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  • How to Install a Lateral Lock on File Drawers

    If you don't have a secure lock on your file cabinet, then you can place a lateral lock along the edge of your drawers to keep them secured when you don't have them open for work. The locking bar connects to the face of your cabinet, covering the edges of the drawers to prevent their opening. Once the bar is placed in the closed position, a padlock keeps out unauthorized users.

  • How to Put Together Hanging File Frames

    Hanging file folders make it easier to organize your office and your life. Hanging file folders and frames are designed to fit into a desk drawer, and they allow you to store a large number of files and other important paperwork in a limited amount of space. But before you can start enjoying that convenience and efficiency, you first need to assemble the frames that hold hanging file folders.

  • How to Remove Steelcase Lateral File Drawers

    Reorganizing your office? Moving? Cleaning? Any of these scenarios may involve the removal of drawers from a lateral file cabinet. How you take out the drawers may depend on who made your file. Steelcase, a manufacturer of office furniture and equipment for nearly 100 years, uses a safety mechanism that consists of a tape and an interlocking cam that prevents drawers from spilling open all at once.

  • How to Remove Steelcase File Drawers

    Steelcase is a company that manufactures a variety of vertical and horizontal file cabinets with drawers. The drawers move in and out on a slider that is attached to each side. Steelcase cabinets have a built-in safety feature that prevents the drawers from falling out when pulled too far. The safety feature consists of plastic tabs, attached to each drawer, that project away from the drawer toward the drawer casing. Removing the drawers requires manipulation of the plastic tabs.

  • How to Fix File Drawers

    File drawers are designed to be used hard and are typically maintenance free, but even they can break if subjected to excessive use or damage. The only moving parts are the runners and their guide bars. The runners are low-friction wheels on the side of the file drawer itself and the guide rails are grooved flanges that the runner wheels ride on. If the guide rail is warped then the wheels can get stuck, and if the wheels are broken then they can lose their low-friction properties.

  • How to Hang Classification Folders With Dividers

    If you are the type of person who keeps stacks of papers on your desk, you might have reached the point where your workspace needs some organization. Creating folders with dividers is an efficient way to keep your notes and correspondence organized and off your desk.

  • How to Remove Hon File Drawers

    Hon filing cabinets have a suspension-rail drawer system, rather than a locking mechanism system with tabs, buttons or clips or a full rail assembly system in which the cabinet and rails are one piece, to hold file drawers in the filing cabinet. As a result, removal of a Hon drawer from the cabinet doesn't require the removal of locking hardware or the entire drawer and rail assembly. Instead, you only need to push the sides of the drawer off the suspension rails.

  • How to Remove a File Drawer

    Although most file cabinet manufacturers use a similar overall file cabinet design—box-shape with sliding file drawers—every manufacturer uses slightly different methods to stop a file drawer from simply sliding straight out of the cabinet onto the floor when pulled. The most common methods include a slide and pull system, locking mechanism or full rail assembly attachment. As a result, to remove a file drawer you must simply determine which type of “stop” design the manufacturer chose and then remove the drawer using the best method suited for that design.

  • How to Make a Knife From a Sabre Blade

    Serious fencers sometimes break a blade through continuous use. The blade may have been used to win a tournament, best a superior foe, or to defend yourself against a particularly challenging attack. The broken pieces speak of past great deeds. You may decide to salvage what you can of your weapon and make a knife from your broken sabre blade. If your sabre blade is a family heirloom that somehow got damaged, however, you will get far better results seeking the advice of a professional knife maker. Consult an antique dealer before making a knife from an old blade to…

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