09-05-2012, 01:36 PM
No argument there Tom. 
When I brought my boxes home from the last shop at worked at, I had pretty much the same problem. Every drawer was getting to be a real bear to open. I emptied out and removed every drawer to give it all a thorough cleaning inside and out. Roll cab, top chest, and side cabinet.
The whole interior of every box and every drawer slide was covered in a thick black sticky sludge. What the....??? At first I thought someone had played a prank on me by spraying the inside with undercoating.
But then I realized the sludge looked kind of familiar. It looked very similar to the black fuzzing coating we would get on the shop fans all the time. I finally realized the source of the sludge had come from the two overhead waste oil heaters they installed in the shop several years ago. They were constantly clogging up, or not burning correctly and smoking the place up. They would never fix them unless they stopped working completely. I shudder to think what the inside of my lungs look like now.
Anyway.... I cleaned and degreased the boxes inside and out as well as soaking and scrubbing every one of the slides in a bucket of kerosene. Lubed them up and reassembled it all. The drawers all slide like new again. So perhaps it's worth a try on yours as well.
When I brought my boxes home from the last shop at worked at, I had pretty much the same problem. Every drawer was getting to be a real bear to open. I emptied out and removed every drawer to give it all a thorough cleaning inside and out. Roll cab, top chest, and side cabinet.
The whole interior of every box and every drawer slide was covered in a thick black sticky sludge. What the....??? At first I thought someone had played a prank on me by spraying the inside with undercoating.
But then I realized the sludge looked kind of familiar. It looked very similar to the black fuzzing coating we would get on the shop fans all the time. I finally realized the source of the sludge had come from the two overhead waste oil heaters they installed in the shop several years ago. They were constantly clogging up, or not burning correctly and smoking the place up. They would never fix them unless they stopped working completely. I shudder to think what the inside of my lungs look like now.
Anyway.... I cleaned and degreased the boxes inside and out as well as soaking and scrubbing every one of the slides in a bucket of kerosene. Lubed them up and reassembled it all. The drawers all slide like new again. So perhaps it's worth a try on yours as well.
Willie