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This is an 18 inch side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Knape and Vogt's 8655 series, rated 140 lb per pair, with over-travel that pushes the drawer 1 inch past full extension and an integrated soft-close damper that settles it shut quietly.
Over-travel is the right choice when the drawer opening sits behind something — a countertop overhang, a thick face frame, or a raised toe kick assembly — that stops a standard full-extension slide before the back of the drawer is truly accessible. This slide travels 1 inch past its nominal length, which is enough to bring the rear of the drawer into full view and reach. In a kitchen with a deep countertop lip, a workshop cabinet under a protruding worksurface, or any install where the drawer front retracts behind an obstruction, that extra inch is the practical difference between digging blind and seeing the whole drawer. The 140 lb rating supports use cases beyond a typical utensil drawer: a loaded tool drawer, a heavy cutlery tray, or a pull-out that holds bottles or canned goods stays well within spec.
The slide members are cold-formed steel with a bright zinc finish — the standard protective coating for side-mount ball bearing slides in indoor cabinet work. Zinc is a functional finish: it resists corrosion in dry interior environments and keeps the steel members protected through repeated open-close cycles without adding bulk or color that competes with the cabinet box. These slides are sold in bulk packaging, which suits cabinet shops ordering across a project rather than pulling from retail packs one pair at a time.
The 8655 series targets installers and cabinet builders who need soft-close and over-travel together at a capacity above the standard kitchen class. A 100 lb slide handles most kitchen drawers, but when contents are dense — hardwood accessories, full spice collections, heavy cookware organizers — stepping to 140 lb per pair removes the guesswork. This is also the right slide for renovations where the opening is already built and the countertop overhang is fixed: the 1 inch over-travel works around the constraint rather than requiring a cabinet modification. The non-handed design and 1/2 inch clearance mean the slide drops into a standard side-mount install without recalculating the drawer box width.
It is a true damper — soft-close means the drawer is slowed and settled shut quietly. It is not a self-close spring that simply pulls the drawer closed without damping.
The over-travel distance on this slide is 1 inch past full extension. That is the drawer member traveling 1 inch beyond the slide's nominal 18 inch length at full open.
No. The slide is non-handed — both pieces in the pair are identical and either fits either side of the drawer box.
Side-mount slides need rear support in face-frame cabinets because the cabinet side is set back from the face frame. Add the matching rear mounting brackets, sold separately, for a face-frame install. Brackets are series-specific.
Bulk-Pack means the slides ship loose in a carton rather than in retail polybags — the format most shops prefer when ordering across a full project rather than one pair at a time.
When the drawer sits behind an overhang and the load runs above average, this 18 inch over-travel soft-close slide handles both problems at once — 1 inch of extra travel clears the obstruction, and 140 lb of capacity per pair keeps the drawer tracking smoothly however it is loaded.
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