.

In a Tundra it fits like a glove, should fit any vehicle designed to accomodate a sheet of plywood between the wheel wells

The driver side drawer is 22 1/2 inches wide at the bottom (wider at the top)

The passeger side drawer is 24 3/8 inches wide, (also wider at the top)

The drawer heights are 11 3/4 inch (just tall enough to accomodate a milk crate, with extra width to spare) and the top plate of the rig is 3/16, very rigid.

I haven't weighed it but I have picked it up with two people (a hefty grunt though). I did take apart the drawer slides and cut 73 holes iin each slide to reduce weight. I am very familiar with beam design, the holes did not affect slide strength but did knock off about 50 pounds from the four slides.

It offers more useable space than wood drawers. a wood drawer side will be 1/2" or better x 4 sides if you have 2 drawes. add in drawer sides, at least x 3 (two outer sides, one middle). All in all much more useable space with this unit. It is also lighter than an equivalent wood assembly.


I need the room in my garage, I have plans for a van and no room to work.

Mike L
 
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