Is a Wooden Slide or a Metal Slide Better?

As a Drawer Slide Wholesale, share with you.

First, the advantages and disadvantages of metal slide rails

Advantages: easy installation, suitable for any board, especially relatively thin particleboard, density board. It is widely used and practical.

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Disadvantages: metal slide rails have a life limit. The drawer contains too much load, and the drawer is not opened smoothly. As a result, the drawer is deformed and damaged, and the sliding is not smooth. Side Installation Drawer Slide warps and deforms after using it for a long time. The drawer box is too deep. After the drawer is fully pulled out, the drawer may tilt or fall off, causing some safety hazards.

The actual occupied position is larger than the wooden drawer. Compared with solid wood furniture, some customers feel that it is not high-end. Because the quality of metal slide rails is very different, everyone should pay attention to distinguish good and bad materials when buying. There are many different application methods and application environments for metal slide rails. In the process of producing slide rails, we need to protect our slide rails from various factors like a bird's nest. This is why we have integrated the surface treatment of the slide rails to suit their different application environments. Surface treatment is a protective chemical coating that helps metal surfaces resist corrosion. In addition to stainless steel, steel is even susceptible to slight humidity. Therefore, proper anti-rust treatment can extend the service life of drawer slides for decades. Galvanizing is one of the three common surface treatment agents: It uses a zinc-based zinc coating with a clear or black chromate coating, which is a standard coating that resists moderate corrosion. It is suitable for indoor environments such as office and home cabinets.

In contrast, the frequently used black electrophoresis provides several times the corrosion resistance of galvanized coatings, and tends to be used on dark cabinets.

Advantages and disadvantages of wooden slides

Advantages: maintenance-free and no life issues. It occupies a small area and fits with the cabinet, which is more beautiful. As you can see in the pictures, it is obvious that the wooden slide rails are more reasonable with the solid wood furniture.

For solid wood furniture, wooden slide rails are definitely better than metal slide rails. They are high-grade, beautiful, and wood slide rails are known as 10,000-year-old rails.

Disadvantages: High requirements for boards, general particle boards and MDF cannot be used as wooden slides.

It requires high manual technology. Although the wooden slide rail does not need to purchase additional materials, the groove grinding itself is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost is high.

Newly-made drawers will cause unfavorable pulling conditions, and it will take a while to get used to running in.

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