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Printer Shelf Slide

My HP4100N (duplexing black+white) and HP2605N (color) printers are ancient and damned heavy. The 4100 has two paper drawers, a duplexer, and a heavy toner cartridge - 40 pounds.

In the past, I've slid and manhandled the 4100 onto a roller cart to fix it; I worried about dropping it and breaking it, or dropping it onto my foot and breaking that.

So, I built sliding shelves for the printers, with scrap 2x4s, finish-grade plywood, and two pairs of 26 inch Rocker 100 pound overtravel drawer slides

This photo shows the printer shelves slid back into the 2 foot deep, 4 foot wide Hallowell steel shelf unit. The 2x4 uprights are screwed to the steel shelf through three holes in the steel shelf (note the horizontal row of 1-inch-spaced holes on the front of the shelf, there is also a row down the middle and one down the back).

The three verticals are spaced 19 inches (center-to-center) apart. For these two printers, I could have made the shelves narrower, but someday I may get an even wider "industrial grade" printer. As is, the space underneath is wide enough for a ream of 8.5x11 paper; typically I store a ream of letter and a ream of legal down there.

( Irrelevant: Note that the lower drawer on the 4100N holds A4 ISO paper - I often use that for documents from my European and Asian colleagues. Makes that printer even heavier. Heavier still if I swap in the legal-sized 8.5x14 paper tray. The duplexer in back makes the 4100 printer heavier still. )