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The Knape and Vogt 6500 series is a 14 inch full-extension side-mount ball bearing drawer slide rated 125 lb per pair, stepping up in load capacity from the standard 100 lb cabinet class to handle short but heavily loaded file and storage drawers.
Most short drawers are light drawers — but not always. Pedestal file cabinets, shop tool drawers, hardware storage, and shallow undercounter boxes can pack a surprising amount of weight into a 14 inch depth. A standard 100 lb cabinet slide covers the typical kitchen drawer, but a drawer filled with hanging file folders, heavy tools, or dense stock parts can push past that ceiling quickly. The 6500 series at 125 lb per pair gives those shallow, heavy-duty applications the load margin they need without requiring a longer slide to reach the rating.
The slide is formed from steel and finished in zinc, the segment's standard for indoor corrosion resistance. Zinc is a working finish on a slide that sits beside the drawer box — protected through years of service but not a decorative surface. This is an indoor slide; the zinc finish is not rated for wet, damp, or exterior environments.
Cabinet shops running shallow pedestal or lateral file bases, contractors fitting undersink or undercounter storage, and office furniture builders specifying dense file drawers are the natural buyers for this SKU. The 14 inch length also suits replacement work: when an existing pedestal file's slides wear out, the 6500 series drops into the same space with a load capacity the original may not have had. This slide ships in a bulk pack, which makes it practical for production runs rather than single-drawer retail installs. The non-handed design means one part number covers both sides of every drawer in the job.
No. 14 inches is the closed length of the slide. Because this is a full-extension slide, the drawer member travels the full slide length and brings the entire drawer out to the cabinet face — but travel and slide length are two separate specs.
Per pair. One pair of slides — one on each side of the drawer — carries 125 lb total. Do not double the number by counting each slide individually.
Neither. The 6500 series uses standard motion: no damper, no spring, no detent. The drawer stays wherever it is positioned.
No. The slide is non-handed — both slides in a pair are identical and fit either side of the drawer without modification.
Bulk-pack means the slides are packed loose in a carton rather than in individual retail bags. It is the practical format for production cabinet work and multi-drawer jobs.
It can, but face-frame construction sets the cabinet side back from the front frame, so the rear of the slide needs support. Add the appropriate series rear mounting brackets — these are sold separately and are series-specific.
When the cabinet is shallow and the drawer is heavy, the 6500 series covers the combination that a standard cabinet slide cannot — full extension at 125 lb in a 14 inch format built for production volume.
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