I have a silverline metal filing cabinet. It only lets you open 1 drawer at a time.


wifey , Thursday, 12th of August 2010 06:23:18 AM

It only lets you open 1 drawer at a time. l opened a drawer and it wo not 
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close. Thus all the other drawers are locked shut. What do l do? 
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Lolli , Friday, 13th of August 2010 09:02:39 AM

If the drawer wont shut (and assuming it worked ok yesterday),  
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I would open the drawer all the way & remove it. Often there will be some  
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type of a latch or something on the side track that you have to move to  
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let it pull out completely, others just require you to lift the drawere  
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when you get to the stop to get past it. You may want to unload the drawer  
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before removing it, lots of papers would be quite heavy.  
Once the drawer is out, look to see if there is damage to the track,  
something hanging over the back of the drawer or something sticking up  
from the drawer below it that blocks you from pushing it in all the way.  
 
Depending on how the safety latch works, it may be possible to open the  
other drawers after this one is removed.  
 
Good comment T C  
 
 
 
 
 

LuLu , Saturday, 14th of August 2010 01:18:39 PM

its a safety feature, to keep it from falling over by only  
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allowing  
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1 drawer at a time to open  
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try clicking the drawer lock lever when closing it  
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CHICA , Sunday, 15th of August 2010 10:14:30 PM

The drawer lock is a safety feature, so I am not going to tell  
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you how to circumvent this….I don’t want to be reading about the  
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person who was suffocated after the cabinet fell on her ….  
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There is possibly something in the back of the drawer stopping it from  
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closing…… get a flashlight and take a look.  
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