Zinc-Finished Ball Bearing Drawer Slide For Compact Drawers That Stay Closed

This is an 8 inch full-extension side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Knape & Vogt's 8400 series, rated 100 lb per pair, with a hold-in anti-rebound detent and a zinc finish. It is built for shallow drawers in cabinets, shop furniture, and utility casework where a short slide length is the right fit and the drawer needs to stay closed until pulled.

Key Features

• Full extension — the drawer member travels the full slide length, bringing the entire drawer box out to the cabinet face.
• Hold-in anti-rebound detent — a mechanical catch keeps the drawer closed and prevents it from bouncing back open when pushed shut firmly.
• 100 lb load rating per pair — handles a fully loaded compact drawer without flexing.
• Non-handed design — both slides in the pair are identical; no left/right sorting required at install.
• Ball bearing construction on steel members — smooth, consistent travel through thousands of open-close cycles.
• Zinc finish — functional indoor corrosion protection on the steel members.

Where an 8 Inch Slide Earns Its Place

An 8 inch slide length suits shallow drawers in small cabinets, drawer stacks with limited interior depth, and shop carts where the drawer is meant to hold tools, small parts, or hardware trays rather than deep storage. The full-extension travel means the entire drawer clears the opening, so nothing at the back of a shallow box gets buried. The hold-in anti-rebound detent is especially useful in workshop and utility settings: push the drawer home and it stays there, even with vibration nearby or a firm close.

Steel, Zinc, and Straightforward Construction

The slide members are cold-formed steel with a zinc electroplate finish. Zinc is the working standard for side-mount ball bearing slides in interior applications — it protects the steel through daily cycling without adding visual weight. These slides sit beside the open drawer box and are not concealed, so the finish is functional rather than decorative. The 8400 series is KV's volume side-mount line, built to the 32mm hole pattern for direct mounting in frameless cabinets and compatible with KV rear brackets for face-frame work.

Who This Slide Is For

Cabinet shops and joiners building compact drawer stacks, shop cart drawers, and small utility cabinets will find the 8 inch length covers the depth classes that longer slides do not. With a 100 lb pair rating and full-extension travel, it handles hardware trays, small-parts organizers, and shallow kitchen drawers without stepping down to an economy roller slide. The poly-pack format — one pair per bag — suits project-quantity ordering as well as single-drawer replacements. The non-handed design means both slides come out of the bag ready to install on either side.

A Short Slide That Finishes the Job

The KV 8400 series 8 inch slide covers the compact drawer applications that larger sizes skip over — full extension, a stay-closed detent, and a 100 lb pair rating in the length most needed for shallow casework and shop drawers.