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This is a 26 inch full-extension side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Fulterer's FR 5000 series, rated 100 lb per pair. Its zinc finish is the standard working surface for indoor ball bearing slides — functional, durable, and at home in kitchen cabinets, shop drawers, utility carcasses, and anywhere the slide does its job out of sight beside the drawer box.
A 26 inch slide suits deep-cabinet applications: a full-depth base cabinet with a long pot-and-pan drawer, a shop storage unit with a deep utility drawer, or a workbench cabinet where tools live in the back half of the box. Full extension means the entire drawer comes clear of the cabinet opening, so nothing hides at the rear. That matters most when the drawer is deep and the contents are varied. Standard motion keeps the mechanics simple — there is no damper or spring to add resistance, so the drawer pulls cleanly with the load and stops where the hand leaves it.
The FR 5000 series is built from cold-formed steel with a zinc plated finish. Zinc plating protects the steel against everyday indoor humidity and contact without changing the slide's profile or adding measurable weight. It is not a decorative finish and it is not rated for outdoor, marine, or high-moisture environments — keep this slide indoors. The zinc surface will show handling marks under close inspection, but in service beside a drawer box it is essentially invisible. The slide's profile and its 1/2 inch clearance requirement stay consistent whether the finish is zinc or black, so a zinc version and a black version of the same length can be swapped in the same cabinet box opening.
Cabinet shops running production on frameless or face-frame boxes reach for this slide when the drawer is deep, the load is real, and the finish does not need to match a visible hardware scheme. The zinc tone disappears against light-colored cabinet interiors and reads as neutral in darker ones. Designers specifying utility rooms, pantries, or workshop cabinetry where the drawer front carries the visual weight will find the zinc a practical, non-competing surface. Contractors replacing worn slides in existing base cabinets appreciate that the non-handed design means one SKU covers both sides of every drawer. For face-frame cabinet installations, rear mounting brackets are required to support the back end of the slide — those brackets are sold separately and are series-specific, so confirm compatibility before ordering.
No. Twenty-six inches is the closed length of the slide. On a full-extension slide, travel is approximately the slide's nominal length, so the drawer box clears the cabinet opening completely — but the slide length and the travel are two separate figures, and the drawer box depth should be matched to the slide length, not the other way around.
No. The FR 5000 in this configuration is standard motion — steel ball bearings in full-length raceways, nothing more. The drawer will not self-close, soft-close, or eject. If the project needs damped closing or a stay-closed detent, look at the FR 5001 soft-close or the hold-in anti-rebound variants in the same FR 5000 family.
Build the drawer box 1 inch narrower than the cabinet opening to leave 1/2 inch of side clearance for each slide. The source data does not state a maximum recommended drawer width for this series; confirm with Fulterer's installation guide for drawers wider than 24 inches.
Yes. Side-mount ball bearing slides need support at the rear in face-frame construction because the cabinet side is set back from the face frame. Rear brackets for this series are sold separately; confirm that the brackets are rated for the FR 5000 before ordering.
Confirm the sold-as unit on the product listing before ordering; Fulterer slides in this segment are typically sold as a pair, but verify against the listing's pack quantity to be certain one order covers both sides of the drawer.
The Fulterer FR 5000 in zinc gives a deep cabinet drawer honest full-extension travel, a 100 lb rating, and a finish that does its job without drawing attention — so the focus stays on the work, not the hardware.
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