Q: Avoiding drawer slides screw collisions in center divider?

[Von]

My shop cabinet which is going to have pairs of symmetric drawers side-by-side separated by a piece of 3/4" plywood. I started installing the slides in the carcass today when I realized the 1/2" screws were going to collide in the center plywood. I tried to convince myself I could use different holes on the slides to avoid collisions, but couldn't quite convince myself.

I ended up offsetting the slides vertically as you see in the photo below. My drawers are 6"+ tall, so I don't expect a 1/2" shift will cause a problem but it does complicate things a little as I will have to keep this in mind installing the slides in the boxes.

Is there some more elegant way I should handle this?

TIA

 

 

[BillyJack]

We don’t offset, we just use different holes on each drawer guide..

[BillyJack]

In commercial , unless you have CNC, we will! use a right/left pattern for the  center 5 1/4 partition on the center..