has anyone made their own sliding cooler mount?
 

was pricing a sliding cooler mount .. boy they are expensive. $150-$200

thought it may not be too hard to make one with stainless drawer slides. i want to keep a cooler under my leaning post, then slide it out when needed.

any ideas?

ohhh bsteckel - why not spend $30 install fixed mount hardware and move on. Is $200 really worth being able to slide a cooler 12 inches. You're gonna spend weeks trying to figure out how to save $100 again. Be careful when you start obsessing on these little projects . . . keep your eye on the prize and preserve your cash and energy for the necessary stuff. Park those time consuming unnecessary wallet shrinking projects for next season. Just get your boat ready and running.

draw slides, are you for real???:you: I have coolers with 200+ pound fish and ice, they slide around just fine!!!

Just get a cute girl to go out with you and have her get the drinks for you instead!

i usually have to figure ways to stop them from sliding

whatever you build, take pictures

well, i have the cute girl covered, maco. :love:

there was no way i would spend the $200 ... now getting a pair of slides on ebay for $20, that is another option.

the issue is that there is a lip under my leaning post where the cooler is to go. i am pretty strong, but i would not want to lift that cooler up over the lip multiple times a day with it full of ice.

there is just enough room under the leaning post for the cooler, not enough room to open the lid. this is where the slide feature comes in.

man .. with all the posts i read about building a bow pulpit, tackle storage locker, cutting board, lowering a bow rail, rear swim platform, i thought this project would rate a 1 on the difficulty scale.

will keep you posted if i develop anything. :beer:

Brad

I'm surprised too about the responses...rather than metal, have you thought of making rails of Starboard...surface-to-surface, that stuff is SLICK and would make excellent slides...how high is the "lip"?

Good luck w/it and let us know how it goes...

What about putting starboard under the cooler to bring it up almost level with the lip. It will slide right out without having to lift......but you would have to put a latch or something that would hold the cooler in while under way.
:beer:

Just brain stormin.

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Or if those are too high . . . Cut a small block of 1" thick starboard or UV resistant HDPE material into 4 L shaped corners and counter sink the screws. A 200lb cooler isn't going to bounce over the 1" high blocks.

Brad - Take a picture of lip. If the lip is really a bar on the leaning post . . . buy a smaller cooler or cut it off and the mount blocks. The project should be .000000001 on a scale of 1 to 10 . . . Don't over complicate the issue. K.I.S.S. sliding rails under a leaning posts is not a smart idea IMO. Mount the fixed blocks and move on!! No need to spend weeks on this problem.

thanks for all the replies.

shrimpin ... i already have those corner mounts with the bungee strap. will see if i could trim down the lip.

reelapeelin and randle ... like the idea of using the starboard sliding on itself.

will keep you posted on what i come up with (if anything). if you have any other ideas, keep em coming.


Brad