I remember reading about someone who used EZ Slider Supersliders 1" to move her stand mixer around on the countertop. They aren't very expensive, so they might be worth a try. Otherwise, you might mount ball bearings on a cutting board to use as a moveable base.

Gregg - you should also post this question on the "Kitchen Discussions" Forum - you may get more responses. This is the 'Kitchen Table' forum and the name is a little misleading - it's primarily a conversational group.

Here's the Kitchen forum:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/kitchbath/?

There's a simple solution to that. I build several slide outs every month. Since it's located on counter, a side rail construction is the best method unless you don't mind a few screws mounted through the counter top surface.

Send me a message, along with a picture if you're interested in solutions.

what about those round furniture sliders?

When did it become not okay to post a question here?

You can post a question here, but sometimes other forums will get you a wider audience of people who have the answer.

My post above doesn't make sense because the post I was responding to was deleted.

graywings....makes sense to me. Letting people know about other forums is getting them more help. It's a good idea! You and marie were kind to suggest it!

Thanks to all for the suggestions--both for possible solutions an.d a better place to post my problem.

Gregg, just about any home improvement is possible, miracles take a day longer, but we get 'em done. :)

Gregg. my mixer weighs a ton too. And, it's about 1/16th inches too tall to slide back under my upper cabinets. I have ample room to leave it on a peninsula, but instead I have it on an Ikea butcher block rolling cart. It comes in and out of the kitchen where I have two places I can use it depending on what else is going on in the kitchen that day. Many days, it lives in the pantry/laundry room.

I have a heavy Kitchen Aid food processor too that I use more often than the mixer. It will slide back under a cabinet, so it does stay out where its visible ;0)

Gregg, I use a plastic flexible cutting mat under mine. Those cheap clear ones that you get at the dollar store. It takes up no room whatsoever and the mixer or coffee maker or anything else you need to move, easily slides.

If you use the cutting board idea, attach about 8 felt glides under it and it makes sliding a cinch.

morz8, does it have rubber feet? If so, opt for a thinner set of rubber feet (like a rubber washer) and it may fit under the cabinet.

Brushworks and others - I am also looking for a solution to moving my heavy Kitchen Aid mixer from a corner on the counter to an open space for easier use. I've thought about setting it on a pad or tray so I can move it, but am concerned that the motion of the mixer when beating will cause the pad to slide around. Has anyone had experience with this? I'm assuming, Brushworks, that a side rail setup would be more stable.

I use a dish drying mat. It slides very easy and protects the counter top also. You could fold it in half if you needed to. They make some really cute ones too

Thank you for the responses. However, some of you do not see the problem--it is that the counter is not deep enough to allow usage of the mixer, as it is only 5" beyond the front edge of the upper cabinet. There is not enough height in the storage area to allow for tipping the mixer up to be able to use it inside the cabinet. Thus I need to somehow slide the mixer out beyond the current edge of the counter, out from under the storage area in order to use it in that area. Of course the other alternative is to pick up the mixer and move it to another counter area when it is used, but that will be rather inconvenient. The cabinets are all ordered and are in the process of being installed, so some construction methods can still be done. The cabinet surface will be granite, extending back into the storage area, as we plan on cutting out the bottom rail and floor of the upper cabinet so that there is a continuous surface to slide on. So, gliders used in place of the rubber feet on the mixer would work IF the counter was deep enough. I hope this clarifies my situation.

I am actually posting the "heavy mixer slide out problem" on behalf of my daughter who is doing an extensive kitchen remodel. For the benefit of Stacey_mb and others who have suggested using furniture glides instead of rubber feet on the mixer, this is what my wife and I do with our KitchenAid mixer. It is stored in a corner garage and we are fortunate to have ample counter space it front of it. So, it is easy to slide out and we have no problem with the mixer moving while in use. We also do the same thing for a heavy Cuisinart food processor.

No pictures, but my dad and step-mother have a custom kitchen. Their big mixer is in it's own below counter cabinet. It has some sort of hinged thing that pulls out and makes it pop up to counter height for use. It folds back into place when you're done.

Since the bottom cabinet has drawers the full width, the Rev-a-shelf pop up is unfortunately not a possibility.

It really sounds like a new home needs to be found for the mixer. Use the garage cab for something else. How did an extensive remodel end up with only 5" of space in front of the cabinets is my question. It's pretty basic stuff to know an appliance garage needs to have room in front of it for the appliance to be used. The other solution might be to make an upper drawer of the base cabinet below a surface for the mixer. It would have to be pulled out and stepped down an inch or two but the top drawer could be reinforced with heavy duty glides and made into sort of a pullout platform/tabletop. I suppose it could possibly be customized to be level with the counter if you cut away the counter overhang in the area and didn't have an upper frame on the cabinet there.

I'd just put wood bracing on the outside of the cabinet, since there's no wood flange?...screw the rev-a-shelf to it and be done with it. ?? I know...there's something I'm missing.....it looks like an easy peasy installment to me....?

I would do what watchmelol suggested. Since the base cabinet consists of drawers they should sacrafice the top drawer and make it a reinforced, slide-out platform. A good cabinet maker can use the existing drawer front and turn it into a faux drawer front, so that it hides the platform until it's needed. It's a change the cabinet maker can probably do once the cabinets are in place. If they did not use a cabinet maker I'm sure they can find one locally that's willing to do the job.

Otherwise, have the base cabinet of drawers converted into an open cabinet (if it's wide enough), put a door on it and install the lift nicole posted. Not that difficult to do by a finish carpenter.

How many times a week does she use the mixer?