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The Knape and Vogt 6500 series is a full-extension side-mount ball bearing file drawer slide rated 125 lb per pair, built for file drawers, heavy office storage, and work drawers where a standard 100 lb cabinet slide comes up short. This 16 inch version is the right length for shallower cabinets and compact lateral file units that still need a real load rating.
A compact lateral file or a short-depth pedestal is where the 16 inch 6500 series fits best. The cabinet may be smaller, but the drawer contents — hanging files, boxed supplies, stacked binders — add up fast. The 125 lb per pair rating gives that compact drawer the same working margin a full-depth file unit gets from a longer, heavier slide. It is also a practical choice for shop drawers holding tooling, hardware bins, or sample boards where a standard kitchen-class slide would be undersized and a heavy-duty industrial slide would be overbuilt.
The 6500 series is formed steel with a zinc finish, the standard for side-mount ball bearing slides used in dry indoor environments. The zinc protects the steel through years of daily cycling in an office, shop, or cabinet shop environment. It is a functional finish on a slide that sits beside the drawer box — visible when the drawer is open, but not a decorative choice. Motion technology is standard: no soft-close, no self-close, and no detent. The drawer stops where it is left, which suits applications where a closing feature would interfere or simply is not needed.
Cabinet shops building compact lateral file pedestals, office furniture manufacturers, and contractors retrofitting shorter-depth storage units all benefit from a 16 inch slide that steps past the 100 lb class. The 6500 series is also the right call when the drawer box is already built to a 16 inch nominal depth and the job calls for full extension at a capacity the standard cabinet line cannot cover. The Bulk-Pack format suits volume installs: order the quantity the job requires without paying retail packaging markups.
No. 16 inches is the closed length of the slide. Because this is a full-extension slide, the drawer member travels approximately the full slide length, bringing the entire drawer clear of the cabinet face — but slide length and travel distance are two separate figures. The cabinet interior depth must accommodate the 16 inch slide plus any rear clearance.
Standard kitchen and cabinet ball bearing slides in this catalog are rated in the 100 lb class per pair. The 6500 series at 125 lb per pair gives you a meaningful step up — useful when the drawer contents are dense or when the application is a file drawer that will be loaded consistently.
Neither. The 6500 series is a standard-motion slide — no damper and no spring. The drawer stays wherever it is left. If soft-close is required for the same application, look at the KV FM soft-close series in the same load class.
No. The 6500 series is non-handed, so the same slide fits both sides of the drawer. Order one pair per drawer.
The 6500 series requires 1/2 inch of clearance per side. Build the drawer box 1 inch narrower than the cabinet opening to leave the correct gap for each slide. In face-frame cabinets, rear mounting brackets are required at the back of the slide — these are sold separately and are series-specific.
When the cabinet is shorter but the contents are not lighter, the 16 inch 6500 series delivers the load rating and full access a real file drawer demands — in a non-handed, full-extension slide that installs on standard 1/2 inch side clearance.
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