I want to retrofit my IKEA kitchen with those soft-closing buffers that 
B&Q sell, but I need to get the drawers out to drill the holes to take
them and I cannot see how to release the drawer stop mechanism on the 
runners.  I've tried lifting the drawers as I pull them out, and felt 
around for any latch release buttons or levers, but no luck.  Can anyone 
help?

The kitchen's around 6 months old, silver-coloured/metal sided drawer 
boxes, Blum runners, if that helps.  Sadly I no longer have the assembly 
instructions.

TIA

-- 
Tony

Ikea do the soft closing buffers and I reckon they will be alot easier to 
install than trying to retro fit.
The draws do come out you just pull all the way out then lift slightly up. 
Sometimes it is a bit hard, just been taking the draws out of my Ikea 
kitchen.
"Tony Eva" <x@y.z> wrote in message news:3f891vF6gpsoU1@individual.net...

>I want to retrofit my IKEA kitchen with those soft-closing buffers that B&Q 
>sell, but I need to get the drawers out to drill the holes to take
> them and I cannot see how to release the drawer stop mechanism on the 
> runners.  I've tried lifting the drawers as I pull them out, and felt 
> around for any latch release buttons or levers, but no luck.  Can anyone 
> help?
>
> The kitchen's around 6 months old, silver-coloured/metal sided drawer 
> boxes, Blum runners, if that helps.  Sadly I no longer have the assembly 
> instructions.
>
> TIA
>
> -- 
> Tony 

Oliver wrote:

> Ikea do the soft closing buffers and I reckon they will be alot easier to 
> install than trying to retro fit.


Do you know if IKEA will sell the buffers separately?  (Though fitting 
the B&Q ones is easy enough, it just needs a (straight) hole in the 
carcase edge deep enough to take the pneumatic cylinder.)


> The draws do come out you just pull all the way out then lift slightly up. 


Thanks, that gave me the confidence to use the necessary welly and they 
came out fine.  Just needed to know that I was doing the right thing...

-- 
Tony