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This is a round nylon spacer from Bainbridge Manufacturing, 1/16 inch thick, used to fine-tune drawer slide positioning and fill small gaps in drawer slide installations. Sold 1,000 per box, it is a stock item for production cabinet shops that need a reliable supply on hand.
Drawer slide installations rarely land perfectly flat on the first screw. Cabinet sides vary slightly in thickness, frameless panels pick up tolerance stack from the line-bore process, and face-frame cabinets can have inconsistent reveals that push a slide out of square. A 1/16 inch spacer is the corrective increment for those small but real misalignments. It sits between the slide mounting point and the cabinet surface, shifting the slide outward just enough to bring it into parallel with its pair, level a front locking device, or account for a panel that came in slightly under thickness. At 1/16 inch, this is the go-to shim when a 1/8 inch spacer is too much and nothing is too little.
Nylon polyamide holds its dimension under the clamping load of a driven screw, which matters because a spacer that compresses or creeps will let the slide drift over time. It does not absorb moisture the way a wood shim would, so the correction stays consistent through seasonal humidity changes in a shop or an installed kitchen. The round form factor, combined with nylon's smooth surface, makes it easy to thread onto a screw during installation without fumbling — a small thing that adds up across a day of hanging slides.
Production cabinet shops are the primary buyer: a box of 1,000 goes on the install cart and gets drawn down steadily across jobs without a second thought. Installers working on site also find value in carrying a supply, since field corrections to cabinet slide positioning are common and a missing spacer of the right thickness causes delays. The 1/16 inch size specifically appeals to shops running undermount or side-mount slides where tight tolerance work is the standard and the margin for error is narrow.
It sits between the slide's mounting flange and the cabinet surface, held in place by the mounting screw that passes through it. The 1/16 inch thickness pushes the slide away from the surface by that amount, correcting small alignment gaps without shimming the full panel.
Yes. Nylon does not swell, rot, or corrode, which makes it more stable than a wood shim in environments with humidity variation. It holds its thickness and keeps the slide in position.
The spacer is a generic round shim — it works with any slide whose mounting screw can pass through the center hole. It is not engineered to a specific slide brand or series.
Use the 1/16 inch when a thicker spacer would overcorrect the gap or create a new alignment problem on the opposite side. It is the fine-tuning option in the set, not the primary gap-filler for larger offsets.
A box of 1,000 means the 1/16 inch spacer is always within reach during a run of installs, which is the only way a small part like this actually saves time rather than costing it.
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