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Abstract

Slide mounting tools are disclosed, including a magnetic slide mounting tool having at least one magnet for mounting a slide to a surface. In one embodiment, a first section of a slide can be magnetically coupled to the slide mounting tool and installed on a stationary component. In one embodiment, at least one magnet is oriented substantially vertically on the slide mounting tool for magnetic coupling with the first section of the slide during installation of the section on edge against a vertical surface. The magnetic mounting tool thus allows, for the first time, a user to not only magnetically couple a stationary component section of virtually any type of slide to a stationary component, but provides a design that allows an extension slide to be extended while clamped to the stationary component, thus allowing a single user to align, clamp, extend and install a stationary component section of a slide without any outside assistance. A non-magnetic slide mounting tool having a first substantially vertical surface clampable to a stationary component, the non-magnetic slide mounting tool further having a second substantially vertical surface perpendicular to the first substantially vertical surface is also disclosed. The non-magnetic mounting tools also allows, for the first time, a single user to align and install moving component sections, as well as stationary component sections of slides without any outside assistance.

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