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Fed up with soft close drawers that fight back? Below is a tool-light plan that keeps the whisper-shut bonus but slashes pull-force by half. Follow the checklist and every soft close drawer in the house will glide like silk—yet still hush closed when you're done.

If your soft-close drawer suddenly slams like a freight train, the cure is usually a 5 mm plastic nub that slipped backward. This walkthrough shows you where to poke, push and click so the soft close drawer slider whispers shut again.

Stop the slam! For the price of a pizza you can clip a tiny piston onto the drawer slides you already own. No new runners, no new holes in the bank account—just hush-hush drawers from tonight onward. Below I unpack the whole job in eight quick steps, sprinkle in pro tips and give you a printable checklist so you don't wander the hardware store wondering which bracket is which.