Bainbridge Spacers, Black, 3602BK-22

Black Nylon Spacers for Drawer Slide Alignment and Offset

These rectangular 1 inch black nylon spacers from Bainbridge Manufacturing give installers a clean, screw-on way to shift a drawer slide inward or outward from the cabinet wall, face frame, or stile — correcting depth mismatches and off-center openings without shimming or custom blocking.

Key Features

• 1 inch thickness creates a consistent, repeatable offset between the slide and the mounting surface, making it easy to standardize across multiple drawers.
• Heavy-duty nylon (polyamide) construction handles the compression forces of a loaded drawer without cracking, creeping, or corroding over time.
• Rectangular profile provides a stable, flat bearing surface so the slide sits square after installation.
• Screw-on mounting fastens through the spacer into the cabinet side or face-frame stile using standard installation screws.
• Matte Black finish blends into dark cabinet interiors and avoids the visual mismatch of a white or natural nylon part against black melamine or painted boxes.

Where These Spacers Solve Real Problems

The most common use is face-frame cabinets where the stile is too narrow, too deep, or simply set back from the slide's intended mounting plane. Dropping a 1 inch spacer between the stile and the slide member corrects that gap in a single step — no ripping down a wood shim, no fussing with multiple plies of cardboard. They also work inside frameless cabinets when a panel bows slightly or when a cabinet has been built with a non-standard interior width that pushes the slide out of the correct position for the drawer box. In production shops running face-frame lines, keeping a stock of these spacers on hand prevents the stop-and-solve problem that slows output when a cabinet comes off the clamp with a dimension that's slightly out.

Material and Finish

Nylon polyamide holds up under the repeated compression of drawers being opened and closed under load. It does not absorb moisture the way wood shims can, so the spacer thickness stays consistent after installation. The Matte Black color is molded through the material rather than painted on, which means scratches and screw-seat marks do not reveal a contrasting color underneath. For installations in dark interiors — black or dark gray melamine, painted cabinets, or commercial casework with dark box stock — the black spacer disappears where a white or almond version would stand out.

Who Reaches for These First

Cabinet shops and installers who work regular volume on face-frame lines keep these in the hardware bin alongside their slide stock. A 1 inch spacer covers the most common offset need without stacking multiple thinner pieces. Contractors retrofitting slides into existing casework find them equally useful: older cabinets rarely have perfectly square, properly dimensioned interiors, and a solid nylon spacer corrects those variations faster than custom woodwork. The black finish makes them a natural fit for commercial and contemporary residential projects where hardware visibility matters.

A Small Part That Keeps the Job Moving

One missing spacer at the right thickness can stall a drawer installation while someone hunts for a substitute. Stocking the Bainbridge 1 inch black nylon spacer means that offset is covered — in the right finish, at the right dimension, every time the situation calls for it.