There are several drawer guide styles, but the most common one -especially on furniture made more than a few years ago - uses asingle track under the center of the drawer. To remove the drawer,pull the drawer out until it stops. Now there are twopossibilities. Look under the bottom edge to see if you can see(or feel) either a white 'half moon' stop or a white plastic lever.If you find these, they can be depressed so the drawer can come therest of the way out.
Basically you install the drawer box backwards inside the cabinet and use the rear of the box to mount the new drawer front. Take the drawer box and the drawer front out of the cabinet. Remove the drawer slides form the drawer box. Using a table saw, skil saw, or flush router, trim as much of the drawer front off the drawer box as possible. Remove the lower drawer first, then remove the upper drawer. Open the drawer until it stops, then lift the front of the drawer up slightly off of the drawer slide while continuing to pull the assembly out of the compartment. Push the drawer slides back manually to provide sufficient clearance for removal.
To re-install the drawer, engage the guide onthe bottom of the drawer with the guide in the dresser and push thedrawer back into the case. You will probably feel some resistanceas the drawer passes over the detent. If you don't see any whitedetent part, grasp the drawer with a hand on each side of the sidepanels of the drawer close to the front of the case and give it asharp pull. It should pass over a friction detent and come out ofthe case. Re-install as above.
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I feel extremely stupid because this drawers rails have me stumped.I don't know the best subreddit to ask this question so if it's not right, please let me know.That said, there are no levers on this drawer, and as you see from the pictures there doesn't seem to be any release mechanism either. It wouldn't be the end of the world if i couldn't remove the drawer were it not for the fact that I can't get in there and remove the rest of the screws due to their proximity (can't get the tools in there). The main problem is, in order to get this desk into my office, I need to dissasemble the sides to even fit it in the door.
This presents a problem when I can't get my tools in there to unscrew the side panel from the drawer side without removing this top drawer.The bottom one came out fine and dandy, because it had one of those lever release drawers. Any help would be appreciated. Hell even a point in the right direction would be great.I've never felt defeated by a fucking drawer before, also, typing out drawer is really hard for me apparently. Thanks guys.UPDATE got it! You can see 3 screws up top with a 4th just out of reach. I took out the 3 screws on each top piece and used that latch looking thing that's right behind the front panel (in black).
Then it allowed me to lift the top rail pieces up a bit as there was only one screw on each side now so it allowed for rotation. Anyhow it still wouldn't come out so I resigned to just take every screw out I could find. Sure enough I only had to take the two screws out that were right near the front which allowed me to just slide the drawers right out of the rails. Apparently the only things holding that drawer to the rails is a top rail that is locked to the rest of the setup. Either way it's still a shitty design and am annoyed it took me this long to figure out!.
Most drawer extensions have a lever, tab, or button to release one part of the rail from the other. It sounds like you are familiar with that concept because the bottom slides were like that.If these slides don't separate, then the drawer had to be screwed to the rails after the rails were screwed to the cabinet.Look for a hole that allows access to the back screws. I see a hole in one of your pictures. You may have to move the drawer or bearing carrier in and out to align the hole over the screw head(s). If you can unscrew all the screws, the drawer will come out.