LONTAN 6 Pairs 22 Inch Soft Close Drawer Slides Heavy Duty 100lb Capacity

Have bought these before and I’ve never had issues!

Works great

I thought these were a good deal @ $80 for 6 pair. Installation went well, and they felt smooth and sturdy. After a few weeks, one of my drawers lost the "soft close". Upon closer inspection, the little plastic shock-absorber was broken. The seller agreed to send me a replacement once the slides were back in stock. A couple weeks later, I received my replacement, along with a pleasant surprise. The new slide was much improved! The plastic piston is now metal, along with a couple other bits that were plastic. The springs are sturdier as well. After confirming with the seller that this is the new Lontan design, I checked the current price (expecting an increase). To my surprise, 6 pair are now only $75 instead of $80! These are very good for the price, but I'm bummed that I have the old style, and hope I don't have any more failures.

Making a new kitchen cabinet, and used these slides for pots and pans drawers. They were as easy to install as any of these types of sliders are (which is to say, a little fiddle, but not too hard) and can support the weight of the full drawer (which is quite heavy with all the pots I have!). They are true full extension and the soft close works well. Two things I particularly like, and haven’t seen (or at least noticed) on other similar sliders I’ve installed: First, when you remove the drawer, the inner portion of these remains protruding about 2 inches, which actually makes re-inserting the drawer easier. And secondly, I adjusted my plans after initial install. I was going to have inset drawers (with doors overlaying them), so aligned the sliders with the inside of my face frame. However, once I got the cabinet in place, I then decided to get rid of the doors and have overlay drawer fronts instead. I unscrewed the sliders from the inside of the cabinet, moved them forward to the front of the face frame (about 0.75”) and 2 out the 3 original screw holes were still aligned with holes in the slides! This made re-installation a breeze. The drawer itself slid right back in with no modifications needed to that part of the slider. I don’t know if this is a feature of these guys, or I just got lucky, but I love them for it anyway!

I replaced my Blum bottom corner mount epoxy slides to this side mount soft close slide. Liked the smooth drawer slide and soft close mechanism. I chose to install the slide in the middle of the drawer box for all my drawer boxes that ranged from 4” to 9” tall mainly for aesthetic reasons. I couldn’t find any articles that said where the ideal slide location should be. Some said middle and some said didn’t matter and some said depends on the depth of the drawer so I chose middle. My dresser has ball bearing slides installed in the middle location so that swayed me to my decision. Many YouTube videos I watched installed the slides aligned to the bottom edge of the drawer. Can’t comment on durability yet however slide action is tight with no play. I spent most of the time measuring and double checking my measurements before drilling the holes. Measure twice and cut once is a good rule. Getting the drawer gaps perfect was important to me. I suggest to mark the cabinet face gaps with masking tape before removing the old slides. I used counter sink wood screws from my local hardware store instead of the counter sink screws that came with slides as I’m leery of the metal it’s made from. You don’t want to those screws to snap off during installation. I used a punch and self centering drill bit to help install the screws in the correct locations.

I'm using these to replace kitchen cabinet slides which were new in 1997. Those didn't have soft close nor do they have full extension. The great thing about these is they work in those older cabinets and have full open. I previously used Blum under drawer slides which are fabulous but these 1997 cabinet drawers have zero clearance between the side bottoms and the frame. The LONTAN are the best option I could find. As other reviewers state, the instructions leave a lot to your imagination. After installing 3 drawers, I started to get the hang of it. The Jig's you can buy online don't help. I found that in cabinetry, the tolerances are VERY high (if you care about how things look). So, the Jig's leave too much slop to be useful. But my main reason for 3 stars is the screws. LONTAN recommends using a Pozidriv #2 screwdriver. After stripping and breaking several screws using a standard phillips #2, bought the PZ2 bits but they were much worse at stripping the screws. The metal of these screws is really cheap and soft. My cabinet frames are maple and so they are very hard. Even tho I pre-drill, I often break the head off. I've even tried cranking down the settings on my Ryobi battery powered drill to around 8 or 7 but then I have trouble getting the screw to fully seat. Breaking heads is bad - especially in the one hole which mounts the front to the frame. Once you break the screw head off there, you can no longer use that hole. There are two holes above/below that but they are much harder to use and if the screw is not 100% flat, it scrapes on the metal. Additionally, there's a plastic piece that the drawer feeds into on the end of the slide. For some reason, they have additional plastic sticking out exactly where you need to put the screw! You can "open" the slider and find another hole but this is awkward and doesn't allow you to see that you have the 1/8" clearance to the front face of the frame. As others have stated, the initial pull you need to get the drawer open takes some getting used to. My drawers have a single round knob in the middle so it's pretty easy for your hand to slip off the knob as you try to open the drawer. Finally, the main reason to have soft close is so the drawers all close. These slides need a little push to get the soft close mechanism to engage when the drawer is about 2" from the closed position. It's not unusual for the drawer to stop at the 2" and stay open. I wonder if I've made things go from drawers which are typically only 1/4" open to drawers that are 2" open! Honestly, if the screws were not complete crap, I would probably be OK with these other limitations. And if I didn't have Blum under drawer slides installed in other places, I wouldn't know that the soft close can be so much better.

We've been into wines a while, belong to 3 winery wine clubs. Thought it was time to splurge on a decent wine fridge. We picked the Lanbo single zone unit, capacity 149 bottles (retail price $1600). Lowe's had it on sale for $1200, and was running a promo...$100 off on purchases of $999 or more. Didn't seem like we could pass this up! Upon delivery, we started to load the 12 shelves with up to 11 bottles each. Once loaded, the shelves were very hard to move, and some of them became dislodged from one side or the other of the sliders, and crashed down on the shelf below. I took a close look and found that the slides they use are Junk! After complaining a lot, I told them I was willing to keep it and fix it myself if they would make it worth my while. They did, giving me more that the cost of these sliders. The fridge is outstanding...Now! It's a crying shame they don't use sliders of this quality in the first place! I know this write-up sounds more like a wine (whine) fridge review, but we wouldn't have that fridge if it weren't for these great sliders!

I bought these to replace the cheap rollers that came with our nursery dresser and they work perfectly. The drawers now pull all the way out so I can actually get to what’s in them, they glide smoothly, feel much more stable, and are way quieter than the originals. I’m 8 months pregnant, but no stranger to DIY projects, and I was able to install everything myself in a few hours with minimal challenges. The hardware is a decent quality, so I didn’t have any issues with the screws breaking or heads stripping out. I would definitely buy these again!

excellent quality great value

Very good brand