Overland Drawer Build TACOMA- Pic Heavy

[Whiteout]

So there’s two halves of my thread on this as I posted my build in the general discussion area and it turns out there’s a DYI section on OLB that I didn’t know about. Here’s a link to the other thread with almost everything I used. If you build a drawer let me know! Thanks

Dave
https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/overland-camping-drawer-photo-heavy.16021/page-2

Thanks and will do. Mine would go in my 2016 F150 DD.

 

[alexthed]

This is great! I'm going to do something like this on one side, and another smaller one on the other side for my solar gear, thanks for the inspiration

 

[John Bishop]

I joined this past weekend, so I'm doing what feel like a lot of "catch up" browsing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this thread. I have a '16 access cab long bed Taco, so I'm likely to steal some of your ideas.
I also have the Diamondback cover and love it! I was curious to see how you made it all work.

 

[PapaDave]

I joined this past weekend, so I'm doing what feel like a lot of "catch up" browsing.
I thoroughly enjoyed this thread. I have a '16 access cab long bed Taco, so I'm likely to steal some of your ideas.
I also have the Diamondback cover and love it! I was curious to see how you made it all work.

Welcome to OLB, I just got home from an awesome OLB trip to the Mojave desert with about 13 rigs, so much fun. Yeah steal any ideas, Tacoma’s are such great platforms for Overlanding with

 

[underdog493]

I know you have since upgraded to 80/20 version of your setup. Can you give an update on how it was holding up when you sold it? I plan on building one for myself and I am concerned if it will be sturdy long term.

 

[PapaDave]

I know you have since upgraded to 80/20 version of your setup. Can you give an update on how it was holding up when you sold it? I plan on building one for myself and I am concerned if it will be sturdy long term.

It held up great and had no issues whatsoever. I sold it to a guy who lives nearby and have not heard anything negative from him since, half-inch ply is plenty for that build. So I say go for it :-)

 

[underdog493]

I know you have since upgraded to 80/20 version of your setup. Can you give an update on how it was holding up when you sold it? I plan on building one for myself and I am concerned if it will be sturdy long term.

It held up great and had no issues whatsoever. I sold it to a guy who lives nearby and have not heard anything negative from him since, half-inch ply is plenty for that build. So I say go for it :-)

Thank you for the info! I got my boards yesterday and got the big cuts made in the store for free, I plan on doing the rest of it this weekend. I have my big drawer slides already so at this point I just need the “little” hardware to get it built!

 

[PapaDave]

Thank you for the info! I got my boards yesterday and got the big cuts made in the store for free, I plan on doing the rest of it this weekend. I have my big drawer slides already so at this point I just need the “little” hardware to get it built!

That’s awesome! Have fun with the build and I’m sure you know but take extra care in making everything as square as possible. Cabinets live and die off of being square square square. It will make mounting the slides and drawers go smoothly and in turn operate smoothly. I glued and nailed all my joints and it worked really well btw

have fun!