The Making of my Drop Slide - Description Video

[@Marco858636]

One of the best videos yet. No extra fluff, or talking about irrelevant jibber jabber. Good show.

[@tukocan]

Mike, thank you. I hope that my points came across ok, at the end of the day it's the product that does the talking and this drop slide has proven to us anyways as one of the best DIY projects yet.

[@philbrookes3023]

Thanks mate I have looked at just about every u tube video on this subject and only just found yours. What a legend. You explain all the pitfalls and mistakes so other blind billies like me don’t do the same. My fridge is 900mm long so purchased 1000mm sliders.once again thank you.

[@tukocan]

You welcome, I'm no KZbin expert but I hope I encouraged others to make the dropslide rather than dropping a huge sum of money. Yes I agree to using longer sliders, I'll make the whole assembly easier to make mad work with. With that said, mine still works perfectly even today with it fully loaded with woobly pops. 😉 Good luck with your dropslide.

[@philbrookes3023]

@@tukocan well old blind billy made a few mistakes but thank god I made it out of mdf . Works perfectly. Now just follow mdf templates . Once again Thank You

[@sirgregoir]

I have been looking for one, but all are overpriced simplicity. Thankyou, I'm going to do the same, build one. Good work brother

[@georgebl6501]

Thank you, this info is great, as Grandpa said: is best to learn from others mistakes, in stead of making your own from the bottom up, i just bought my fridge for my truck and this info comes as if was sent from heaven.....

[@tukocan]

The great thing with working with metal is that you can add or subtract when mistakes occur.....which there were a few. LOL I'm super pleased with my second DIY drop slide. Thanks for your comments and good luck with yours!

[@Maca115070]

Well done mate 👍

[@tukocan]

thank you.

[@ryanphotostudio]

Thanks for sharing mate!!

[@tukocan]

Your welcome, good luck with your DIY dropslide.

[@livelikeaking]

Great video and awesome tips on a diy drop slide. Thanks for sharing

[@tukocan]

Thank you Lance, I hope that these videos do help you with possibly making one yourself.

[@GregDawson]

Nicely done. Appreciate the breakdown on the dropper!

[@tukocan]

Thank you and your welcome. 👍

[@driesoberholzer8689]

You are a superstar! First proper how to vid on youtube! Kudos brother!

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@jeffjenkins8303]

Thank you for taking the time to produce your video which shows in great detail how to make a drop fridge slide. I am going to make one also modeled on the one you made. You have done a great job.

[@tukocan]

Thank you Jeff, my drop slide works a dream and it's used regularly this time of the year. I hope I have hit all the main points in this video but your welcome to ask any questions if they arise. Good luck with your build.

[@rogergregory5981]

Thank you for making this video it's a really helpful guide, you made a really good drop slide there and a really good video , family in Australia have one but the price put off

[@tukocan]

Your welcome, the price for a dropslide here is what gave me the motivation to make one. A few years on and it's still going strong. Good luck with making a dropslide.

[@alvintan9476]

great video instruction. if all the vertical drop arms are 22cm from centre of bolts from top to bottom, what is your horizontal distance between them? is it also 22cm? thanks

[@iamoutofideas13]

Cool drop slide. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@danielbichokov1340]

Hi, nice build. Is it easy to pull it up when fully loaded ?

[@PhilipHarrington]

Thank you, great explanation of the pitfalls, nice you pointed out the mistakes you made so we can avoid. Excellent video mate.

[@tukocan]

Thought that I had it figured out with the first drop slide that I made, but this new one did catch me out when I recycled parts. Live and learn as they say but it was cool to get it working with as little as possible new material to create a bigger and better drop slide. We've used it on several trips now and it works great, even the missus has no problems with lowering/lifting to get her wine from the CFX35.

[@marcellusaaron7221]

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[@koltonsantana2236]

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[@marcellusaaron7221]

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[@marcellusaaron7221]

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[@georgieess3899]

Awesome. Cannot wait to make mine!!! Very very helpful!

[@tonysaxer3370]

Love that contraption, very helpful, thank you.

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@deanno7067]

Thank you for uploading this, it helps ALOT. Great explanation and great job !!!

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@stephen271]

Thanks mate I will make one of these myself as well the price of buying one is stupid much appreciated

[@tukocan]

Thank you, it's became a vital part of our equipment when overlanding/camping and it cost a fraction of the stupid prices. Good luck with yours.

[@bucket1249]

I'm almost done with mine I used all aluminum and welded it up. Pretty light I wanted to use nylon bushings on the pivot Points to make it Glide easier but of course my hardware stores out of them. I did see a hack where they use an old CB antenna bent over to hold up the power cable to keep from getting stuck in the sliders.

[@tukocan]

wow, that will be so much lighter than mine. BTW I have changed the bolts on the tray to clevis pins, which afforded me a few more mm width as I'm now using the Dometic thermo cover for the fridge. I like that hack, I have to see if I can make it work in my truck. Thank you for sharing that hack.

[@joshw5135]

Awesome video mate! I’ll give it a go soon

[@robertwilson1827]

How much lighter is this to the commercial drop sides?

[@tukocan]

I would say several kgs as it does not have flat bottom for the tray, no gas struts plus I did my best to keep this drop slide as light and strong as possible. This one does weigh between 8~9 kgs. A friend's brand name drop slide, we figured it was double in weight but I would recommend googling to compare figures.

[@wesleygoldstone4770]

Thank you. Well explained.

[@tukocan]

Thanks! my first video talking to the camera wasn't easy, glad to see that the main points did come through. BTW the drop slide still works a dream. 👍 Good luck with yours.

[@Mowk86]

Great video. Thank you! Now where in thr Canada are you from?

[@tukocan]

Mark your welcome, I'm from Cape Breton Island. 👍

[@brettbambey194]

how did you get the length of the horizontal bars that attach to the slides

[@tukocan]

Those pieces of metal I cut them slightly longer than the slides. Once everything was assembled I welded tabs on the front ends for the locking pins to go through. They should be no shorter than the slides for support but you can make them as long as you wish or available space allows you. I made mine as compact as possible because of space limitations in my Land Rover but if you have a pickup or the likes, you can make the drop slide larger to carry additional items. Good luck with your build.

[@jed2055]

Thanks for the video. there should be more like this but there isn't so big shout out for you. Do I detect an Irish background in your family?

[@tukocan]

Thank you very much and man your good to recognize the family background.

[@terrycunningham4350]

Great video. May I ask how or if you have a locking mechanism to hold the tray back up please

[@tukocan]

If you look at both plates that the sliders are mounted to, you'll see at the front there is an extension with a hole in it. There I use a locking pin to hold it in place when it's in the up position. A very simple solution that works.

[@synony6]

Great video!

[@tukocan]

Thank you, I hope that it helps you with yours.

[@markhealey4274]

thanks for the info will try something like this for mine cheers

[@tukocan]

Good luck and thanks.

[@joshw5135]

What size angle iron did you use? Thinking about 40mm?!

[@tukocan]

I'm guessing that it was 50mm, I can check tomorrow.

[@tukocan]

The base which bolts to a platform is 40mm wide and the height to accommodate the slide runners is 80mm. Hope that this helps, good luck with your build.

[@pepender]

thank you very much Sir,

[@tukocan]

Your welcome.

[@thomasblanch7161]

Thanks very very helpful 👍

[@tukocan]

Your welcome.

[@MonkeySpecs301]

genius, thanks.

[@tukocan]

Your welcome, good luck with your build.

[@MuzafarTarar]

Hatsoff

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@samhegney3515]

Yep, superstar...

[@tukocan]

Thank you.

[@자유인-n3f]

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