Knape & Vogt 8455 Series Ball Bearing Slide for Drawers That Outlast the Cabinet Finish

This is a 16 inch side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Knape & Vogt's 8455 series, rated 90 lb per pair, with integrated soft-close damping and 1 inch of over-travel past full extension. The zinc finish is the segment's working standard: corrosion-resistant for indoor cabinetry, unobtrusive beside an open drawer box, and consistent across every slide in a bulk-pack run.

Key Features

• Zinc finish provides standard indoor corrosion resistance and a neutral appearance that reads as hardware, not decor.
• Integrated soft-close damping catches the drawer near the end of travel and settles it shut without noise or slam.
• 1 inch of over-travel carries the drawer past full extension so the rear contents clear a countertop overhang or a deep face frame.
• 90 lb rating per pair covers a fully loaded kitchen, office, or utility drawer.
• Non-handed design means both slides in the pair are identical — no left/right sorting on the bench.
• Bulk-Pack packaging suits cabinet shops and contractors running multiple drawers from a single order.

Where the Over-Travel Does Real Work

A standard full-extension slide stops at the cabinet face. The 8455's 1 inch of over-travel pushes the drawer past that point, which matters in two common situations: a drawer installed beneath a countertop overhang, where the extra inch clears the lip and exposes the back of the box; and a drawer in a deep face-frame cabinet, where the frame eats into the opening and a plain full-extension slide would leave the rear of the drawer inaccessible. In both cases the soft-close works over the full closing travel, not just at the end of the nominal slide length, so the damped close functions correctly at any point along the extended range.

Steel Construction, Zinc Finish

The slide members are formed steel with a zinc electroplate finish. Zinc is the practical choice for enclosed indoor cabinetry: it resists the moisture fluctuations of a kitchen or utility space without the cost premium of a decorative or specialty finish. The finish is consistent from slide to slide in a bulk pack, so a run of matching drawers comes out uniform. This is an indoor finish; it is not rated for exterior or high-humidity washdown environments.

Volume Installs and the Shop That Runs Them

The Bulk-Pack format is aimed at cabinet shops, millwork operations, and contractors who measure drawer counts in dozens rather than ones. The 16 inch slide length suits standard base cabinet drawer boxes in the 15 to 16 inch depth range. At 1/2 inch of side clearance per side, the drawer box is built 1 inch narrower than the cabinet opening — the same formula as every other standard side-mount ball bearing slide in this class. In face-frame cabinets, rear mounting brackets are required to support the back end of the slide; those brackets are sold separately and are series-specific, so confirm the bracket match before the install day.

A Slide That Finishes the Job Quietly

The 8455 in zinc delivers over-travel reach and soft-close damping in the finish that works in any production cabinet run — bulk-packed for the shop that needs both features and doesn't want to count slides one at a time.