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Re: Need help getting a drawer open

This always happens to my sock drawer, it's full of little squares.  I guess I have fat socks.

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Re: Need help getting a drawer open


@BeccaLou wrote:

If You Can Take Out The Drawer Below The Stuck Drawer. That Will Dislodge The Item.I've Had That Happen Several Times. It Taught Me To Slow Down, Being Hurried Always Causes Me Problems.


Most older furniture will have 'dust catchers' (solid wood) between rows of shelving to prevent dirt/debris from an above drawer gettting into lower drawers. If the furniture has these dust catchers you can't just reach up from a lower drawer. 

 

If the drawer isn't too full you might be able to shake/vibrate it enough to shift the object blocking the drawer. A pad sander without any sandpaper on it, or something like the Hitachi Magic Wand (useful in so many ways) applied to the drawer, might just rattle things around enough in the drawer to shift the object blocking it out of the way. Both types of devices can vibrate the heck out of whatever they touch and anything in the drawer will be moving. If the drawer's overly full, that may not help, but it can't hurt.

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