Zinc Over-Travel Ball Bearing Slide For Deep Drawers Under Worktops

The Knape and Vogt 8405 series is a 26 inch side-mount ball bearing drawer slide in a zinc finish, rated 100 lb per pair, with 1 inch of over-travel beyond full extension. The hold-in anti-rebound detent keeps the drawer firmly closed until pulled. It ships as a bulk-pack pair for shop and cabinet production environments.

Key Features

• 1 inch over-travel carries the drawer past the cabinet face, clearing countertop overhangs and deep face frames.
• 100 lb load rating per pair handles a fully loaded utility or storage drawer at this 26 inch length.
• Hold-in anti-rebound detent stops the drawer from bouncing back open after a firm close — no spring, no damper, just a positive stay-closed catch.
• Non-handed design means both slides in the pair are identical, so there is no left-right sorting during installation.
• Steel ball bearings in full-length raceways deliver smooth, consistent travel even under load.
• Bulk-Pack packaging ships the slides loose in a carton, suited to production shops ordering in volume.

Where Over-Travel Changes the Install

A standard full-extension slide stops at the cabinet face. The 8405's 1 inch of over-travel pushes the drawer member past that point, so a drawer sitting under a countertop overhang or behind a deep face frame still clears far enough to reach the rear contents. At 26 inches, this slide suits deep base cabinet drawers, shop bench drawers, and utility storage where the extra travel is the difference between a useful drawer and a frustrating one. The hold-in detent keeps the loaded drawer shut when it matters — in a busy shop or on a job site where bumping a cabinet door is routine.

Material and Finish

The slide members are cold-formed steel with a zinc finish — the working standard for indoor side-mount ball bearing slides. Zinc plating protects the steel through years of daily cycling in a dry interior environment. It is a functional finish, largely hidden beside the open drawer box, not a decorative one. This is an indoor slide; zinc plating is not rated for wet, exterior, or high-humidity environments.

Who Reaches for the 8405 Series

Cabinet shops and contractors running production work on base cabinets appreciate the bulk-pack format and the non-handed design — no slowing down to sort left from right. The 26 inch length fits the deeper base cabinet drawers common in kitchen and shop installs, and the over-travel spec makes it the right call wherever the drawer opening sits behind an overhang. Designers specifying handle-less kitchens with a thick countertop overhang, and shops building bench drawers under a tool ledge, will find the 1 inch extension gain solves a real problem without stepping up to a specialty slide.

The Right Slide When the Opening Is Tight on Space

When a countertop overhang or a deep face frame steals reach from a standard full-extension slide, 1 inch of over-travel restores it. The KV 8405 in zinc delivers that extra travel at the 100 lb class rating, in a non-handed bulk-pack format built for production volume.