I recently purchased a used metal halide/T5 light fixture which I'd intended to mount over a frag tank underneath a cupboard in our laundry room. There isn't wuite the amount of room betwwn the light and the tank so I'm thinking I want to put it on retractable rails of some type so I can move it back out of the way when I wnat to service the tank, take pictures, etc.

I'm having a tough time finding the extending rails, that need to mount underneath the cabinet, allowing for the light to retract.

I'm looking for suggestions from anyone who might have done a similar thing in a canopy or otherwise. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

How about 6 or 12 inch drawer slides, for kitchen drawers? Mount one or two under the cabinet bottom, the stationary half to the cabinet, the moving half to the light.

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Hey mark. Thanks for the suggestion. As the mounting required the clearance over a lip, I wound up buying a couple of extendable hangar rods and then drilling holes through to allow the light to slide forward and back. Works awesome.

Take care,

Mark