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This is an 18 inch side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Knape and Vogt's 8605 series, rated 140 lb per pair, with 1 inch of over-travel that carries the drawer past the cabinet face. It arrives in a bulk pack, zinc finished, and fits either side of the drawer without sorting.
A standard full-extension slide brings the drawer to the cabinet face and stops there. The 8605 goes one inch further. Under a countertop overhang — a thick stone top, a deep face frame, or a toe-kick that shifts the cabinet back — that extra inch is what puts the rear of the drawer within reach instead of behind an obstacle. The same travel advantage applies to shop drawers under a workbench top and kitchen base cabinets with a thick edge profile. The 140 lb per pair rating means the drawer can carry the kind of load that actually makes rear access matter: cast iron, hand tools, heavy cookware, or packed files.
The 8605 series is built from steel with a zinc plate finish — the workhorse material and finish combination that covers the great majority of indoor side-mount installations. Zinc plating protects the steel members through years of daily cycling in a dry interior environment. The finish sits beside the drawer box, mostly out of sight when the drawer is closed, and does its job without drawing attention. This is an indoor slide; for wet, washdown, or high-humidity environments, a stainless or epoxy-coated option is the right call.
Cabinet shops building base cabinets under thick stone tops will find the over-travel here solves the overhang problem without a custom solution. Contractors and remodelers fitting drawers into face-frame kitchens with generous rail widths get the same benefit. The 140 lb rating puts this slide in reach of shop and garage drawer builds where standard cabinet slides are borderline. The bulk-pack format suits production volume — order by the carton, pull pairs as needed, and keep the bench moving. The 1/2 inch side clearance matches what most shops already build to, so no special drawer box sizing is required.
No. 18 inches is the closed length of the slide. Because this is an over-travel model, the drawer member extends the full 18 inch nominal length plus one additional inch — so the drawer travels approximately 19 inches from closed to fully open.
The 140 lb rating is per pair of slides, meaning the combined capacity of both slides supporting one drawer. It is the figure to compare against your estimated loaded drawer weight — not a per-slide number to be doubled.
No. The 8605 series uses standard motion — no damper, no spring, and no detent. The drawer rides freely on ball bearings and stays wherever it is left. If a closing feature is needed, it would require a different slide.
No. The design is non-handed, so both slides in a pair are identical. Order the quantity of slides your drawer count requires without worrying about matching handed pairs.
In a face-frame cabinet, the back end of the slide needs support. Rear mounting brackets are required and are sold separately; use brackets matched to the 8605 series rather than generic hardware.
The KV 8605 series in zinc delivers a straightforward answer to a common problem: a drawer that needs to clear what is above it and carry real weight doing it. One inch of over-travel, a 140 lb pair rating, and a standard 1/2 inch clearance keep the install familiar while solving what a standard slide cannot.
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